Quilters - Specialty Styles

Specialty Styles

• Foundation piecing – also known as paper-piecing – sewing pieces of fabric onto a temporary or permanent foundation
• Shadow or Echo Quilting – Hawaiian Quilting, where quilting is done around an appliquéd piece on the quilt top, then the quilting is echoed again and again around the previous quilting line.
• Ralli Quilting – Indian quilting, often associated with the Gujarat region.
• Sashiko stitching – Basic running stitch worked in heavy, white cotton thread usually on dark indigo colored fabric. It was originally used by the working classes to stitch layers together for warmth.
• Trapunto quilting – stuffed quilting, often associated with Italy.
• Machine Trapunto quilting – a process of using water soluble thread and an extra layer of batting to achieve trapunto design and then sandwiching the quilt and re-sewing the design with regular cotton thread.
• Shadow trapunto – This involves quilting a design in fine Lawn and filling some of the spaces in the pattern with small lengths of colored wool.
• Tivaevae or tifaifai – A distinct art from the Cook Islands.
• Watercolor Quilting – A sophisticated form of scrap quilting whereby uniform sizes of various prints are arranged and sewn to create a picture or design. See also Colorwash.
• Thread Art – A custom style of sewing where thread is layered to create the picture on the quilt. See this picture for an example (http://www.agww.net/html/agww_merchandise_2.html).