This is a picture of a typical trapunto project. Paula will bring a variety of stencils of varying levels of difficulty so that each student can choose their own design. Familiarity with free motion quilting techniques is helpful for this class.
Supplies:
- Fabric:
- One half yard batik or hand-dyed fabric (this is enough fabric for front, back, sleeve and binding)
- One 18” x 6” piece of high-loft polyester batting or two pieces low-loft polyester batting
- One 20” x 8” piece of cotton batting, such as Warm & Natural
- Wash-out marker, such as Wonder or Mark-B-Gone
- Thread to coordinate with fabric — I used variegated rayon in the sample and a darker rayon thread for the antennas
- Spool of cotton thread for bobbin and for machine stitching binding to trapunto piece
- One bobbin wound with a neutral color thread, such as ecru
- One spool YLI Wash-A-Way basting thread
- Rotary cutting equipment—mat, ruler, cutter
- Seam ripper
- Small scissors or thread snips
- Small blunt scissors or duckbill appliqué scissors
- Safety pins for basting
- Masking tape for basting
- Sewing machine, cleaned, oiled and ready to sew!
- Machine manual in case we have questions
- Free motion foot (also called “darning foot” — open-toed if available for your machine. If you are sewing on a Bernina machine with BSR capability, bring the BSR foot and all of the sole plates
