I am long arm quilting a friend's quilt with this lovely geisha on a panel in the middle of it...she gave me free reign soooo I decided she would be perfect to trapunto and to quilt it with wonderful opalescent gold thread that just shimmers on her...
....so this is how i do my "faux" trapunto...read that word somewhere lately....
First i take a piece of wool batting and cut it out roughly the size of the area to be trapuntoed...
Then i slip it between the batting and the top of the quilt...
I pin the batting and place the pins vertically so the wool batting does not slip when i roll it up..
BYTW I use pins with heads that show so I am sure NOT to sew over them..hard to miss those big flower head pins
Why do i place the pins vertically?? If you dont when you roll it up you will get stabbed with the pins...and wait it wont roll very well if at all!!
Then i sew around the figure to be trapuntoed...
you can NOT sew over it very much or you will loose the puffy look so i just quilted over a few folds in her kimono
Another shot of the trapunto before i quilted the background...
you have to quilt the background heavily to make the trapunto pop....
if you click on this you can see the quilting....free motion fans....pretty straight lines if i do say so myself...the fans not the fans' filler:>
Here you can see the fans that i quilted fmq
the finished quilt
