The most unusual, but at the same time, colorful crafts are done by hand. There are a lot of materials for creating wonderful paintings, voluminous flowers, various souvenirs and gif.webpt sets: paper, textiles, textured cord, polymer clay.
Each of the known materials has advantages and disadvantages, and is chosen depending on the skills and abilities of the master.
Benefits of choosing textiles
Unlike paper, fabrics have a denser structure, but this does not limit the frequency of use of this material. There are a number of advantages that determine the popularity of creating patchwork appliqués:
- Nice visual and tactile effect of the resulting paintings.
- The ability to combine flaps from fabrics of different composition.
- Unlike paper crafts, fabric products will delight their owners for a long time.
- Any dirt that accidentally gets on the painting can be removed with detergents.
- Textiles are perfectly combined with other decorative elements (you can additionally embroider on a fabric with beads, threads, beads).
A large number of ready-made templates should also be attributed to an obvious advantage. Needlework allows girls to develop cutting and sewing skills, and the development of logic, memory and artistic perception will be very useful for all children.
Practical tips for work
The creation of appliques requires perseverance and a certain skill from the master. To perform high-quality work, you must first organize the workplace, providing sufficient lighting. For cutting out parts, working with seams and small parts, it is important that there is a table with a comfortable height with a wide table top. There are a number of practical tips for creating fabric appliqués:
- All templates should be prepared in advance so that the creative process is not accompanied by gross mistakes.
- To cut blanks, use sharp scissors that will not tear the edges of the flaps.
- To fasten a large number of small parts in the figure, pins should be used. Using pins, an image is preliminarily created on the base, and only then the composition is sequentially hemmed.
- Several techniques can be used to hem the flaps to the base: hand seams, machine line seams, adhesive tapes on textiles, gluing on foil. All available techniques can be seen in the photo of fabric applications.
- It is better to hide large seams on appliqués using very thin threads for sewing (except for those cases when large seams should be visible according to the idea of the project).
- For all types of fabric, except for felt, leave 0.5 cm for the fold of the fabric.
It is better for beginners to familiarize themselves with the photos of finished projects, prepare schemes and templates for making applications, the necessary tools.
Where applications can be applied
Textile patchwork applications are created not only for school exhibitions and exhibitions of creative studios. Interesting crafts can be used in the following areas:
- For the decoration of clothing, especially for older children and teenagers.
- Decoration of blankets, blankets, cushions.
- For the decoration of curtains and curtains.
You can decorate kitchen potholders, towels, mobile phone cases with bright multi-colored patches.
Cushion Applique
Using your own imagination and skills, you can find the most incredible ideas for fabric applications.It can be jewelry for a phone case, for a bedspread or a blanket for a bed, for a removable furniture cover.
Creating a picture from patches is an original way to decorate sofa cushions.
For work you will need:
- Felt of several colors,
- Threads,
- Needles,
- Patterns for inflorescence petals (the specific choice depends on the type of flower).
Step-by-step instructions for beginners with description:
- The selected textiles should be washed to obtain the effect of the first shrinkage.
- After drying the fabric, iron the textiles with an iron at medium temperature.
- With the help of templates, petals are cut out for future application, and you will also need a stem and leaves.
- The edges of each piece are hemmed neatly around the edges.
- Any selected flower contains a large amount of detail, so it is best to immediately sketch directly on the surface of the case (using pins).
The next step is the sequential hemming of parts to the fabric base of the cover. Depending on the selected appliqué design, both fine hand seams and large decorative stitches can be used for the final fastening.
Baby Blanket Applications
Decorating a children's bedroom is a pretty important task facing every parent. Correctly chosen colors allow the young child to develop harmoniously in all directions.
And joint creative work of children with their parents will bring joyful impressions. The characters that the child is interested in should be chosen for the application. How to make fabric appliques for a baby blanket:
- Found templates should be printed and cut along the contour.
- The next, no less important task for the parent is to choose the fabric for the appliques. Textiles should not be dangerous for a child or cause allergic reactions. You should not choose too coarse fiber for creativity, which can scratch the skin.
- The selected fabric is washed and then ironed with an iron.
- On the blanket (or on the duvet cover, on the surface of the blanket), the details for the applique are laid in the desired position, forming a preliminary sketch. The workpieces are fixed with pins.
- The details are alternately hemmed to the textile base of the blanket. For infants, glue can be used for fastening, which, unlike seams, does not irritate the baby's skin.
When making such applications for a baby blanket, rug or on the surface of clothing, remember that you need to be away from additional decor.
A child can tear off small beads, locks, buttons, rhinestones and accidentally swallow them.
Photos of fabric appliques
