Trio of Dimensional Flowers: Create 3 beautiful three-dimentional flowers using machine quilting, patchwork and applique techniques

By Pauline Ineson

Learn how to make amazing three-dimensional flowers with machine quilting, patchwork and appliqué techniques.

• Detailed step-by-step artworks and gorgeous photography beautifully illustrate Pauline's innovative techniques, which are acompanied by full-size templates.
• Variations for each flower show how you can adapt the colours and designs to create your own unique versions.
• Includes examples of stunning quilt blocks incorporating the flower designs.

• Language: English
• Publisher: David & Charles
• Release date: Dec 1, 2012
• ISBN: 9781446359631

Pauline Ineson

Pauline Ineson is an expert machine quilter and teacher. She ran a sewing school for children in America for 17 years before returning to the UK, where she teaches regular sewing and quilting classes in and around Worcester, UK. Pauline attends all the major shows in the UK and the Houston Quilt Festival.

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Carnation

Whether you like grand florist’s carnations or pretty garden pinks, the frilly edges of this flower are very distinctive and rewarding to create in fabric. Pink is a favourite colour but try white, lemon or red. To make my carnation flower I used two fabrics fused wrong sides together and then edged the petals with an irregular machine satin stitch. You could use two slightly different shades for added interest. Try using a contrasting thread around the edges.

Requirements

•  Background fabric, size according to your quilt block or project

•  Fabric for the stem, calyx, leaves and petals

•  Machine sewing thread, cotton or polyester, to match fabrics

•  Rayon, polyester or cotton thread for satin stitch edging

•  Fusible web

•  Water-soluble stabilizer

•  Cord or wool to stuff stem

•  Toy stuffing for calyx

•  Seam sealant liquid (optional)

•  Embroidery hoop (optional)

Making the Leaves

1. Cut a bias strip from your leaf fabric about 2in x 4in (5cm x 10.2cm) and a 2in (5.1cm) square of fusible web (I used Steam-A-Seam). Iron the fusible web (remove one of the backing papers first if using Steam-A-Seam) on to one half of the wrong side of the fabric – see Fig 1A. Peel the backing paper from the web, fold over the other half of the fabric and iron. You will now have two layers of fabric with the wrong sides stuck together (Fig 1B).

Fig 1A

Fig 1B

2. Using the Templates, draw around the carnation leaf shape twice on the double layer of fabric using an easily removable marker. Cut the leaves out on the line.

3. Thread your machine with the same thread on top and in the bobbin – preferably a rayon thread. Select a satin stitch, width 2.0–2.5, and adjust the tension so that the top and underneath look the same. You may have to tighten the tension slightly (a higher number) if your machine sets the stitch automatically (refer to Satin Stitching in the Techniques section). Sandwich the leaves between two layers