Sew Easy Lesson: Reverse Appliqué

today's so easy lesson I'm going to show you how you can use freezer paper to make some easy reverse applique circles the first thing you need to do is decide how big you want your inner circle to be this one here is four inches and I've just cut it out of some some simple cardstock and underneath that I have a piece of freezer paper that I've cut exactly one and a half inches bigger than the diameter of the circle and I have secured my circle in the center just using some tape now what I need to do is just take a pencil and I'm going to trace around the outside of my circle now once I've done that I can remove my circle stencil here and we have what is going to be our our stencil for our freezer paper so I can now cut out my Center here okay now that I have my circle cut out almost now we're going to fuse this onto a square of fabric and with your freezer paper you have sort of the waxy side and the paper side and you want to make sure that your waxy side is on the wrong side of your fabric so I have a square here where I've already taken and used my template and fuse it down to the center of my square fabric and then just using my fabric pencil just roughly about a half inch in from the edge of the freezer paper I've just drawn another circle now this one doesn't have to be exactly accurate because this is just our cutting line we're going to cut out the center circle now okay now this one we again don't have to make sure that it's exactly accurate this is just going to be the part of the circle that we press around to our freezer paper that's going to help create that even curved edge okay so let's go all the way around here okay now we have this cutout what we're going to be doing is we're going to be pressing this back so we're going to need to actually cut some notches in this because it's going to be really hard to try and press this if we don't so you're just going to cut some notches and you're going to go right up to that freezer paper but not through it and you're just going to continue to cut notches all the way around so I have one here where we have done that you can see I have I mean these are really tiny notches I've made a bunch of them but the more you have the better because the easier it will be to fold those back and press those so that's what we're going to do now let's take it over here and just start by folding some of these back and pressing it up against that freezer paper okay and you'll just keep going around until they all lay in their circle like this and I have one we've already done that and you can see here we're ready to take our freezer paper off of our circle and so since we've just lightly fused it on using our iron should just easily peel right off so we are left with this and you can see from the right side we have a perfect circle so now we just need to put something in our circle so you just need to decide what kind of fabric you want behind it I just chose a blue and we're just going to Center it over our circle so you just want to make sure that this piece of fabric is big enough to cover this entire area if you're not sure what size of fabric you need to cut you can bring back in your template and you know that's the size of square that you need so we're just going to Center that over our circle we're going to put a couple pins in it to hold it while we're stitching and I'm putting them out in the corners that way they don't get in the way when I am stitching around the circle do one more and then we're going to turn it over we're going to stitch from the right side and we're just going to stitch as close as we can to the edge of our outer piece of fabric now this is an opportunity where you could use some orange thread if you didn't want to see it you could also use some blue thread if you really wanted that extra pop of color I'm just going to use a bright contrasting color of thread so you can see where it is I'm stitching okay and we're just going to go right around the edge and if you feel that your PIN is in the way underneath you can reach under there and pull it out because you don't want to sew over any of those pins and then we would just continue to stitch all the way around the circle staying pretty close to the edge now you don't have to stop with just that circle you can actually do another circle on top of that so we have one here where we've done the exact same steps again we've started with another larger circle cut out another larger square of our freezer paper and then just repeated all the same steps so you can see that gives us three different circles here and they were really easy to create using that freezer paper so I hope you learned a lot of tips here in this so easy lesson and join us next time for more time

Channel: Fons & Porter's Love of Quilting

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Length: 5min 29sec (329 seconds)

Published: Mon Jul 29 2013