Detail Tips
Fabric Glue Stick
Paperback Fusible Web
For single small motif elements use fabric glue to hold pieces in place.
Select flower area, with paper-side up, fuse to wrong side of fabric scraps following manufacturer’s instructions. Cut out shape and remove paper from back of flower.
Fabric Glue
Select flower area
Placing Motifs on Base Cut along flower outside design edge.
Paper removed
Flower placed on unit
108 fabric vine 2014
Have fun placing the different elements on the base fabric pinning, gluing, and fusing to unit. Marijke wanted a fish to be engulf by the water so she cut the fabric and slide the fish underneath the water. Check the units from a distance is the composition balance, color placement, directions of motifs some tricks to use; set work on the floor and step further away, put the work upside down, look at it in the mirror, or take a picture.