Quilt Show 2015 – Daphne Greig from Victoria taught the Give and Take appliqué technique for the Guild. Her zero-waste method of fusible appliqué creates a unique positive/negative design. The piece is machine quilted on my home machine.

This Give and Take appliqué class was taught by Daphne Greig from Victoria. I’m not much into abstracts or free-form creativity, but I was pleasantly surprised; not only did I enjoy the technique, but I found it simple enough that I was able to keep up with the class. Daphne also set me straight on the settings I needed on my machine for a good zig-zag stitch; Pearl will be my go-to machine for this from now on.

We started with two sheets of blank construction paper; with the darker piece folded we drew and cut out a few patterns before we decided on the one we wanted to keep.

Next the images were traced onto Steam-a-Seam and appliquéd to two different fabrics. The two pieces produced mirror images of one another.

I chose to create two additional images to complete the piece. Pat suggested the two-coloured border to carry on the mirrored look.

The finished piece (21″ x 21″) will be either a wall hanging or table topper.