One of the last decisions to make on your fabric collage quilt is how to quilt it. Since this is raw-edge quilting, you have to take the edges into consideration. If you leave them floppy and try to quilt, they’ll most likely hook on your presser foot. To deal with that you have two choices. Either go back and glue down all those edges—which can be time-consuming—or you can spread a layer of tulle or fine netting over the entire piece to catch all those edges. This is called shadow quilting. It has advantages and disadvantages, as I outline in the blog post below, “To Tulle or Not to Tulle.”
While this old post tackles one of the last parts of creating a fabric collage quilt, this Saturday’s new post addresses the very beginning of the fabric collage process, choosing a subject for your fabric collage quilt, using interviews with students from my October 2018 Portland, Maine Quilt Retreat.
Fabric Collage Master Class
For instructions on the entire fabric collage process, you can purchase the Susan Carlson Fabric Collage Online Master Class. Using video, photos, and text I take you from soup to nuts, beginning to end in creating your own fabric collage masterpiece.