On the machine today is a nice Storm at Sea...
My customer and I decided on a little Heavy Metal.... Some how I go my camera on some kind of filter when I took this pic. I kind of like it.
So I thought I'd give you a little how to... This is a great technique for areas that you want to stand out without adding any extra stitching. Works especially well for photo transfer quilts.
This method of faux trapunto uses a second layer of batting in the area that you want to have a little extra loft.
The first thing I do is measure the square I want to trapunto. These measured 4 and 1/4", so I decided to cut my batting squares at 4 and 1/2". This assures that the batting will be stitched down when I do my stitch in the ditch...
I use 505 spray adhesive to position my batting squares behind the batik squares...
I do all this before I load the quilt top on my machine. Now all that is left to do is the quilting. Depending on the batting you use, you may want a dense background fill around the trapunto to make it POP even more. For this quilt I simply stitched in the ditch around the batik square.
You can see the extra loft a little better in this pic...
