Cactus Applique Wall Hanging
Categories: Decor, Quilts
The cactus applique wall hanging is a great way to create and display fiber art. Cactuses and applique are hot current craft trends. I’ve been stashing geometric print grey scale fabrics for over a year, because geometrics is a trend with great staying power. The background is a marble printed fabric, which is a big home design trend that I just had to add to my own home. I have this weird section of my upper stairwell that was in need of some art. Stick Double Sided Fusible Interfacing is great for custom appliques. I used free motion embroidery aka thread sketching to sew the appliques to the marble fabric background. Stiffen Double Sided Fusible Interfacing is sandwiched between the cactus top panel and a rectangle of Robert Kaufman grey canvas. I used The Ulitimate Quilt Binding Tutorial to bind my wall hanging, with some measurement adaptations made for this project. I used a grey scale color palette, but this project could be made in any color palette. Contrasting tones and simple prints are key to an eye catching design.
What you need to make this project
- Materials
- Stick Double Sided Fusible Interfacing
- Stiffen Double Sided Fusible Interfacing
- 1 Yard grey marble print cotton fabric
- 1 Yard Robert Kaufman canvas in grey
- 1/2 Yard black cotton fabric
- Various polka dot print cotton fabrics in grey tones
- Various triangle print cotton fabrics in grey tones
- One black and white cotton with a different print
- Black thread
- 2 Nails
- Supplies
- Scissors
- Parchment paper
- Iron
- Ironing board
- Clearing quilting ruler
- Dressmakers pencil
- Free motion embroidery foot
- Sewing machine
- Hand sewing needle
- Straight pins
- Hammer