LAPEL STICKTestimonials
Quilting with Lapel Stick
Submitted by: Barb Round
I recently finished a small quilt based a quote from “Paths of Glory” by Jeffrey Archer*, a novel telling the story of the actual (though unconfirmed) first man to conquer Mount Everest. He referred to the mountain by her traditional name, Chomolungma”.
Quote: “After another hour’s climbing they had to cross a stream surrounded by tufts of green grass. On its bank stood a willow tree teeming with giant butterflies that rose in the air as they approached: an oasis, the memory of which soon became a mirage as they climbed higher and higher.”
Lapel Stick was used to create the multiple layers of background brown hills and the stream banks: raw edge batik fabric shapes were glued and finger pressed in position until the batting and backing were in place, then free-motion quilting was done to define them.
I find Lapel Stick works best if you put a little pressure on for a second. It does not gum up the needle when machine sewing.
Barb Round
Campbell River, BC
Lapel Stick and Quilting
Submitted by: Barb Round
Piping is not something anyone ever taught me to do – it has been trial and error, with several episodes of tearing out because of slippage along the seam line resulting in sloppy piping. I just got my best result ever on a very tiny piping in a quilt border seam, by using Lapel Stick.
I first glued the piping fabric (yellow) to the quilt top (blue pieced), right sides together. Then I glued the piping fabric to itself (photo), securing the string filler as I pressed the glued yellow fabric together. Finally I glued the Border fabric (blue) right side down, on top of the yellow. I sewed the ¼” seam using my zipper foot (1/4” having been determined by the width of the piping fabric). There was no slippage as I sewed through these 4 layers of fabric, pressing the foot up against the filler string; there were no pins to watch for or pull out AND the Lapel Stick did NOT gum up my needle!
The result was a lovely consistent-width piping seam (photo) that made my quilt pop!
Barb Rounds
Campbell River, BC