{"id":5845,"date":"2010-03-01T01:11:20","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T06:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/?p=5845"},"modified":"2012-04-12T22:27:57","modified_gmt":"2012-04-13T02:27:57","slug":"lacetape-quilted-pillow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/01\/lacetape-quilted-pillow\/","title":{"rendered":"LaceTape Quilted pillow"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A pillow is\u00c2\u00a0a great project for learning new techniques.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0The use\u00c2\u00a0and actual quilting of heirloom lace\u00c2\u00a0combine two of my favorite sewing genres.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Adding free motion quilting and the use of lace tape to the project makes it an instructive and pretty little ornament.<\/p>\n

Beginning with rice Imperial batiste,\u00c2\u00a0two rectangles were cut 14″\u00c2\u00a0 x 18″, two inches \u00c2\u00a0larger than the intended finished pillow size of 12″ x 16″.\u00c2\u00a0 A piece of lightweight batting was cut to the same measurement.\u00c2\u00a0 The bow was traced onto one of the batiste rectangles using a fine tipped blue water soluble marker.\u00c2\u00a0 The quilt “sandwich”\u00c2\u00a0was hand basted together, with the\u00c2\u00a0traced bow on\u00c2\u00a0 top, then batting and finally the second batiste rectangle.<\/p>\n

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Next,\u00c2\u00a0two panels of lace tape, antique\u00c2\u00a0insertion and a small edging\u00c2\u00a0were created as shown in the photo, using the heirloom sewing technique\u00c2\u00a0of lace-to-lace.\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0Care was taken to mirror the lace pattern.\u00c2\u00a0 The heirloom panels were pinned in place so that the edge of the first and last row of lace tape fell on the intended seam line on the sides of the pillow.<\/p>\n

With fine monofilament thread, the panels were straight stitched to the quilt sandwich along each line of zig zag stitches that joined the pieces together, quilting the panels.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 The scalloped edge of the lace closest to the bow was left free.<\/p>\n

The bow was stitched free-motion, with the feed dogs lowered, and a piece of Stitch ‘N Ditch stabilizer placed under the center panel to prevent puckering as the bow was stitched.\u00c2\u00a0 Those who have some experience with free motion quilting might be most satisfied with this stitching done with 80 wt. Madeira Cotona or another fine heirloom sewing thread.\u00c2\u00a0 Others new to the technique will\u00c2\u00a0probably be most satisfied\u00c2\u00a0by using\u00c2\u00a0the fine monofilament thread.<\/p>\n

A 2″ strip of rice batiste was used for the ruffle.\u00c2\u00a0 To\u00c2\u00a0this strip\u00c2\u00a0was joined a row of\u00c2\u00a0 lace insertion, lace tape and the narrow edging.\u00c2\u00a0 The pillow was finished in the traditional manner, gathering and sewing the ruffle to the front, then\u00c2\u00a0seaming on a two piece back with two\u00c2\u00a0or three buttons to close it up.<\/p>\n

If you have never used lace tape, you might want to try it.\u00c2\u00a0 This\u00c2\u00a0versatile 100% cotton\u00c2\u00a0product can serve a number of functions, but most commonly as lace insertion.\u00c2\u00a0 Its matte finish\u00c2\u00a0can add color to a project in a way that satin ribbon cannot.\u00c2\u00a0 Among other uses, lace tape can be shaped and used\u00c2\u00a0for shadow applique’\u00c2\u00a0 (see post Lace Tape Doll Dress<\/em> <dolls>, Liberty Goat Dress<\/em> <smocking>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0and Blossom Basket Blouse<\/em><clothing~ladies>).\u00c2\u00a0 It is reasonably priced, comes in more than 20 colors and is\u00c2\u00a0available from Wendy Schoen<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A pillow is\u00c2\u00a0a great project for learning new techniques.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0The use\u00c2\u00a0and actual quilting of heirloom lace\u00c2\u00a0combine two of my favorite sewing genres.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Adding free motion quilting and the use of lace tape to the project makes it an instructive and pretty … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":14183,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39,28,40,3,38],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5845"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5845"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6644,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5845\/revisions\/6644"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}