Beginner's Guide To Applique Designs

Appliqueing, applying fabric on top of fabric, has been around since clothes ripped and needed fixing. In the sewing world, appliqu?�s are consider a needlework technique where pieces of fabric, embroidery, or other material are sewn on top of other piece of fabric to create a new design or pictures. Appliques clothing is an art form in certain areas such as West Africa where it has been since the 18th century. Appliques is widely use in quilting. You can make appliqu?�s either by hand, sewing machine, or embroidery machine.

Choose a method that work for you. There are many methods, but they all follow the same concept. The hand method is very simple and requires very little equipment as you only need the fabric, some iron-on paper, and a scissors. For the sewing machine, it allows a permanent by attaching a covering stitch between the two fabrics, and the embroidery machine automates the process.

Choose a base fabric to appliqu?�. This could be a shirt, tablecloth, napkin, towel, or anything you want to apply an appliqu?�. A popular choice for a base fabric is children clothing as there are large amount of children designs available. You can find any designs you need online, make your own, or from your favorite book.

Make a fabric template of your design or any other material you want to use. Prepare a fusible interfacing to the shape of the design if you are using the hand or sewing machine. The fusible interfacing will give the appliqu?� an extra layer and more details. You want the appliqu?� fabric to be a bit bigger than the fusible interfacing if you want a turned edge appliqu?�. This way you can fold the fabrics over the interfacing hence 'turned edge'.

Iron the appliqu?� on top of your base fabric, the fusible will fuse the two fabrics together. This will allow for you to sew them later without the fabric moving around. The most common stitch type use for appliqu?�s is satin as it provides a very strong covering stitch but other stitches can be use. You can also add any other details you want either by hand sew or machine.

If you have access to an embroidery machine, most of these steps are done on the machine. Most embroidery appliqu?� design follows a simple pattern of 2 color thread change and the final stitching. The first color will stitch onto your base fabric giving you the layout to place your appliqu?� fabric on top. The second color stitch or basting stitch will attach the two fabrics together. The machine will then stop for thread change; this is where you would then trim any excess fabric around the basting stitch. You would then restart the machine and it would place the final satin stitching or other decorative stitching over the basting stitch.

That is all there is to appliqu?�. Now you know how to make appliqu?�s and apply them to shirts, clothes, pillows, dishtowels, or whatever you want to appliqu?�d. Let your imagination guide you and you will come up some amazing designs and maybe discover a new method in the process!

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