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August 27, 2013 By Mandy 3 Comments

Tree of Life–Work in Progress

A while back, I had written about the quilt commission I had for a tree of life, where I planned to use Rose Hughes’s Fast Piece Applique technique.  In that time, though, I realized that I had envisioned it as a *really* raw edge applique, to be completed on my longarm rather than on my domestic machine.  This would cut down on the cost for my customer, which was a bonus, and I would get to play with lots of fun quilting.  Instead of sewing the applique pieces together first, I used a very thin line of glue to keep them together (like the Sharon Schamber method for binding I used last week), and then built the tree.

TOL-start1 TOL-start2

 

TOL-trunk

 

TOL-partial

Things are really moving along! All my fabric has arrived, finally, and I hope to get this up and on the frame by the end of the week.

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Filed Under: Applique, Tree of Life Quilt, Works in Progress

Comments

  1. Sherri Lynn Wood (@daintytime) says

    October 11, 2013 at 2:03 pm

    Wow! I’m so impressed with your technique. It’s like water color. Fabulous and beautiful.

    Reply
    • Mandy says

      October 11, 2013 at 4:17 pm

      Thank you! I loved making this quilt, and have plans to keep experimenting with this technique to see what else I can do with it.

      Reply

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    January 9, 2015 at 5:24 am

    […] that I was using for a bespoke quilt.  My customer really wanted an appliqued quilt with a large Tree of Life, yet the budget needed to be kept reasonable.  I knew there just had to be a way to do this […]

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