Exploring Machine Trapunto, new dimensions bij Hari Walner
I don’t remember when I first heard about trapunto with the machine but when I saw the astonishing results you can achieve with it I had to learn it. The best way that works for me for learning new stuff is through books. So I search on the subject and borrowed this book from the dutch quilters guild: Exploring Machine Trapunto, new dimensions bij Hari Walner
In a really short definition, trapunto means a quilt design raised with an additional layer of batting and with a pronounced “stuffed” effect. While it was traditionally a time-consuming, labor-intensive task, today’s quilters made it easier – you can do trapunto with the sewing machine!
Best of all, with machine trapunto, there are no holes in the back of your quilt!
This book has everything you need to learn this technique – list of materials and helping tools, choosing batting and step by step instructions. And after Hari reviews the basic techniques for machine trapunto the FUN begins! The book describes- 7 different “uses” for this technique, including cornerstone quilting, a reverse trapunto technique, great for borders and special effects. I was most fascinated with trapunto quilting a patchwork block.
The book also includes very useful and helpful patterns showing what should be shown with water soluble thread and what can be left to be quilted later.
Eventually I had to return the book to the library and I am considering buying it to my own library 😉 So when I desided to use machine trapunto for the jubileum challange of the quilters guild I already forgot that the project in the book also quilted ohio star patchwork blocks. I used the same block but it was just a coincidence . It was a lot of fun to do and the results are amazing. I am defenately not done with this technique and I want to try the other idea’s too – The celtic design with twin needle, traupnto of the applique and the fake applique. I will show the whole quilt I sent to the quilters guild in the next post.
