Trapunto quilting

Make a beautiful quilt, a runner or even a bag with these blocks. Stitch in the same colour as your fabric or contrast colours. Quick stitching with no jump stitches. Whip up a quilt in no time with gorgeous raised effects. Instructions included to do your blocks. See photos for sizes. Single designs are available below.

Trapunto

A couple of years ago I was invited to take part in a local college program which was to be compiled of several courses on Fibre Art. My particular part in it was teaching embroidery. Since one of the issues that are very dear to my heart as an artist is the preservation of old traditions in art and crafts, I decided to design the course around several classic embroidery techniques. Crewel Embroidery My idea was to introduce the students to Cross Stitch, Crewel, Chain Stitch, Couching…

Well, this is eggciting...! I used up more scraps ;) I know, you're shocked. It's been a lot of years since I've done the trapunto technique, and I thought this would be a fun way to show you how it works. Trapunto is essentially a stuffing technique that will add dimension to your quilt or projectI pieced the tiniest scraps together, and sewed them between some narrow scrap strips to make patches that were at least 5½” x 8”.I traced this egg shape on each patch and cut them out. Here is a…

For exhibition at unit twelve next week.

Mimi Plange leather dress, spring 2013. She uses the Italian technique of trapunto quilting to reference African scarification traditions in the curved lines on this dress.