Scrap Petal Garden Class

 

 

I had the opportunity to take a really fun class offered through my Guild last Saturday. Scrap Petal Garden was taught by Penny Domikis of Cabin in the Woods Quilters. 

 

The first step was to prepare the background. I decided to go with a blue-green sky leaf idea and used a bunch of fabrics from my stash to create the background. The pattern calls for a background of neutrals from cream to grey. But in the class, and encouraged by Penny was a "do what works for you" motto. In our class we had varied versions....greens, neutrals even a black Amish theme.

 

 

 

The machine applique was taught with two techniques, the standard fusibles or a new process that I hadn't encountered before, Terial Magic. According to the website, "Terial Magic is a unique liquid fabric stabilizer that binds the fibers of fabric together, magically transforming it into a stable and paper-like material that won’t fray when cut."

 

With the Terial liquid we treated our petal fabrics until they were stable. We were then able to glue baste them in place, in order to machine stitch them on permanently. I have to say it worked really well!

 

 

Building the flowers was a lot of fun! I used a hand dyed fabric that went from golden yellow, through orange to a hot pink. I stuck to the yellow and orangey sections as I was going for a Van Gogh blue and yellow inspiration.

 

 The glue basting was a good method that held the petals stable when zig zagging around.

 

Some of us in the class showed our works in progress at the February Night Chapter of the Tidewater Quilter's where Penny also gave a fabulous trunk show.