{"id":123,"date":"2008-06-08T13:48:03","date_gmt":"2008-06-08T20:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blog2007.sheba-kitty-productions.com\/?p=123"},"modified":"2008-06-08T13:48:03","modified_gmt":"2008-06-08T20:48:03","slug":"experiment-4-a-raw-edge-applique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog2007.sheba-kitty-productions.com\/?p=123","title":{"rendered":"Experiment #4-A Raw Edge Applique&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Experiment #4 Raw Edge Applique\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/shebaduhkitty\/2561617901\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3010\/2561617901_b3d8b22fa3.jpg\" alt=\"Experiment #4 Raw Edge Applique\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are several Applique techniques in my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jenworden.com\/2008\/06\/02\/challenge-14\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ff7800;\">challenge book<\/span><\/a> \u00e2\u20ac\u0153<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Exploring-Textile-Creative-Publishing-international\/dp\/1589230485\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1212548267&amp;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ff7800;\">Exploring Textile Arts<\/span><\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153 This is called Raw-Edge because the parts that are appliqued are not finished on the edges in any way. To do this, I used iron on facing to hold down the purple and green applique shapes, then caught the edges on the main piece with a decorative stitch. I did this before adding the batting and doing the quilting. So the additional quilting areas allow the swirl and points to puff up above the rest of the piece.<\/p>\n<p>This happens to be an image I tend to doodle all the time (mostly when sitting through boring meetings) so I picked it for this series of experiments. I plan to do the other 5 types with this same design.. maybe even the same color combos if I can find the right scraps. This fits my 8&#215;10&#8243; book plans. This is very similar to the type of applique I usually do in my collages, but I usually finish the edges with a satin stitch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are several Applique techniques in my challenge book \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Exploring Textile Arts\u00e2\u20ac\u0153 This is called Raw-Edge because the parts that are appliqued are not finished on the edges in any way. To do this, I used iron on facing to hold down the purple and green applique shapes, then caught the edges on the main [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[10,62,53,102,67,59],"class_list":["post-123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-passions","tag-art","tag-challenge","tag-collage","tag-experiments","tag-fiber-goodness","tag-sewing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog2007.sheba-kitty-productions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog2007.sheba-kitty-productions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog2007.sheba-kitty-productions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog2007.sheba-kitty-productions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog2007.sheba-kitty-productions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog2007.sheba-kitty-productions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog2007.sheba-kitty-productions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog2007.sheba-kitty-productions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog2007.sheba-kitty-productions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}