Sewing On Air Art Quilt Technique. . .

On Wednesday, we held our monthly art quilt workshop.  This month's technique was "Sewing On Air" by Nancy Green as featured in the October/November 2012 issue of "Quilting Arts Magazine."

Following along with the instructions, this is my quilt base.  I fused fabric to fabric using Mistyfuse and quilted all over.

The circles were left unquilted as my sewing on air will be done within one of the circles.

The center of the circle was cut out.  

The circle is then heavily zigzag stitched.  Heavily means going around the circle four times with a free-motion zigzag stitch (my favorite :). The fun begins as the needle is placed to the back of the circle and straight-stitched across its diameter at a medium speed.  Once across, the fabric was turned 180 degrees and gone across again.  I did this three times, always with free-motion stitching.  The three lines of sewing were then zigzagged over with my machine set at 2.5 width.  And, whalaa, there is a strong cord-like thread line running through my circle.

This was an easy technique, much more so than I realized it would be.  Come join us next month and see what other new technique we will learn.

Blessings,

Karri