Stained Glass Style Outlined Fabric Panels

Hi, I'm Ellie Aller. And I want to show you how I use a pre printed fabric panel and stain, classify it. It's actually pretty simple. I started with a beautiful, it was a panel that I found on Etsy. It was a painting somebody did and blew up and printed on this size piece of fabric.

And then I uh made my letting and I surrounded all the elements uh within the picture, I did the birds. I did the petals. This area here has no imagery. So that area is nicely quilted. So I'm just gonna give you a quick demo on how this works.

So I have a second panel that so I can show you exactly how I get this wedding made and ironed on. I found some wonderful metallic cotton that I'm gonna use for my letting. So the way I prepared it was, I put some fusible web on the back and then I'm gonna cut some strips and I like to cut it on the bias. So I'm going corner to corner and I'm just gonna cut some nice narrow strips. I'll just cut a few and then I can show you how do they go on?

All right. So the main thing is you wanna make sure the end of your piece of letting is the right angle. I keep paper on hand. So if I have to adjust my angle, which here I think I do a little, my little pieces are collected on the paper. So I'm gonna start right here on his beak.

I tap the end in place and I'm just following the outline of this little bird. See it's taking this curve very nicely again because it's cut on the bias and I'm going all the way down to here where the tale starts. I'm gonna clip it flush with the shape of the tail and then I'll just, that looks good. I'll just keep going. It's a pretty straightforward concept.

The main thing is to follow along with the iron after you've guided the letting into place, you never wanna stretch your letting, you just want to guide it. So, again, it's all about the concept. I think once you know how to make your letting and to iron it on and then when it's time to sew it, we're not gonna do that here. But it's basically you lay out your quilt top, you have batting in the middle and you have backing and then you're gonna sew on your letting with a zigzag stitch. You could use gold thread or you could use clear thread.

I, I don't think I'd want to use a contrasting thread. I want the, the gold to shine. So see how I've cut it to make that little angle right there. And I'm gonna just do one more strip to outline part of the bird and you'll have the idea. I'll just take it down to here.

I think like that, I got it in place. I'm gonna tap it with my iron to make sure that corner stays just the way I want it. And then here I go around his little body, I'm gonna stop right there. Now, the lights are pretty detailed and I am gonna show you again now that you know how this concept works. I'm just gonna peel this back and show you that I went very, very narrow here, outlining the feet.

The great beauty of this, of this technique. This concept is once you've got your letting prepared, you can cut it very thinly for detail or you can cut it very, very wide so that you can really have a dominant outline. And when it's wide, I zigzag on either side and when it's narrow, I zigzag across the whole piece of letting. And that's my concept and um in a nutshell and I know that you might have some panels that you would like to outline or you can find some new ones that you wanna buy and try this technique. Um Once you've got your lettings tone down, you can go back and add some quilting and uh So, it's, it's just a really fun project.

A way to get something stained glass just by putting the letting on. I hope you'll give it a try.