Do you know someone that needs a word of encouragement? Creating messages with batting and thread is a simple task! Let’s see the example below.
Enhancing a quilt design and giving it a pronounced “stuffed” effect with an additional layer of batting is called “trapunto”.
It’s a beautiful technique, it requires simple tasks and the effect is gorgeous – you don’t only see it, you feel it!
If you want to learn more about this technique, follow this trapunto tutorial.
Here are a few pictures that illustrate the whole process.
I quilted the entire quilt with Aurifil thread: 12wt thread to outline the letters and for the heart lines and 50wt for the dense quilting around the letters.
So much fun!
If you want to sew your own version,
download the design below and
follow the trapunto tutorial here.
Happy quilting!
Thank you for the design, it is beautiful and will make a lovely gift for a friend starting her own business.
This is a really great and inspiring project to start to learn trapunto. I am going to try this. Thank you so much for putting this together!.
Hi Geta, I had a go at your trapunto project. Your instructions and patterns are very clear, thank you. I wrote about my experience at https://www.cleverchameleon.com.au/trapunto/. I hope this helps more people find your great blog.