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Origami hearts and a fusible web trick

January 11, 2023 2 Comments

This is my latest pattern – fun and easy origami fabric heart ornaments. The pattern includes instructions for three different styles. 

Fabric heart ornament patternYou need some quilt weight fabric and fusible web interfacing squares; some folding and pressing and in minutes your first heart ornament is ready to be used.

Fabric heart ornament patternPretty ornaments, great for any celebration.

Fabric heart ornament patternFabric heart ornament pattern

BUY THE PATTERN HERE

Fabric heart ornament pattern

Do do save your fusible web scraps? At the moment, I can’t find this product in Romania, so yes, I save the scraps! Here is what you can do with the smallest scraps, but keep reading until the end of this article because this trick is essential when working with large designs. 

Let’s say you need to fuse a 10” square to fabric and you don’t have such big piece of fusible web. You can use smaller pieces, cut them carefully…
Fusible web trickand fuse them next to each other, aligning the edges (do not overlap pieces). When you remove the paper backing, you will not see that instead of one big square, you used 4 smaller squares.

Fusible web trickIf you need to copy a design on fusible web, use the same trick. You can use strips instead of squares. The heart design below is very small and I used a few narrow strips.
Tape the strips carefully over the design as shown then copy the design.

Fusible web trickFusible web trick

Then carefully fuse the strips on the back of your fabric.
This design is about 4”…

Fusible web trick…but how about a 40” design? Use the same technique! This design was transferred on three pieces of fusible web, 17” wide.

Quilt inspirationThese fusible web pieces were then fused to fabric.

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This is the end result- more pictures of this reverse applique quilt here.

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Additional resources for you:
Reverse applique quilt tutorial
Reverse applique patterns

I hope this inspires you to use small pieces of fusible web and big pieces as well, to create big designs.

Happy sewing!

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Comments

  1. Lynette Pisani says

    January 11, 2023 at 2:49 pm

    Not sure how to get the folded heart pattern in the cart.

    Reply
  2. Ruth says

    January 13, 2023 at 8:23 pm

    Thanks for the fusible web trick! Very helpful!

    Reply

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