Reverse Applique with four fabrics

I really love reverse applique. You can check out my tutorial here. However, I was only using a top and bottom fabric. Today I’m sewing reverse applique with four fabrics.

Julia with StitchesbyJulia has a great video on this technique. She starts with four 10-inch square fabrics. However, you can cut your fabric whatever size you want. I decided to go with the 10-inch squares. I start with these four fabrics I had printed or dyed awhile back.

 

I cut them into 10-inch squares.

From those 10-inch squares I cut four five-inch squares.

I placed them in stacks making sure all four stacks were different.

Now it’s time to free motion the design. Since I’m not real good at free motion, I drew my design first with one of those Frixion pens that I can erase later with my iron.

When I was happy with my design, I free motioned on the lines I had drawn.

After all four were sewn, I ironed them to get rid of the pen lines.

Now the real fun begins! Using a small scissors cut the different layers until you get a the design you like.

Here are all four 5-inch squares.

I was having so much fun I made another set with other fabric.

Here are both sets again together.

That was so easy and I loved the designs. They can be sewn together or used by themselves on a project, but I think I need to take one more step. I’ll leave that to my next post.

For more inspiration, check out Off The Wall Friday!

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