Dryer Sheet Applique Techniques and Tips

Dryer Sheet Applique is one of the better applique techniques for appliqu�ing small leaves and flowers.

On the back of your leaf fabric, draw your leaf. Place a �used� dryer sheet (there is too much fabric softener and scent in an unused one, making it stiffer) right sides together with the leaf fabric and sew along your drawn line.

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Trim to about 1/8-1/4 inch seam allowance. Make a slit in the dryer sheet only, thus enabling you to turn the leaf inside out. Press.

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Pin to your background fabric and using thread the same color as your leaf fabric, make tiny stitches to secure it.

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The stitch you use to secure your appliqu� piece is a like a blind hem stitch, but much smaller than you would use for hemming your trousers. Bring your needle up through the background fabric and just barely catch the folded edge of your appliqu�, then straight down or slightly underneath the appliqu� and up through the edge again.

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