The Secrets to Quick & Easy Beautiful Quilts

Imagine easily quilting exquisite accents with the simple approach to Trapunto

In Basic Trapunto, Bev McClune reveals her secrets to successful and uncomplicated trapunto in an enjoyable two hour DVD that will leave you with a quilt that will dazzle and amaze.

Trapunto, sometimes referred to as stuffed quilting or raised quilting, is a long-established quilting technique that can make a simple piece of white fabric come alive. The technique of Trapunto creates the glorious French Provencal wedding quilts - these whole cloth quilts are traditionally all white for the marriage bed.
Although not relegated to white only fabric, the texture created is the main feature in Trapunto ... not the fabric.

Bev guides you through the fundamental techniques of simple trapunto, manipulating cloth with needle, thread and batting to add exquisite accents to your quilts. She demonstrates exactly how you can achieve a diamond grid with corded trapunto. Bev shares her expertise, in a manageable quilt-as-you-go project.

More than just the basics

From start to finish, the Basic Trapunto DVD workshop is loaded with beneficial tips. Discover how to:

• Set up your sewing machine for corded trapunto
• Which tools and products to use to make the job easier
• Mark your pattern
• Spray basting
• Meander quilting
• Join the individual strips to create your quilt
• Make cover strips
• Add a binding

Relax and enjoy

Bev encourages you to explore this wonderful technique. Discover how therapeutic the whirl of your sewing machine can be as you sculpt out designs on fabric.

It's not that hard once you know how. Discover how - Buy the Basic Trapunto DVD. Also includes project pattern and written workshop instructions.