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Place a piece of batting over the top of the squaringstitches,
making sure to cover them completely.
TRAPUNTO QUILT BLOCK - STEP BY STEP
To begin, hoop a piece of No-Show Mesh stabilizer. Run the
first step of the design, which is the squaring stitch for the
batting.
C
D
Remember to only lay your first layer of batting
like a normal quilt block. If you lay all 3 layers
at the first tack down, you will just make your
block bulky and the trapunto effect will be lost.
Run the next machine step, which is a tacking stitch for the Trim away the excess batting from outside the squaringstitch.
batting.
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F
Now you will place the other 2 layers of batting over the quilt Run the tacking stitch for the extra layers of batting.
block. These extra layers will create the trapunto, or puffy,
look to the design.