Beth Ferrier

Machine-Finished Hand Appliqué

Beth Ferrier
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  • In-depth Instruction; over 167 mins
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  • Available for purchase: $15.99
Get to know your instructor, Beth Ferrier, as she walks you through the techniques you'll learn in class, dicusses helpful supplies and demonstrates efficient methods for making circles and templates.
Train your eye to see value in a new way as you pick up tips and tricks for choosing fabrics and color palettes that work well together.
Learn how to make clean, efficient cuts and use mitering to your advantage. In this lesson, Beth explains how to choose the best scissors for the job, cut difficult shapes using easy techniques, and work with tiny bias stems.
You'll be glued to these basting techniques as you practice Beth's "overs and unders" method for working with small pieces, circles and overlapping elements.
All the pieces come together as you learn how to line up each piece of the motif and dock them together seamlessly. You'll be amazed when it's complete!
Explore the best practices for machine stitching your motifs, including bobbins, needles, feet, stitch settings and tension corrections that will set you up for success.
Now that the motifs are ready, you get to enjoy the creative process and create gorgeous designs of your choosing! Beth shares design tips and ways to make aesthetically pleasing choices before outlining the order of stitching and ways to remove the backing.
The class wraps up with a myriad of embellishment ideas, including ways to add color and pop to your work with hand-embroidery, bobbin and thread techniques, and more!
 
 
8 Lessons
2  hrs 47  mins

Learn time-saving techniques that help you avoid drawn-out hand appliqué processes without sacrificing quality stitching. Beth’s hand appliqué tips help you at every step, from the initial creation and organization of templates to embellishing your quilt motifs with embroidery stitches. She’ll cover the fundamentals of how to appliqué, including the materials necessary to create her exclusive, customizable pattern. Efficiently cut and address the paper templates so you can easily dock and stitch them together later. Glue-baste perfect circles and sharp points in deceptively simple techniques. Choose fabrics with different color values to produce interesting lighting details, and machine-stitch your motif to the background for heirloom-quality results.

Beth Ferrier

Beth likes to say that needlework is sewn into the fiber of her being. After learning to embroider at the age of four, she was smitten with all things needle and thread. By age 12, she was sewing her own clothes. Today, Beth has been quilting and teaching for decades. She's written several books on quilting, and been featured on Simply Quilts, Kaye’s Quilting Friends, and The Quilt Show with Ricky Tims and Alex Anderson. Beth also has her own pattern publishing company called Applewood Farm.

Beth Ferrier

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Machine-Finished Hand Appliqué Purchase this class for $15.99.