Watson

After doing most of the quilting on this wallhanging, it has occurred to me that I should have done the inner circles with double batting to make them stand out more.
In the spirit of better late than never...Is it too late to use a trapunto technique at this point? Is there even a technique that is used, once you've already done the quilting? Can you even fill a circle like that? I know nothing about trapunto and I will do some research, but thought I'd ask here for opinions, first.
Here's a pic, to give you an idea what I'm talking about....
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Thanks, Watson

feline fanatic

There are a couple of old fashioned trapunto techniques you could use. One involves cutting a slit in your backing and stuffing the area from behind. You would then need to sew up your slit and applique a backing fabric to cover up the slit.

The other method is usually used for very small areas and would be very hard to do with a tightly woven batik. So I don't think you could use it here. It involves using a large needle or small awl and working apart the warp and weft threads in one area to form a little hole. Then shoving yarn in through the hold to stuff the area. Once the area is stuffed you carefully work the end of the yarn in and work those warp and weft threads back together to close the hole.

Quite honestly, with the way your project looks now, I think I would consider this a "hindsight is 20/20" moment and move on without trapunto.

QuiltnNan

exactly what ff said.

Bree123

Very pretty quilt!

I have an idea, but it's pretty out of the box...

Assuming you have enough fabric to create appliqué circles that match the existing circles, you could do a wider seam allowance of 3/8-1/2" and glue/adhere a piece of batting to the back of each one (or buy fusible batting). Batting needs to be the size of existing circle; it's just the fabric that's larger to wrap around the edges & tuck underneath. Then, you could appliqué that on top of the existing circles. Typically, the area (ring) around the outside of the trapunto would be densely quilted to further flatten that batting, creating more of a contrast in height of the batting.

That said, it would be a fair amount of work to cut all those circles (some pieced) and notch around the edges & then appliqué it down -- and possibly do additional microquilting. I'd maybe consider a pretty embroidery or motif quilting design to go in the center of the circles instead.

MadQuilter

Since your circles are already quilted down, I am not sure how you would get a clean trapunto circle even using the back insert method. You would need to sew down the area where the trapunto batting is contained and I don't see that happening here. Your quilt is pretty as is.

bearisgray

If your center circles are unquilted - you could maybe slash them and insert some "fill" - and then applique over the slashes.

I think it's great as is - but this might work.

bjchad

If this were not a wall hanging, I might try one of the trapunto methods mentioned but at this point I'd be worried it would not hang well if I tried it now.

carolynjo

Since you have already quilted the piece, I'd leave it as is and try trapunto on another piece.

kat13

I don't see why you can't take out part of the seam and then using the batting that is used for puff quilts, comes in a bag and pull out small portions and stuff it into the circle. I only saw stitches around the circle so if the center has no stitches you should be able to stuff it and then resew that opened section.

SherB

I like the idea of embroidering something in the center of the circles, IF they really need anything at all. If you are set on adding additional batting, I think kat13 or bearisgray's trapunto ideas would be the easiest. However, with that said, I think your quilt looks great already.