Interfacing Applique Tutorial and Tips and Techniques - My take on the Lori Holt 

I just discovered your channel. I am so glad I did. You are soft spoken and relaxed which is helpful to anyone needing a bit of help along the way. Also mainly is you do not spend time “selling things I can neither afford or really need. I know some designers are more expensive than others but one can work around that with helpful people like yourself. I am 75 so budget is most important. I agree, don’t sweat the small stuff. I am making things for my own pleasure and fortunately I do not know any quilt police.

Just found your channel. I am just starting my first Lori Holt quilt and appliqué project and found your tips very helpful. Love how soft spoken you are and how you teach. Thanks for sharing!

This was a great tutorial. I love that you're low-key, non-OCD, and non-drama. You show us ways to fix the most common little mistakes and move on. You're walking us through the real life experience instead of just repeating the instructions. Thank you! Subbed.

Your tutorial and presentation style are wonderful! Thank you for sharing your experiences and helpful information. I’m getting ready to participate in my first Lori Holt Sew Along with the “Hometown” quilt. This will surely help me!

I do think when you find a mistake with the cutting guide you should let either RBD or FQS, who ever wrote the pattern so they can write a correction for it. We are always told to look at the website for corrections right? I will be tryint trying the pelon you suggested, I am guessing it is less expensive right?

Thank you, enjoyed your tutorial

I’m getting caught up on my RU-vid videos and I love watching you. It is refreshing to not have marketing ploys added into everything. I’m enjoying how you do the Bee Vintage block. I absolutely love Lori Holt quilts and have yet to start one. I thought this would be a good one to start and get my quilting muscles loosened up but unfortunately I’m healing from carpel tunnel surgery 😕I’m not doing to well with scissors and rotary cutter yet. I’ve been quilting a long time but life interrupted my sewing/quilting time for years. I have collected lots of projects but had no time to do them. I know I’m not alone on this journey. This is a great refresher quilt. I too have been frustrated with all the tools that are recommended for quilting now and thinking what do I need all that for? I started out with cardboard templates and a good pair of scissors 😂 thank you for saying you don’t have to buy all the square up rulers and glue and thread…I think you are my kind of quiltmaker😊

Wait...you have all your pieces cut already and what was in your box was leftovers!!!!! Trust me I've done other quilt kits and the leftovers were never anything over 2" by 6" that's some lovely leftovers!!!!!! I would have loved to have been closer for the machine stitching, but you did a lovely job explaining.

I have found that I need to cut most pieces a bit larger than listed. Just works better for me. And I also some times make mistakes. I often buy a fat eighth bundle to go with a quilt kit. Gives me piece of mind. And now that I am acquiring a better stash of Lori Holt fabric I really don’t need to do that as much. I am a huge fan of her method, patterns and fabrics. I appreciate all your tips and enjoy your channel. Just found you recently. I do hand appliqué, and using her method is so much faster than needle turn or other appliqué methods.

Would love to see a trunk show of your Lori Quilts! Great content, thank you!

Thank you for this amazing tutorial! I have been working on Autumn Love for 5 years! Lol! Because I am doing the hand appliqué method. I own many many of Lori’s kits, all of which I plan to appliqué by machine( if I ever finish Autumn Love!) so I really appreciate this tutorial and all of your tips. Thank you so much! I would love to see all your 10 Lori quilts!!❤

What a GREAT IDEA, putting the shapes on a ring! I have them all in a binder that is now slammed full. I'll be using your idea and and redoing my shapes this evening! Thanks for the idea.

Excellent tutorial Laura, you make it look so easy with your organization and applique process. I definitely gleaned some great tips from you. Looking forward to your next video.

Thank you so much!!!! I really needed this to help with Calico Garden. Juki isn’t a much used brand in Australia but I have found on my Janome that I decrease the pressure from a standard 5 to 2 to be able to move the circles under the needle for example. Excellent tutorial. X

Great tip too! I really need the help as I’m doing Calico Garden and Lora is a fantastic teacher

Fun video… I just finished this SAL I’m always behind lol the kit I got had plenty even extra fabric. Except one of the greens 🤷🏻‍♀️ but, I managed… This was my first Lori appliqué project!

Wow Lora!!! Excellent video! I'm almost done with the Tannenbaum quilt by Edyta Sitar and I'm avoiding the hand applique. I've done a few sections but I just don't love the hand sewing. You have inspired me to do machine applique and finish the project that I already have so much time invested in. Thanks!!! I'll be watching all your channel from now on. 🤩

What a great video !!! I agree with everything your previous subscriber says. I love that you use other supplies that are more affordable. I will be subscribing to your floss tube videos as well. Thank you for sharing your talent with us.

I just saw this video when I was searching for hand applique tutorials. I very much appreciated your suggestions for an interfacing that I can find locally. Great tips too.

Assuming you used cotton threads? I also bought a stack from Amazon that was considerably cheaper!

This was so helpful, thank you so much! I'm just starting my first Lori Holt appliqué quilt and your tutorial was just what I needed. I liked seeing how you placed and glued the pieces down. I'm thinking you used a white/off white thread in your bobbin and only changed the needle thread. I hadn't thought about doing that. Thanks again and I look forward to seeing more of your videos.

Thank you for showing how to use a background of all one color. Very helpful! I too have found an occasional mistake in a pattern. I just write in the correction and move on. With so many numbers, I can see how one mistake could happen. I also prefer using a larger square that you can trim down. Thank you so much!!

I have bought the Crop-A-Dial and I'm doing the same set -up as yours. I love the way you show us your process of organizing your templates. That is a great idea !!! You also mentioned you are using Pellon 830 and have used Pellon 30. Do you prefer the Pellon 30 ?

Hi Loa. I love your techniques for Hime Town quilt. I cannot find the instructions for the pieced blocks for the quilt. Do you know where I can find them. Thanks

I am so happy I found your channel. Thank you for sharing your tips and shortcuts to Lori Holts quilts. I have her Autumn Love quilt kit and I am always concerned if I am cutting the pieces correctly because of having "limited" fabric in a kit, I don't want to run out of fabric!! I love the way you trace pattern pieces all together instead of individually...brilliant!! I look forward to seeing more videos from you.

What an awesome & thorough tutorial! I definitely learned a few tips & tricks. Thanks my friend ❤

Hi Lora🙂 would you be able to do a tutorial on how to add the ric rac that are in some of the Lori holt quilts. Thank you. Your videos are so informative and easy to understand and follow along.

I just discovered your videos. Love them. Do you prepare your fabric in anyway before you cut?

Hi Lora. What is the name of your Juke sewing machine, and does it only do straight stitches?

enjoyed your video. hope to find a video where you slow down the video and show the machine stitching. thanks for sharing

Hi Lora. Thank you for all the tips. I will try my first applique pillow as a Christmas gift. Can you please share what weight of interface you use?

So are we going to learn how to the interfacing or listen to what you didn't get? Im so tired of waiting forever for someone to get to the business at hand

Are the feed dogs on the machine up or down? Thanks in advance for your reply.

Have the 62 template sew simple shapes bee vintage.dont have a list of what templetes go with what block. What gos with the cat?

Something else I do to speed up the process is cut the slit in the interfacing BEFORE I sew the two pieces together. Taking time to carefully use the seam ripper to cut into the interfacing slows down the process. At least I think so. I wonder if anyone else does this? Thanks for the tip about changing the stitch length. I lower mine but I think I need to lower it even more to get those circles smoother on the edges. Great idea about adding a stitch at the cleavage.

How can you applique alphabet letters using this method

What do you do with your finished quilts.

I missed your turning...

Love your tutorials ❤

Thank you ❤!! I enjoyed your video. First time watching your channel. Since now I started following you 🥰🤗!!

Thank you so much for making your videos! I’m learning to machine appliqué and really appreciate your tips. What sewing machine needles do you use for your appliqué projects?

Thank you so much for this video. I ordered the sew simple shapes in 2018 but never did anything with them because it just looks so daunting. It is 2024 now and your video has inspired me to go ahead with this.. And I love your organization especially The library ring and alphabetizing all of the shapes. Ingenious!

Today is the first I heard of you and I’m absolutely loving your channel. I new to quilting. Tou have helped me tremendously !!!!!! Thank you💋💋💋

Just starting the Bee Vintage quilt. I have also made several other Lori Holt quilts. This will be the first time I have done all the cutting first, I’m gonna follow your lead! I’ve got my bags all labeled and I’m ready to go! Thank you for great tutorials!

I just got the calico garden kit and I realized there’s no pattern and now I’m trying to figure out what the heck I’m doing 😂

I did see an update/correction to the sewing guide for cutting more of the leaves and one other shape but I only knew about it bc someome shared it in a fb group. I lost my P28. This was my first Lori applique quilt and I was too loosey goosey with my shapes. I have since traced copies onto cardstock just in case. I had to eyeball my P28 for the blocks that use it. I did post in a Lori Holt fb group for help with the measurements bc i lost that piece but apparently that's not allowed. So lesson learned...make copies immediately of any future shape sets that I buy! Thanks for sharing all of your tips

I just found your channel and you have the same sewing machine with me. I love my and I’m making my first quilt from Lori Holt the chicken salad.

I recently found your channel and enjoyed this video very much. I've never made a Lori quilt but I have a couple of her fabric fat quarter bundles. I'm more of a Civil War Reproduction fabric lover so I'm not quite sure what to do with her fabric. I like that you're honest about the directions for cutting and perhaps a shortage of fabric. I also like that you use less expensive interfacing, which I have a lot of myself. I get tired of watching videos that are mostly marketing ploys for their products so I'm not watching a lot of those RU-vidr's/Flosstubers any more. I find her products very expensive because they have her name on them. I pick and choose more carefully. Besides, I'm 76 and don't need more "stuff" to waste my money on...haha. Great video. Will watch more episodes while I sew :)

Hi, I have two of Lori Holts kits to make. Becoming a bit obsessed with the process, challenges. I appreciate your tips and the fact that you dont want to get caught up in spending money unnecessarily. thanks.

I really enjoyed this video. I am attempting to do this Bee vintage sew along. It’s my first time appliquéing and you gave some really good tips. Im definitely going to try several of them. I’m way behind, just completing the butterfly! I’m using my Lori Holt fabric stash and using Pellon interfacing and Alene’s fabric glue to save $. Didn’t know how successful I would be with appliquéing. Thank you for this video!

Thank you for this - just found your tutorial and found you explain things very well and so easy to understand you. Just starting my first Lori Holt Quilt but have never used Loris way of doing the applique - thank you - definitely make it easier to understand.

I absolutely love making Lori Holt quilts and using her techniques. Glad to find your channel! Thanks for all the tips!

Thank you. I'm also a newbie when it comes to Lori Holt's applique method. So, I appreciate all these tips and tricks about it. Thanks.

Such helpful tips! I love the one stitch on the dip of the inner curve for the flower and the exact measurements of your zigzag stitch! Also glad to know about the pellon interfacing, I ran out once, wasn't sure what to use and there's not much info online. They're way too busy at JoAnn's and some don't seem to know much about the different pellons. Your block turned out really nice, I want to try and make my flowers, centers and leaves a little puffier. I've tried sewing the batting with the interfacing and fabric but it's challenging and the piece doesn't turn out right it's way bulky. Thinking about putting a piece of batting under the piece, would you glue it on first or make it shorter than the leave? Would love some feedback.

Thank you for this great tutorial. I enjoyed it very much, I love watching you explaining what to do in the way you are.

Oh my Goodness....I have just been struggling with appliques on a wall hanging. I started searching RU-vid on how to do it an easy way. I had put in Lori Holt, and boom....your channel came up!! I am so glad I found you! I am a beginning sewer and sometimes I try things that I think I can do, but then run into problems that make me want to quit! You have helped me so much with just watching this video! Now I can't wait to check out all of your video's. A great big, Thank You!!!

I really liked this video. I'm gearing up to do my first applique and I'm feeling more confident after watching this. Thank you!

Also my first watch of one of your videos. I appreciate your emphasis on efficiency and making things work. I love how applique looks, but my attempts previously were so slow and disjointed that I wondered how anyone could make a whole quilt before they died. Now I know and have a path forward. 💝

Hi Laura. Just saw your video for the first time. I love watching you do this block and since I am a newbie at quilting, I really appreciate you sharing your technique and your tips. Looking forward to many more of your videos. Ciao for now , Lola🤗🇨🇦

I too just tripped over you channel. Love your presentation and your honesty. Did I understand that you like the Pellon 30 the best?

Thank you so much for the great tutorial. You are so good at explaining how to do the tips and tricks!! ♥️♥️♥️

I just found your channel. Great tips. Good luck and I’ll be back.

Just discovered your channel. Can't wait to see your progress.

Thanks for the video tutorial! I’m definitely a visual learner so it was very helpful.

I have watched a few of your classes, very happy I found you.😊

Wow! So many great tips! Thanks for sharing!

This was great, Lora! Did you mention if you used a specific color thread? Also I’m thinking the zig zag stitch caught both the appliqué piece and the background? How far in did you sink your needle down before starting you appliqué stitch? Sorry if mentioned these in your tutorial-I tried to listen carefully 😉

Thank you, very clear explanations!

Thanks again for another helpful and thorough video!

Hi, Great videos and ideas! In one of your videos you linked the size of washers you used for your project (1 1/4 x 1/4”) but I was wondering what size magnets you use and if you could also link the site where you get them. Thank you so much! 😊

Your tips are going to be so very helpful! I have now subscribed to your channel and will look at past videos. When I did Bee Happy by Lori I used the sew simple shapes but did the appliqué using the needle turn method (a very lengthy process). This time I plan to use the interfacing and will look for the Pellon, thanks for the details. Quick question, what brand is your rotary cutter?

Thank you this was fabulous with you're tips

This was interesting. I have never done one of her applique quilts. First time I have seen this interfacing. Did you cut a home in back and turn? Thanks

Awesome tips! Your quilts are beautiful.

Wow I really enjoyed watching this

Excellent video thank you.

Helpful hinys. Thank you.

Absolutely love the tip on the pellon! I had an old quilter tell me along time ago, forget the frills then you have more money for fabric!!!

awesome video. Thank u

Thanks for all the tips!

I love watching other people sew… pity it doesn’t make me sew more, I try… but I get distracted… but I still love it 😂

Thank you for a great tutorial!

Enjoyed your tips.

Watching it in fast motion is fun☺

Really enjoy you and it channel

Thank you!! 🍁🤎🍂🧡☺️

thank you!!

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