Free trapunto quilt design

Do you know someone that needs a word of encouragement? Creating messages with batting and thread is 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”.

Free trapunto quilt design
It’s a beautiful technique, it requires simple steps and the effect is gorgeous –  you don’t only see it, you feel it!

Free trapunto quilt design
If you want to learn more about this technique, follow this trapunto tutorial.

Free trapunto quilt design

Here are a few pictures that illustrate the whole process.

Stitching through a thick layer of batting underneath the fabric.
Look of stitching on the back
Cutting the batting away with this fabulous tool – thread snips
Cutting away finished
Free trapunto quilt design
Detail of cut away batting
Free trapunto quilt design
Quilt sandwich done, letters free motion outlined, background quilted.

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!

Free trapunto quilt design

Happy quilting!

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3 Comments

  1. Thank you for the design, it is beautiful and will make a lovely gift for a friend starting her own business.

  2. 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!.

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