| Cut out shapes. Leave a seam allowance
around each shape.
Cut out your freezer paper appliqués from the fabric. Leave about 1/4" to 1/2" seam allowance around each piece. As you get used to turning under the seam allowances with the iron you can cut them smaller . For practice I would leave 1/2".
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| To ready the hearts for this lesson, put a secure (large!)
knot in your thread and sew a running stitch all around the heart in the
seam allowance. Start and end on each side of the dip in the heart.
In the dip of the heart, snip the fabric of the seam allowance to 1/16 of an inch from the freezer paper pattern. You have to get in there really close but not "exactly" to the edge of the paper. Leave a little fabric to keep it from fraying in that corner. Lay your cardboard pattern over the freezer paper pattern. |
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.Now pull on both threads at the same time and the seam allowance will gather over the posterboard like magic. Be very careful not to disturb the clipped area of the appliqué. It will fray and there is not very much fabric left there to begin with. At the bottom (the point of the heart) adjust
the fabric so you have a nice sharp point. Fold the fabric under
itself if you have to.
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