E is for Electronic Cutting Machine

A to Z of Machine Embroidery and Quilting

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8 short years ago, if you wanted to make a quilt featuring appliqué, you had to print a template, trace the template onto fusible webbing (making sure you remembered to mirror the template if it wasn’t already mirrored), apply the fusible webbing to the back of your appliqué fabric and then cut the shapes out using a pair of scissors. Definitely time to watch a good movie or get together with some friends for a good chat (and maybe a glass of wine!).

If there was any complexity in your quilt, preparing and cutting all the appliqué shapes could take hours – or even days! The Heather Feather (quilt which I created back in 2009) has a little over 600 appliqué shapes on it – it took about 24 hours to prepare and cut all of them.

Electronic cutting machines, such as the Silhouette Cameo and the Brother Scan N Cut, use SVG files (provided with most, soon to be all, design collections from Sarah Vedeler Designs) and allow you to cut your appliqué shapes very precisely – and reasonably fast too. As a designer, I love the flexibility of being able to provide electronic cutting files. I can design something today and you can be cutting it out tomorrow (OK, maybe in an ideal world!). No manufacturing lead times. Best of all, no limits to the complexity of the design.

Electronic cutting machines were originally introduced into the crafting world to cut paper, but they do an excellent job of cutting fabric too. To learn how to use SVG files with a Silhouette Cameo click here. To learn how to use SVG files with a Brother Scan N Cut click here. The Silhouette Cameo has an easy way to do fussy cutting which can be used to create all sorts of secondary designs in your appliqué. Click here to learn how. For some best practice tips on how to prepare your appliqué fabric for cutting with an electronic cutting machine, click here.

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What I love about this collection… The Garden Party designs were created long before Sarah Vedeler Designs came into existence. You could say it was during my first (mostly unsuccessful) attempt at being in business as a designer! Then one day, someone who I had sent a sample book to many years ago found that same sample book and said “Let’s do something with these designs, they’re super cute!”. Hence the rebirth of Garden Party. Incidentally, the rebirth of Garden Party was the first of my design collections to include SVG files for use with an electronic cutting machine!

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I love the pots of flowers included in this design collection. Make your own arrangements from the individual designs, or use the preconfigured arrangements that can be stitched in a single hooping (if you have a big enough hoop for the larger ones!)

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D is for Ditch

A to Z of Machine Embroidery and Quilting

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It’s an ideal way to quilt if you’re a beginner, and it’s a quick and easy way to quilt if you’re short on time (or ideas!).

When I’m quilting around embroidered appliqué shapes, I like to stitch in the “ditch” around the edge of the shape.

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This helps to give definition to the shape as it has the effect of lifting the appliqué up off the background. If a higher loft batting is used, the effect is more pronounced.

When the background is quilted with a more dense quilting design (e.g. pebbles or swirls) then the quilting in the ditch around the appliqué shape will create the effect of trapunto without the extra work.

My favorite battings to use for quilts showcasing embroidered appliqué when I want to create the trapunto effect by quilting in the ditch around the appliqué shapes are Quilters Dream Wool and Quilters Dream Puff. These are both high loft battings that are a joy to quilt and give beautiful results when quilted.

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What I love about this collection… GO! Bloom is what I call a “whole cloth embroidery quilt“. The center is stitched onto a single piece of fabric, 36″ x 36”. The pieced circle is appliquéd onto the background. My signature technique for marking the quilt background combined with the positioning technology that is built into all of my designs makes this project much easier than you might imagine. The 4 pillows (2 are 15″ x 15″, 2 are 17″ x 17″) are a great starting point to practice your multi-hooping skills (following detailed instructions of course!) before embarking on the larger, but still very manageable, quilt. Choosing the fabric for this quilt from Ricky Tims‘ gorgeous hand dyed fabrics as pure joy!

The GO! Bloom quilt contains Quilters Dream Puff batting, with quilting in the ditch around each appliqué shape and reasonably dense quilting in the background. The embroidered appliqué shapes have a beautiful trapunto effect, looking like they float on the background of the quilt.

Ariel sent me this photo of her GO! Bloom quilt:

What I love about this particular quilt – other than the gorgeous colors – is that Ariel used designs from the Transformation Quilting Collection to quilt her quilt in the hoop using her embroidery machine. The designs look as if they could have been made specifically for this quilt – and I applaud Ariel for seeing the possibilities.

B is for Basting

Basting is defined as:

“The act of moistening food while cooking, especially with stock or pan juices.”

Oops! Wrong kind of basting!

The kind of basting we do in machine embroidery and quilting is:

“Sewing with long, loose stitches to hold material in place until the final sewing.”

Basting is important for both machine embroidery and quilting.

When you’re making a quilt, most people are familiar with the concept of basting the layers of the quilt together (backing + batting + quilt top). For a small quilt, you might baste the layers together using long, loose stitches. For a larger quilt, most people use safety pins. I prefer to use long straight pins. Even quilts quilted using a long arm machine are basted, ensuring that the layers don’t shift when the quilt is being wound and unwound on the rollers.

For machine embroidery, I like to float my background fabric on top of a piece of stabilizer which is in the hoop. It’s then very important to baste the background fabric to the stabilizer in the hoop so that the fabric doesn’t shift around. Another benefit to this basting is that it stops the background fabric from drawing in while the embroidery is stitching, thus eliminating puckers.

The majority of design from Sarah Vedeler Designs have a basting stitch built into the design: you can be sure that your background fabric will stay in place and you won’t get any puckers during stitching.

Some embroidery machines have a built in option to add a basting line around a design. If you’re using a design that doesn’t include this basting line, adding it has the potential to significantly improve your finished result.

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What I love about this collection… There are two versions of most of the designs: In one version, the plates have outline stitches only and there are so many possibilities for creating kaleidoscopes out of the plates by fussy cutting gorgeous prints. In the other version, solid fabrics can be brought alive with the thread work that is stitched onto each blade. Of course all the designs in the collection include a basting line around the appliqué shapes.

For a closeup look at a Better Than A Paper Plate quilt in blues with yellow accents, click here.

C is for Candlewick

A to Z of Machine Embroidery and Quilting

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When you’re making a quilt top, there are typically two techniques you can use. You can piece small pieces of fabric together to create a larger piece, and you can appliqué small pieces of fabric onto a larger piece of fabric to create a picture or a pattern.

My favorite technique and specialty is appliqué stitched using my embroidery machine, or machine embroidered appliqué.

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