Created October 2009

This small wallhanging was created to experiment with a technique called Shadow Trapunto. Basically fabrics are layered over a piece of sheer fabric, like silk organza, stitched, then clipped away to reveal the shapes beneath to create the vase and flower pattern.

Vase of Hibiscus taught me a lot about this technique and just how delicate it can be. If you accidently snip through the silk organza, you can create holes that are impossible to hide. Rather than continue with such a finicky technique, I instead reversed the technique to create Reverse Shadow Trapunto a, which I then tested on the Winter Wonderland Quilt.

The template to create your own Vase of Hibiscus quilt is available as a stencil from Quilting Creations International.

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