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Bodacious Appliqué a la Carte by Margie Engel presents appliqué designs that are bold and beautiful, elegant and bodacious and they leap right off the quilts! With the detailed instructions and the appliqué suggestions you will be making your own bodacious appliqué quilts in no time!

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Bodacious Appliqué a la Carte

Author: Margie Engel
Pages: 95
Page size: 8 1/2" x 11"
Publisher: American Quilter's Society
Cover: Soft
Item Code: 4FF0170
Weight: 0.95 lb
20% off: $21.56
MSRP: $~~26.95~~

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Bodacious Appliqué a la Carte = Bold, Beautiful and Elegant

Set a tropical mood with flowers, both realistic and imaginary and creatures such as a handsome macaw, a sparkly gecko and a whimsical cat.
Enhance the designs with colored pencils, markers, and hand done stitch embellishing for a complex look that is simple to do.
Try the four methods of interfaced and fused applique methods and you will be on your way to creating your own bodacious applique projects.

About the Author

Although she lives on a Florida beach, Margie Engel likes nothing better than spending the day inside—in her sewing studio. Taught to sew at the age of five by her mother, she was stitching appliqués to doll house linens with embroidery floss by age six.

In their first year of marriage, Margie's husband, John, gave her a sewing machine. She happily sewed decorative stitches that produced girly dresses for their daughters and embellished their household linens. Although quilts were not part of her textile heritage, it was the color and design possibilities and the desire for a Christmas wall quilt that led her to try out quilting. An artist was born! Today, she holds numerous quilt award ribbons.

Margie is founder and president of EduQuilters, a group of volunteers who take "The Kids Quilt Project" into schools, organizations and summer camps.

Margie teaches high school sewing teachers on land, leads retreats aboard cruise ships and heads symposiums for quilt guilds. Sharing her creativity through Bodacious Appliqué a la Carte is a natural step in her life.

Table of Contents
Appliqué Meets Interfacing and Colored Pencils	7
Using the a la Carte Approach	11
Step 1: Visualize Your Quilt	11
Step 2: Prepare Your Fabric	12
Step 3: Choose a Bodacious Appliqué a la Carte Method (or Two)	13
Method One: Creating an Illusion of Depth in Appliqué	14
Detailed Instructions	14
Method Two: Jigsaw Appliqué Using Multiple Fabrics	15
Detailed Instructions	15
Method Three: Bonded Appliqué Using Paper-backed Fusible Web	17
Detailed Instructions	20
Method Four: Double-sided, 3-D Appliqué Using Fusible Web	19
Detailed Instructions	20
Step 4: Embellish with Colored Pencils	20
Hand Coloring on Fabric	21
Techniques with Colored Pencils	23
Using Fabric Markers with Colored Pencils	23
Relating to Color	23
Hand Coloring Appliqués	25
Step 5: Embellish with Thread	25
Threads, Beautiful Threads	25
Your Sewing Machine at Its Best	27
Needle Me	27
Bobbin Along	27
Tension Anyone?	28
Machine Options	29
Hoops	31
Free-Motion Embellishing	31
Step 6: Audition Fabric Backgrounds and Stitch	33
Step 7: Use the a la Carte Approach	36
Making Bias Flower Stems	36
Adding Accent Strips	36
Throw in a Few Beads, Why Not???	36
Choices! A la Carte Projects	38
Method One Projects - Illusion of Depth
Cerulean Wildflower	39
Meadowlark	42
Beauregard	47
Out of the Swamp	54
Methods One & Two Projects - Illusion of Depth and Jigsaw Appliqué
Poster Girls of Spring	61
Tropical Encounter	70
Method Three Project - Bonded Appliqué
Elegante`	74
Methods Three and Four Projects - Bonded Appliqué and Double-sided, 3-D
Windblown Wishes	79
DC's Garden of Glee	84
Inspiration! A Gallery of Quilts	90
Resources!	94
About the Author!	95