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How To Make Illusion
Stained Glass:
Make a fabulous art
quilt that looks hard to make but if you can use a pen,
scissors, iron, and can sew a straight stitch on a sewing
machine…then you can make these quilts!! This technique is
so easy that you will fool your friends into thinking you
are a quilt prodigy!! So here is the secret to these
beautiful quilts….. colorful fabric pieces are fused onto a
black fabric background. See how the quilts look like a
‘soft stained glass’. They don’t have the harsh 1/4” black
lines of leading. You don’t have to
purchase that expensive bias leading that most of the
stained glass patterns use!! You don’t have to bother with
what piece of bias leading gets put down first, second and
so on. My technique is so easy that you can listen to Dr.
Phil AND make the quilt.
If you aren’t
familiar with fusing, it is a process that puts dry glue
onto fabric. When the dry glue is heated with an iron it
melts into the fabric. Hey, I have taught 5th
graders this technique and they absolutely loved it so it IS
as easy as it looks.
Step 1: Place your
fusible (dried glue on a paper surface) over the full size
pattern.
Step 2: Trace all the
lines.
Step 3: Cut apart the
traced fusible in between your traced lines…don’t cut on the
traced line yet.
Step 4: Place onto
the backs of the beautiful fabrics you have chosen and press
with an iron. The glue on the fusible melts into the fabric.
Step 5: Cut out all
the pieces on the traced line. You now have puzzle pieces!
Step 6: Cut your
black piece of fabric, chalk lines along the edges to help
place the pieces.
Step 7: Think of
this as a puzzle…place the border pieces first and work from
the outside in. The pieces have to fit because you traced
them to fit. Peel the paper off of each fusible piece and
lay it down onto the black fabric just like the pattern
picture shows.
Step 8: Press the
pieces down with a heated iron and that will glue the pieces
into place.
Step 9: Add a simple
border and fabric around the edge called binding. I teach
you how to put on binding on a sewing machine…no hand
sewing!
My patterns include
very detailed instructions…some even have digital pics. You may have noticed that
I use the term ‘press’, not ‘iron’. Consider ‘iron’ to be a
four letter word…ha ha. We press in an up and down motion
so the fusible on the pieces will not slide. Save ironing
for when you have wrinkled pants.
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