Trapunto – This involves stuffing quilt pieces to give them a three dimensional effect.  Usually you stitch a design on your piece (pillow top, quilt, quilt hanging, etc.)  Then you stuff individual sections. For instance, if you have a flower on your pillow design, you stitch around the leaves, stem, or petals. 
Nest make a slit in the back and stuff it with batting.  You’ll need a long needle, crochet hook, or something made especially for this technique.  When you have the desired puffiness, stitch the opening shut, then proceed as usual with your project.
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Quilting Word
Fabric Books – A popular form of art quilting that takes on many variations.  You make a book from fabric and embellishments.  Sometimes the book has a theme, such as the nature one my daughter and her Fiber Divas group created, with each contributing a page.  Other times it may consist of a particular type of material, a color, or a sampler type work.  Then they put the books together using various methods.
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Artist Trading Cards

Artist Trading Cards – These are the size of business cards, made of fabric, paper or mixed media on a backing.  They may be of a particular theme, may be characteristic of the artist’s work (one lady created pictures of her handmade dolls on them), may be hit and miss. Stamping techniques are great for these.  They can be simple or very intricate.
Quilters and artists collect them, exchange them, and give them out for promotional purposes.  Also, they’re fun to make.
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Our word this week is Applique.  This is a technique or type of quilting whereby you stitch one piece of fabric onto another.  One definition says it’s a piece of fabric cut out and stitched ornamentally to another.
Traditionally, the appliqued pieces made a specific design.  They might be flowers, leaves, birds, animals, houses, geometrics and more.  Usually you turned the edges, of the piece to be stitched, under about 1/4 inch and stitched by hand or machine with decorative stitches.
Nowadays, some appliqued pieces are stitched onto another without turning under so the raw edges ravel to give an interestiing effect.
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