Make a Reef Shark Applique Quilt with Rob!

it was written a long time ago that Rob Appell loves to blend his love of the ocean with his love for textiles well here you go we have proof in this wonderful applique quilt for you now what I want to talk about in today's video as much as placing the pieces is all of the fabulous boutiques and colors and textures involved let's get started [Music] that's right today's tutorial is all about my newest pattern and kit the black tip reef shark and this is all fusible applique but what I really want you to focus on especially our viewers today that are not following the pattern but they just want to learn how I do these wonderful quilts today is all about choosing fabrics specifically boutiques that have the right colors and textures that do the work for us so when you look down here there's wonderful Kaufmann fabrics let's just talk about what we're using and why we're using it before we talk about the pattern pieces so real quick you see here this beautiful bright vibrant blue this will be the canvas or the background that everything lays on top of so when I'm picking my fabrics first I want everything including my lightest to have a real vibrant contrast as it lifts off of the blue so that everything stands out as it would in the beautiful tropical waters right then and you've seen me use these fabric slots because I love them I'm choosing fabrics for the shark itself that are from that one's for my reef that are pretty neutral in their texture they're gonna have a bit of a watery effect a wash over the top of them but they're really aren't going to have a lot of texture to them so that as let's look at the quilt together you look at the shark itself the shark looks like it's in the water because of the textures but you don't see a lot of different lines so I don't have to worry about that in the design or in the quilting later on but when we get into the reef then it's all about textures I'm choosing all kinds of wonderful things and thinking about not only the color but where they're gonna be positioned in the reef so this polka dot purple here that I just love I chose that to be a base layer for all of our coral because it really looked like the coral does look like when you're underwater so I'm using these polka-dotty textures and that purple teller as well as this all over mottling so you see the darks and the lights in here I really want those different saturations to come through so that I can place other fabrics on top and like I said that starts to do some of the work for me and I don't have to make really really accurate looking shapes I'm just making kind of larger bulbous shapes at first this is another fantastic background fabric it looks like fireworks or it looks like sea urchins and it really is fantastic on the way that it's gonna also be a nice base layer and I can layer other colors on top of it as well this one is a similar texture and this one here you see that I've chosen some small dots and small circles working the same way I've tried to do with that purple dot so I just want you seeing textures when you're looking at your boutiques if you're going through your own stash look for stuff that has a visual representation of where we're placing it in our quilt and I'm gonna ask you to try to avoid things like a print that might have like a grape in it or a polar bear or something that would stand out as odd a couple last fun ones this one was my maverick this was my dicey choice right here so it's geometric but it also for me kind of represents light and darker holes in the caves holes where they would be used in and out of the reef so I used it partly in the reef but I also use it as partly some of the highlights on my fish so I could pull out some of the yellows and oranges so with that said let's talk a little bit more about those pieces those fish that coral reef the shark itself now we have a pattern for you and we also have a map so if you're going to go on it on your own you're just going to print out your map and you can go ahead and create your pieces as you see if you're gonna do the pattern of course you have your pattern pieces and those are gonna be pre traced on to your fusible web my patterns are always created with the image already what we call flipped or transpose those are terms you're looking for when you're purchasing patterns that means because we're doing it on a paper backed fusible web that my pattern piece has already been switched and that way you know that it will come out in the direction you see it behind me so that said want to show you how to cut the pieces with your shark applicator this is the wonderful little 14 millimeter rotary cutter I invented a couple of years back and just love the benefit of something like this is we're gonna be able to cut right on the fused line here and I can start anywhere I want and I'm just putting a nice medium pressure down and I'm holding it like a pen if you haven't seen me use this before I've just got a wonderful little grip on that little turquoise squishy there and my fingers pushing down on the dorsal fin of the shark and that's where this tool got its name and that's why it's so fun to show it today in this video of course now in my pattern and the reason I saved this I have this one little notch and we're gonna come back to this later in the video that helps us get some of the colors to twist in and out of each other watch this move I'm gonna come backwards it's easier to cut this backwards and then I can come back here and I'm gonna just going to roll forward I'm just gonna cut this piece all the way out now one of the really cool things about applique with fatique fabrics like i'm showing you and i'm just going to talk while i cut for a few minutes is that you can make your own shapes very very easily so as you're looking at the quilt behind me while I'm cutting this out I want you to think that this is the basis for your creativity and what you can really do is you can continue to add in new colors of fabric you can add in more coral if you'd like the shapes we're gonna create a really easy shapes that are designed to be used with your cutter like this but I'm also going to be using my scissors some of the stuff gets really small and really intricate and that's the other trick when you're using textured things like the fabrics I was showing you a moment ago what we were doing there as I was choosing large-scale prints for the under layers and then we'll be putting on lighter or smaller scale prints on the foreground or upper layers and that works for both the texture and the colorization okay if you're watching me cut here one of the things I like to do on these bigger pieces is I just kind of nibble away at sections and then on these nice long runs I can go here and that's where it's the benefit of actually having a rotary cutter in my fingers is I'm getting these beautiful smooth lines as we're working here now with fusible applique the fusible web layer this heat and bond feather-light that I have it also is like a fuse it's a glue layer and what it does is it works as a fray check so anytime I might make a little bit of a bad cut or I don't know if you saw me in those corners I kind of over cut past the line the benefit is is this is going to anchor down and those lines won't show up and because the way we're gonna quilt us at the end and not wash it is really what I should tell you that we're not going to have a problem with unraveling and here we are we're done we're all but finished with this cut coming into that tight little corner there and perfect so I've now cut out the very large piece and I kayo was starting to say earlier I've also cut out all of my other pieces and I just put them in bags or boxes or something like this just to keep them all individually colorized I should point out that I make sure I trace the numbers on the back of everything so I can see that that's new now the name of the piece I'm gonna follow that as I put it together on the map the last thing I want to point out though there's a lot of times for like the gills or some of the highlights on the fish and whatnot I've got a lot of these little teeny pieces like this now for me it's easier to keep track of them and find them later in the bag as a big chunk so I'll keep these set aside and then right when I'm ready to set them into the quilt on a small board off to the side I'll cut these ones with the rotary cutter or sometimes those small ones with the scissors that being said let's start talking about layout on this beautiful thing now I already have my fabric prepared my background piece is a 40 inch by 30 inch piece this is the color that's going to show through here right I'm gonna make sure that my iron is getting nice and hot and my steam setting is turned off because I'm using the heat and bond then what I'm gonna go ahead and do is I'm going to start thinking about building up my layers and I should show you this is the map that we've got here as the printable for you so this layer here eleven one there's my eleven that's going to be this big base layer underneath there so as I get ready to set this down before I put any of those other pieces I'm just going to go back here and I'm going to peel off the paper I'm looking for a corner where it's going to release easily because what I want to make sure that I see is I want to make sure I see the glue on the back of the fabric now batik is a wonderful fabric because it's a higher thread count it's more dense and so as it being more dense there it is going to be less likely to unravel or fray as we as I cut as well but I want to make sure that I get the glue up to the edge so right now I'm just peeling slowly and a lot of this comes from just experience and working with the heat and bond and not rushing the ironing process the meaning that I'm getting it bonded nicely on the first go about and that's a perfect peel there okay you set this aside now this piece itself is going to drop on down here and this is going to be my base layer I do not want to iron anything until all of it is organized all of it is designed all of it is in the right location so what I'm gonna do real quick is I'm gonna run grab a cup of coffee on break and I'm gonna organize a bunch of pieces and show you how to put the fish in some of the coral together in one spot of this the the reef I'm gonna build the whole reef out press it down and then we're gonna all do the shark together I'll be right back welcome back from coffee break I know I'm feeling wonderful and ready to get started about putting all the pieces down now hopefully as you can see and understand now what I've done is I've laid out all my pieces kind of organize them by part number and my color number so it's easier for me to find them as I follow the map I have already peeled the paper off of the big purple piece it is my reef base my background is cut at 40 by 30 inches I have about a quarter inch on either side that I'm cheating the difference just the case I need to trim down later on after the machine quilting so we're just gonna leave that as part of the the design at this moment this piece is not going to change and everything's added to the top of it nothing slides behind it so I'm going to take my hot dry iron and I'm gonna give this a really good pressing this is going to secure this permanently but also in thinking now what I don't want to do is over iron any of my other pieces as a matter of fact I'm going to do a lot of the rest of my work with my clover mini iron and I have that heating up as well right now because that's going to allow me to secure the big pieces in place without overheating this extra large base layer so I'm taking a nice time to get this getting hot and normally when working with applique you've heard me say it a million times don't slide your iron but this is just one big piece so I'm safe to slide it over here in the body but I'm still pressing and lifting at the edges and the other thing I want to point out right now is this is almost too hot to the touch and that's how I know it's really bonded really well and that's perfect just like that okay so I've got that set for us at this point what I'm going to do is I'm going to come back into my map and I'm gonna start looking for my biggest pieces first as I mentioned each of them are numbered by their color family that's the first number you see on the pattern piece so here I'm looking for my nine one piece and I know that that's gonna fit in right up in here so I just take the paper I'd begin peeling it off and then I'm gonna drop it where I think it goes until the other pieces start to really help me form so I can see it just kind of floating around about in the middle here so I'm going to assume it falls in this area but watch how this comes together now my other pieces I have over here is my eighth one and this is going to go under my nine pieces in this one and it basically starts in the corner so this is that wonderful kind of sea urchin II texture that I was showing you earlier and it's darker so I'm gonna lay it down it's got a stray that lays about at the bottom here and I'm just looking at the corner gap then with this piece what's really cool is that I go find my highlights of that nine fabric again and so like I'm going to look for 9/16 with my part numbers up there real easy to find this way and I'm gonna start building out my reef now these pieces are not well they should fit together nicely I was gonna say they don't have to fit together perfectly because it really is a very micro scene of this big wonderful reef so I'm gonna kind of put it in position as I see it here I can adjust later on that's why I have my stiletto and now we're not gonna iron anything until all of this scene comes together I also know that my fish is going to come in here so as I start grabbing some of my parts of pieces let's get this 15 in place as well 15 here has another straight edge so I know that that's going to lay near the bottom right about in here I also like to work with tweezers often if that helps and 14s gonna go in and then this way I can start to put my fish in place show you how she comes together and in the pattern piece it shows where this piece lays in completely on top of the base layer but you might have been able to see is that we starting to overlap it also looked really cool and that's what I'm trying to say is if the pieces look cool where you set them great there's very few pieces that actually have to hide and bring things together like the piece I'm going to show you right now which is we're gonna build this fish out which consists of a few different fabric pieces so I like to get them all ready at once and then I'm gonna organize them in position so let's start with this big gray base piece happens to be numbered 7 1 okay this is a great moment to I'm kind of struggling to get that loose it did just come loose but I don't know if you've seen I also often poked in here with my stiletto get in between and peel it off so this is the nose of the fish and she's gonna hug in right along our coral down here so now I can kind of position the base of her in that cutout of that piece that was there now I'm gonna get the yellow part peeled away and there's gonna be a black strip that goes in between so we're going to get them pretty close and we're going to let the black piece do the rest of the work for us so now I'm going to position this here and let it kind of hug this line whoop I want my fish on top of my coral and then when you're doing something like this it's a real detailed portion that's something that your eye would pick up on you do want to make sure your lines are gonna match up so I'm gonna work for a little bit here I'm gonna bring this yellow in I'm gonna make sure that the black fits on both sides so this is one of those intricate pieces that I want you to take your time with and get it just right so that your edges look sharp just like that and you can see now how the wonderful curve of the top of the fish and that's what makes it look like it was a printed fish instead of several pieces of fabric that's appliquéd another little trick I'll point out here a lot of the little pieces are so small this was actually a piece of seven and eight and I just didn't cut them apart at the bottom because the way they're gonna fit in here for this little nose piece which is I think pretty clever if you ask me okay and this is gonna lay in here and then I still need to add my little yellow circle in underneath the eye and that is probably over here on the table oh what a great grab I pinched it and actually pulled the paper off at the same time so I want it the yellow to slide under the black why would that matter to me as your designer friend what I'm doing for us here is I'm positioning that so that you don't have to sew on the yellow and the black if the black holds the yellow you only have to sew the black and that's why I would make a decision like that one I'm drawing out my applique patterns and then I'm just positioning this down here so that this little cutout gives the effect of the fin coming through there and it hugs this front line of this fish just like this so now it's all in perfect location but I'm going to still build the rest of the reef because now I have other parts for perspective that I want to lay in behind so like this nine one form of like a little polyp that would be above here this piece sits just underneath my fish so I'm putting a little pressure on the backside of my applique pieces as I slide that down and I also happen to know that I've got a couple of tiny little color pieces that will fit in for all of my detail so if you've never done an applique quilt before you might be thinking one of two things one is wow that sure looks like a lot of work but most of you are probably thinking wow that sure looks like a lot of fun because as applique quilt makers are often those people that love to put puzzles and things together so the benefit of an applique quilt is you get to just follow the instructions and lay in all these pieces as we've designed it when you're following a pattern but I'm also trying to teach you how I make these pieces so you can create your own or add some of your own so you get to be creative because that's one of the things I like about not following a pattern so they're really really fun but the key to success is not going too fast if you've watched my other videos you know I'm usually all over the place going crazy and look how much time in detail and I just love it it's like doing a fine piece of art I really enjoy this process so I'm gonna keep working each little piece let's talk about this next session here where we're coming together this is another one of these layering tricks I want to teach you real quick so I'm bringing down this yellow and I have a piece that goes under and a piece that goes over to bring all the colors together at once so first we're gonna get the paper off of this here and I'm gonna kind of drop it in what will be somewhat location looking at my map I know that I have this fish called a wrasse that fits in up here and it happens to be this cutout so right now I'm getting close to location but I also need to drop in this other piece which is kind of a very generic piece that's going to fit in there but that colorize is everything for us that's really cool so this will slide now underneath here and the detail it all comes back together and I want you to leave blue in this opening because that rasp fish is usually blue purple yellow and black and the blue we're going to use is just the same blue of our ocean because that's the awesomeness of the coral reef is so much of it is a camouflage trick it's happening so as I move this around I position this around I'm simply looking to make sure that my cream color in here fills in my yellow right now but doesn't fill in my blue up here of my wrasse the other thing that's going to fall into this position right here very soon will be like one of these fish right here as a matter of fact I can show you how I've done those but before we jump into this I guess I want to finish that wrasse I get so excited about all these little ideas I want to teach us today watch this piece come in here I've already peeled the paper off of it because I won't forget which this one is and what this is gonna do when I said at the oven under and over when this piece lays in here like this and then what I'm going to do is I'm just gonna slide it a little bit to try to get some of this purple of the reef popping in it where the tail is and I'm holding my breath I might turn in purple let's use the tweezers for this there we go and that's how it's supposed to look what you have the stripes of black through the blue and you've got the yellow and then I can grab this underneath here and shift all around a little bit as I need and then one of these fish here us two starting to talk about I already had the paper on the back I'm going to show you how I did this trick but look at this so the stripes are already built into it and so what I've done there is I hit it with the little clover iron while the paper was still on the back so that I can peel this fish off and then that fish will drop in there hiding that little spot or that little gap that was there so we've got lots more pieces to build into the reef here but I wanted to show you how I did that fish trick again because it's really cool and when we're working with a lot of these small pieces this is really key so the reminder is and this is the trick to it is do not take the paper off of the base layer because that's gonna capture everything and then what I do is I actually cut my pieces out remember when I said I don't cut them until I'm ready I started cutting those and I realized oh I want to show you all that so now I've cut 46 45 44 I'm gonna cut 43 lay it in order paper still on incase I were to drop these I would need to know what number they are and I put them in order so it'll be easier to reassemble the fish look I'm these small ones I still find her just as easy for me to do with the scissors of course you could try to do them with your roadie cutter and then just to make it really fun I've got a teeny little hole in there so I just cut through the side because I can't even get in there in the middle I'm gonna nibble out a little bit of section in there for the eyeball which you can see on the fish itself looks really cool but while you're trying to cut it you might think boy that Rob is pretty crazy and I might be kind of crazy but I sure love doing what I do and the last time I checked you're all loving it out there so I appreciate you letting me be crazy I didn't sound too crazy did it yeah let's go okay so now I've got that piece trimmed away and I'm ready to start peeling the paper off I'm just gonna get my tweezers involved already and then what I do is I bring it in so I've got my position as I need and then I'm just gonna peel the paper off as I go sometimes if I bend it with the tweezer that makes life even easier and I think I put my eye in upside down let's flip that around that's what I was looking for some of your fish will be swimming on the reef so you want to use your fish as your highlights these will go down last I just wanted you to learn how to do this trick some of your fish will be swimming up in the ocean or the open water so we can position those later on we need to build out all of our reef though before we put any other pieces down or iron anything down completely so that's why this works so nicely with our fish here because I'm just securing them hope that one flipped over and you just want to make sure it looks the way you want it to look and then what I do is I use my clover mini and I'm gonna iron it down now I have batting already my ironing board is already underneath my fantastic ocean fabric here the ironing board itself is made out of one of those pieces of one-inch thick insulation that you can get at the hardware stores and then it has been wrapped in some batting so that I can iron on it and stick to it and that works fantastic I want to keep building a little bit more of this before I jump into caffeinated mode and finish out the rest of the reef because I just want you to see and get the real feel with the way that some of these other pieces are gonna lay down because I've used some of the fabrics as highlights and then sometimes I've used them as shadows as well so coming back up in here to this top section I've got this piece number 62 in my hand and this is gonna fill in along this top yellow line here so it's gonna go underneath the yellow and this is why we don't press anything down and you wanted to when you saw that wrasse come together but you didn't need to we're still good like this I'm just gonna shift that down like that and then this is the other piece right here so there's a lot of contour in these cut lines if I'm gonna make you cut that hard work that all about much effort into your cutting pieces then I want that to sit on top so that the colors come together so I want at least get this piece in play so you can see how it really works on top of the orange print and it takes away a lot of these large chunks that you see of the hexagons and so it doesn't look so geometric it looks really cool in our reef okay I'm just gonna slide this down a little bit if I remember that's how it went and then this piece here these textures are gonna fill in along here so I can see that that fish needs to be removed and that's a good thing because as I look back at my map I can see that the fish was actually on top of this coral the whole time some of these little skinny parts like this are going to try to twist around and move on me what am I doing here there it is perfect so I want this to come underneath this here I'm not covered in that hole down there so it's a little bit of an under over game under over under over you remember that from our grade school days and then look at this and not awesome how that comes together now I want to point out I positioned the white where it goes now I can come in here by holding this I can move the orange around because what I don't want is any of these I don't know if you can see it but there's a blue gap showing in there right now and that would be like a cave that isn't supposed to exist there so we want to make sure everything fits down together and then you can always come back in and I can see that I even have a couple of other these cream color pieces that are gonna fill in that edge too so I got this nice and flat here again building my base layer so that I can come back in and I can really start to fill in the rest of the coral reef so why don't I do that why don't I get a bunch more of the pieces in so that you can see where we're at and then we'll finish off with the shark today I'll be right back [Music] [Music] and again welcome back you can see that I have all of the pieces of their coral reef the fish all the little detail highlights shadows everything in place now we're ready to iron so let's talk about a couple different ironing strategies I'm going to make first of all I've got my iron good and hot over here it's a dry iron because I'm using heat and bond feather-light and in this section over here because I don't have any little intricate fish or a little any under overlapping pieces that are real crucial I can come in here and I can just press and lift and it's about three seconds with my dry iron so I am now securing all of these appliqué pieces here and I'm gonna keep doing this like this and working my way in one direction now coming back up from what I've already pressed in the other direction up into semies wonderful little like feather duster corals and little tube worm heads and all these wonderful things that we find on the reef and this is all bonding down beautifully again so hot that I don't really want to touch it with my bare hand and I've got a little bit of pressure and that's putting it all in place like this but then when I get into my other section of the reef where I've got all these intricate little pieces I really want to use my clover mini iron to set a lot of these pieces as I go so as I come across here I've got this big piece and I'm watching and I'm watching to make things sure things aren't moving around but then as I get into the more intricate spots I really want to anchor and secure with my little mini iron so this has been nice and hot for a while I want to keep working in the same area I've been working in so I'm going to come in here now and I'm going to heat up these sections a lot of my fish have highlights on them so I can come in here like this there's a little highlight on this fish and your mini iron is gonna be real hot but it also will start to cool quickly so anytime it starts to feel like it's cooling down you want to let it build back up and while I'm doing that I'm always using my eye and I'm going around and I'm making sure that everything is right where I want it a couple of these little crucial pieces I don't want to move anymore you might even seen I actually press that one while I was building out the reef because I didn't want it to move all those pieces were so sensitive and small there so I can come out here and I can anchor and then what I'm going to do after it's anchored I'm gonna do one last final pressing with my big iron to apply that final amount of heat and pressure I need so the clover mini iron is bonding the glues to the surface layers of each other not really necessarily bonding it all the way to the background layer can also move little pieces if I need slightly as I'm working with the mini iron that's one of the reasons I love it so much so I'm hitting my sensitive pieces I'll hold this fish where he goes make sure you get all these highlights down on the fish like that let's get this guy's secured these parts secure here making sure this fish is always on top of all the other pieces because this fish is swimming closest to you you want to make sure there's no coral in front of it and then once all of those major pieces like that have been secured then in the same area I'd been working I'm coming back in here with the big iron and I'm really pressing these down nice and I'm gonna get all of this done so that while I'm working on my shark pieces nothing is moving and the shark will sit on top of all of this or not touch any of this so none of this is dependent upon the shark when you're looking at any other applicants or applique pattern I should say I want to make sure that I'm always evaluating the entire design and making sure I don't ever press things down before all of the stuff in that areas in place so that you don't have to try to fit things in behind something else that's very challenging okay I think we're completely secure here feels great obviously looks wonderful I'm really happy with my layout at this point if you wanted to add any of your extra little characters use your scraps from the leftover pieces you could build your efj up more but it's time to dive in and get our shark done so I'm gonna slide this just slightly down so it's a little easier for me to reach the middle the shark itself is gonna build into this big part up in here and the first thing I want is my biggest piece to come into place here like this and a little hard to tell but this piece is a highlight that goes into the one of the fins so this is gonna run all the way out and through there so that's an up position right now that's one of our little layout pieces let's get this cut off of here paper peeled we're going to try to get this as close as possible to location so the body of the shark is actually swimming slightly up this light body part so I'm going to have a little bit of an upward motion and then I'm looking at this edge here and I'm comparing it to my map just for perspective and this is going to point a little bit more towards the upper corner so I'm hoping this is about the right location for this of course we can move it all around but we're gonna have to scoot pieces because I've already peeled the paper off of the back ok so then from there I'm gonna get all of my pieces I had in my bags and I should probably have these out and organized and ready to go the next big piece I'm looking for is gonna be this one here from color number three three number one and this is going to wrap around the top and bottom of this highlight Center body of the shark and now you can see as I'm dragging my fabric over the top of my reef you now know exactly why my reef has been already set in place completely so I'm not worried at all about moving any of that stuff just like it's part of the background now heatin bond won't stick to itself much but you saw there if it was a much warmer day I could have been in trouble so do be careful while you're peeling your papers off okay and now I'm looking for this zone here this part if I remember correctly goes up this part's going to kind of hug back in here around oh there's another little piece that fits in there and this is one of those pieces I wanted to show you earlier that's real important so this I'm going to hug around the tail whoops that's where it's that parts to tail I knew it didn't quite look right and then what we're gonna do is we're going to do a little under over game again here in a second so I'm just positioning all of this we'll probably have to move some of these slightly so I'm looking that little bump there bumps in this pulls right up to the nose shark here I also like to do kind of this patting and sliding motion what we need though is we need this highlight to be on the up so that's why there's this cut in here he goes just like this perfect look at that okay and it comes back out over here that was that funny little piece I was cutting earlier so if you have to make any scissor adjustments to that you certainly can to make sure that these pieces all fit together so nice so that's one of those key elements you see how that brings them both together top and bottom and you should have a little bit of an overlap just a reminder this was the really important part for me to make sure that you could see where this light part came out on top of the dark part but the dark is on the rest of this so what I'm gonna do now is I'm gonna get the rest of the pieces in place on the shark and talk you through the final pieces of that and then the machine quilting I'll be right back alright fantastic here we are in the last moments of setting the pieces into place on my reef shark and what I'm doing right now is I'm just adjusting any of the underlaying pieces because what I don't want is any blue from the background to show up in the body at all it just won't belong there in our art piece once everything is just as I like it just like on the bottom of our reef I'm gonna use my big hot heavy iron and press everything down you could also come back in and later with your guilt points or your eyeball pieces and you could press those in with your clover mini iron but I already have mine position which means I will iron them straight down and lift to make sure that everything's perfect once everything's secured then you're gonna go ahead and put down your backing and your batting excuse me I forgot to mention we're gonna put on our wonderful interior and exterior borders then we're gonna cut our backing and then we're gonna cut our batting and make sure everything's all set and baste it and follow me to the quilt I'm gonna talk about the machine quilting now when we do machine quilting we want to start in the center of our project so even though I had all these detail pieces down in the reef I started about here on the shark and then I came around the shark parts the were several places like in the tail where because I'm using the black thread and I'm using a polyester thread for this because of the fusible applique I was able to go in and out of all of the different little black and gray pieces within the tail to hold all those down then you're gonna go around the whole body of the shark itself first once the shark was secured at this area I was able to jump down into the reef and then I began filling in the reef parts I actually used an orange and yellow variegated thread for most of the work I put in a little bit of black thread and I went around the fish and once everything applicate wise was secured then the last we need to do is we just come back in with our blue thread and we're doing kind of a watery motion back and forth and I even snuck some circles or bubbles into my ocean there that is working to bring together the entire story of this awesome predator our black tip reef shark so lots of wonderful information today on how to assemble if you're following the pattern I also hope you were able to pull a lot of great information if you're building your own applique turns on how to choose your batik fabrics how to pick those fantastic colors and textures that do a lot of the work for you so that you can just enjoy spending your time putting together your pieces of your favorite patterns and as a matter of fact you know how much I love these applique patterns so in the comments below today I want to hear from all of you what's the next pattern I should start working on right here at man sewing thanks for being a man sewing fan it's great to have you out there encouraging me to create fantastic new content if you've missed any of the videos we've got links for you here and here and while you're checking those out make sure you're subscribed we don't want you to miss any of the action [Music]

Channel: Man Sewing

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Id: u-KsOVEHhww

Length: 41min 5sec (2465 seconds)

Published: Sun Jul 22 2018