Teaching in Texas
I’m just back from a teaching trip to Texas, where I learned a new term: high five. In this area of dense traffic it refers not only to a high hand slap, but also to a stack of five freeways crossing in various directions.
However, the workshop venue was in a beautiful wooded spot, well away from freeways both high and low.
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My hosts, the Bear Creek Quilters, were very welcoming and gracious. During our Double Reverse Applique class, we had a lot of fun, and everyone created dramatic apples.
Below, Teaa and Linda were hard at work. Linda is using a light box, which is integral to the technique.
Here’s my wonderful hostess, chauffeur, and dinner companion, Charna, with her apple. Can you believe this was the first time she had done any free motion sewing?!?
In the Double Reverse Applique technique, pieces are added from lightest to darkest. So, stitching starts with the white highlight and ends with the shadow, stem, and background fabrics. Char’s apple, below, shows this progression, still underway.
Dana with her colorful apple:
Maggy added interested with a large scale print, and a blue-ish shadow.
Great work, ladies!
I’ll have more apple show and tell in the next post.
Ellen Lindner
P.S. I also teach Double Reverse Applique online, and I offer it as an e-book. This is an awesome technique, especially when a high level of accuracy is needed.
