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    Ultimate Applique Reference Tool: Hand & Machine Techniques; Step-by-Step Instructions; Choosing Supplies; Options for Embellishments
    Ultimate Applique Reference Tool: Hand & Machine Techniques; Step-by-Step Instructions; Choosing Supplies; Options for Embellishments
    Ultimate Applique Reference Tool: Hand & Machine Techniques; Step-by-Step Instructions; Choosing Supplies; Options for Embellishments
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    Ultimate Applique Reference Tool: Hand & Machine Techniques; Step-by-Step Instructions; Choosing Supplies; Options for Embellishments

    By Annie Smith

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    Get started today with hand and machine appliqué! Sharing her passion for appliqué, experienced teacher and author Annie Smith teaches you everything you need to know to sew the quilt of your dreams! This colorful guide to hand and machine appliqué includes step-by-step techniques, plus advice on fabric selection, choosing supplies, and working with templates. Gain the confidence to design your own applique blocks and quilts, or flip to find several pretty patterns to get you stitching. Beautiful designs, better results! Appliqué expert Annie Smith shows you the way. Learn appliqué by hand or machine, with tips on appliqué elements and embellishments. Use the included patterns to practice—then start designing your own appliqué blocks and quilts
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherC&T Publishing, Inc.
    Release dateOct 25, 2019
    ISBN9781617458804
    Ultimate Applique Reference Tool: Hand & Machine Techniques; Step-by-Step Instructions; Choosing Supplies; Options for Embellishments
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    Annie Smith

    Annie Smith’s quilt pattern company, SimpleArts, has evolved from a small family business to an global online presence, reaching more than a million households. She teaches appliqué techniques at national and international quilt guilds and lives near San Jose, California. anniesmith.net

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      Completo manual para realizar y diseñar aplicaciones. Desde el recorrido por las herramientas y técnicas de aplicación, hasta los pricipios básicos para diagramar bloques de aplicación estilo Baltimore la autora brinda una amplia información.

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    Ultimate Applique Reference Tool - Annie Smith

    Introduction

    Several years ago, I wrote The Ultimate Appliqué Guidebook for C&T Publishing. My aim in writing the book was to give audience to the creativity and ability that we all have to create beautiful appliqué without fear. In the book, I outlined all the tools needed, talked about designing, displayed quilts, and gave an extensive catalog of appliqué elements.

    My aim in giving you The Ultimate Appliqué Reference Tool is to provide the essential version of the contents of The Ultimate Appliqué Guidebook, updated.

    In this resource guide, you will find step-by-step instructions for each step of the appliqué process—for hand and machine appliqué—by photograph and written instruction. This will allow you to see how hands are placed for the techniques, which will make it easier for you to follow along. There is a technique for stitched raw-edge machine appliqué, an innovative technique for hand appliqué, and we’ve added a great technique for needle-turn.

    There are photos of appliqué quilts for your inspiration and a catalog of popular elemental shapes so you can design and create your own appliqué projects.

    I hope it will give you the freedom to try and succeed at appliqué—with all the fundamental instruction at a glance.

    How to Use This Book

    This resource tool offers you a complete overview of everything you need to create your own beautiful appliqué. Whether you’re a beginner, experienced, or looking for inspiration, you’ll find it here. I hope there will be a few surprises for you, too.

    We’ll start with the essential tools and notions needed for appliqué, step into hand and machine technique instructions and follow up with design ideas and shapes. The appliqué patterns can be used for introductory practice and for a full-blown project. The patterns can be scanned and reduced or enlarged on a photocopier as you need them.

    The patterns are a variety of design aspects—stacked, tucked, combination, and mixed technique—each with their own instructions for success. Each appliqué pattern is presented as a whole piece, so we can give you more on each page. You can decide which size or element to use on the multisize flowers, and tucked elements come apart easily so tracing each part is a snap.

    Pickle Road Garden, Annie Smith, San Jose, California; quilted by Melodee Wade, Sunnyvale, California; 2007, 54˝ × 54˝

    I designed this quilt using Mark Lipinski’s first fabric line, Katmandu, and Jeff Turner’s art designs from the April/May 2007 issue of Quilter’s Home magazine. I was visiting Mark when his fabric collection was delivered and it was laid out on his dining room table. As soon as I saw it, I knew exactly what I would design with it. The quilt you see is what I envisioned. Melody’s quilting is the perfect complement, which took the quilt from pretty great to awesome. The block and appliqué designs were used with permission by Jeffrey Turner.

    Recording Inspiration

    The desire to create is one of the deepest yearnings of the human soul. … We each have an inherent wish to create something that did not exist before. … The more you trust and rely upon … the Spirit, the greater your capacity to create. —Dieter F. Uchtdorf

    Inspiration • noun

    1. something that stimulates the human mind to creative thought or to the making of art

    2. somebody or something that inspires somebody

    3. the quality of being stimulated to creative thought or activity, or the manifestation of this

    4. a sudden brilliant idea

    5. divine guidance and influence on human beings

    Just like a goal that isn’t written down is only a dream, inspiration for a quilt is lost if you don’t sketch it. How many times have you had a brilliant idea for a quilt and later couldn’t remember any of the details because you never sketched it out? Recording inspiration for a quilt not only creates a compilation of ideas that you come across, it also includes design ideas for a specific quilt, making a concrete history of that quilt.

    A Word About Creativity and Designing Quilts

    Creative ideas often come when you’re alone—driving in the car, in the shower, lying awake in the quiet of the night when you wish you could sleep. I don’t know why that is. Perhaps that is the time when we can actually listen to ourselves—when we’re not engaged with other people. Creativity is very personal. I have an inherent need to create beautiful things; I’m compelled to do it.

    Many people think they aren’t the least bit creative—like my mom. She didn’t paint, do crafts, or play an instrument, and she followed recipes to a T. Yet she was a gifted decorator in the home and knew just how to place each piece of furniture and decor to maximize familial interaction. Creative.

    The one absurd statement that always makes me laugh is, I can’t take an art class. I don’t know how to draw. An art class would be the very environment in which you could start that learning process!

    After the fall of the Berlin Wall, a West German teacher gave a group of East German grade school students paper and a pencil and a simple instruction: Draw something. The students sat quietly for a few minutes and did not move. The teacher asked them to proceed with their drawings, but still the students didn’t move. When asked why they weren’t drawing, the students replied, Tell us what we should draw. They were used to being told what to draw: a house or a tree or a bird. When told to use their own creativity, they simply didn’t know what that was or understand that they were free to draw whatever they wished. The instruction simply did not compute.

    The biggest block to creativity is unwillingness to take a risk, also known as a lack of self-confidence. We sometimes don’t dare take a risk because we feel that we might look foolish, and we want to look great. No one is going to start a quilt without believing that he or she can make the quilt. Start by believing that you can do it and that the outcome will be worth it.

    In his book Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art, Stephen Nachmanovitch states that the essence of creativity is improvisation—the process of creating something without any preparation or instructions to follow. Sometimes we have to start with the thought This may not work, but that can be where

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