Bettia

Patti, great tute. I have wanted to do this for a while. Maybe I will try it on my baby blanket I am making.

rwehavingfunyet

Thanks for the tutorial. It certainly has cleared up some questions that I had and you did such a wonderful job with it.

juneayerza

Thanks for posting this. I've wanted to try trapunto but I didn't like the method I had seen before. This seems so much easier and faster.

Janquiltz

Great tutorial. Lots easier using water solutable thread than the way I did it. I did the entire technique by hand quilting - only I attached the trapunto batting by basting outside the design lines - then trimmed down the extra batting, sandwiched my little quilt and hand quilted the design. Removed the basting before I did the background quilting, and finished the quilt as usual.

LOL - so true about forgetting you are using water soluable thread - Sharon Shamber explained how she had mistakenly used water soluable on a large portion of one of her show quilts and didn't discover it until she finished the quilt and washed it. Forget which one of her glorious quilts she did that on, and, of course, she had/has the skill to fix the problem so that no one would ever know - but just goes to show you that even the "pros" can make a mistake.

BTW - back about 5-6 +/- years ago, I saw this same technique given in a quilting magazine. They did a neckline treatment (simple flowers and leaves ?) on a plain white cotton knit ladies scoop-neck tee shirt. Sure was pretty - Hmmm - might have to get brave and go in to my ""catch hell" room and go through my 3-ring notebooks as I probably kept the directions in with other patterns of my "someday" quilts and techniques I want to try. I don't say that I am a pack rat - but I do have a tendancy to "save" things that I may want/need to use one day.

tothenci

Thanks for tutorial!
Hear is my "trapunto". It is a simple version.

sandpat

Enci....that is Fabulous!!!! I just love Trapunto! I hope we get some converts to this technique through this tute. Ya'll thanks too for adding your extra tips...they are always welcome!

And YES...PROMINENTLY MARK your Water Soluable thread so that you don't mix it up. I keep mine in the original package unless its on my machine. And licking the end before threading your needle is really not a good idea...:lol:

tothenci

I do not use Water Soluable thread, but I use vinyl thread, just sew around the sample (on a thin paper!), and rip the paper.
Then I stipling the extra area. I called it a false trapunto.I have o lot of "trapunto" sample. If you ask, I will send as is only to be!(I do not English!) I hope you understand what I wanted to write!
Enci

Quilter7x

I'm definitely going to try this, it looks really easy and I love doing anything by machine. Thanks Patti! :thumbup:

knlsmith

I agree 100% If I can't do something mostly by machine, it probably isn't gonna happen. LOL :)

MadQuilter

Great tute, Patti. I learned the same technique in my class as you showed EXCEPT we used washable thread in the bobbin too - so we would not have any threads in the mix. Here is what I did for the bobbin with the washable thread on it:

I used a black Sharpie and wrote a "W" on it all over the bobbin both sides so I would NOT confuse it with regular thread bobbins.