My way to faux trapunto

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

Long arm quilting

a quick turning twenty of i think free spirit brights i made for a drag around quilt present...however i like the quilting so much that i think i am going to keep it...


so i have finally stuck my toes in the long arm water:> and am really enjoying using Kathy Mullis long arm quilter....this is the first quilt i ever did on a long arm about a month ago now...i took to it like a duck takes to water...and am off to do some more shortly...but in the meantime i wanted to share this with u...i am resolving to post to my blog more frequently than i have been...my bad over the last year....

free motion feathers and flourishes ...a few hearts and daisies and dragonflies...

so yes its a very busy quilt but its quilted in a dark lime green and i slightly enhanced this photo in I photo so u can see it...thinking it looks good...and so much easier in a lot of ways than doing this on a regular sewing machine...

did i say its all unmarked?

oddly feathers are easy on a long arm but those daisies...they could be quite a mess:> at least at first but have vastly improved