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Goth Collage Wall

Hey there ghouls and creeps! I hope you had a great week! I personally love the gallery wall trend, but as a renter love an alternative where I get the aesthetic without the holes. So I came up with this applique/quilted wall hanging! This wall hanging provides the gallery wall look, complete with some goth and witchy icons. Instead of hanging each individual frame or wall decor, simply hang up this wall quilt and voila, you have your collage wall! The finished dimensions for this project are: 35″X30″.

I rated the Goth Collage Wall project as moderate. The applique cutting could be cumbersome manually, so I would definitely recommend using a Cricut machine or laser cutter! This project is great for practicing applique stitching techniques and application! This project gets you into the quilt-making process by having you applique, quilt, bind and then attach a hanging sleeve. Let’s get started!

Step 1: Cut out your Appliques: Using the JPG file below, cut your applique pieces in Cricut Design Space. If you are cutting yours manually, print the file contents and use printouts as a template to cut your appliques. Pro-tip: Iron your Heat n’ Bond to the back of your Kona prior to cutting your material!

Step 2: Fuse Appliques: Peel paper backing off Heat n’ Bond.

Using the measurements provided in the image below, situate each applique on your quilt top. Iron the first layer of the applique group thoroughly before moving on to the second layer. Continue ironing each applique group, until all groups have been fused in place.

Step 3: Applique Finishing: Iron Craft Fuse Interfacing to the wrong side of your quilt top, behind frame centers.

Use a satin stitch around the frame interiors. I also did a satin stitch around the outside of frames not quite as ornate.

I was worried that by attempting this technique around the more elaborate applique pieces that I would loose the detail. For these appliques I did a straight stitch to reinforce the bond and deter fraying.

Cut away extra Craft Fuse from the back of the quilt top, up to the satin stitch lines.

Step 4: Quilting your Wallhanging: Iron your fusible fleece to the wrong side of your quilt top, starting in the middle and then working your way out.

Cut your fusible fleece down to match the dimensions of the quilt top. Important to note: if you are using quilt batting leave 3″ excess around all sides of your quilt top.

With your quilt backing face down, lay your quilt top with the fusible fleece/batting on top right side up. Your backing should extend 3″ past all the sides of the quilt top. The extra backing and batting will be a buffer if your quilt top migrates during the quilting process. Pin, tack or baste all your layers together.

To quilt the layers together, I executed a straight stitch just along the edge of the satin stitching around all the frame interiors.

I also like to stitch all the way around the quilt’s perimeter to keep my layers together for binding ease. Make sure to not have your perimeter seam go farther in than 3/8″ from the quilt’s edge. If it does, it won’t later be covered by the quilt binding!

Step 5: Binding your Wallhanging: Cut your binding material on the bias, or forty-five-degrees in relation to the warp and weft of your material. Your strip width should be 2 5/8″ for a 3/8″ wide binding. Cut enough pieces to make a continuous strip at least 145 inches in length.

Join your bias strips with an angled seam, and cut away the excess to leave a 1/4″ seam allowance. Press your bias seams to one side, and then press your bias strip in half lengthwise.

Unfold your bias tape and fold it into a forty-five-degree angle. Begin attaching the binding in the center of one of your quilt’s sides. Sew the bias end 3/8″ from the edge for about 3″. Lift the presser foot and refold the bias in half.

Continue sewing where you left off, this should leave part of the bias end unattached, to stick the bias end inside of later. When you get to a corner, stop sewing when you get to 3/8″ from the next side. Backstitch to reinforce binding, and lift your presser foot.

Fold the binding into a forty-five-degree angle, and then fold the bias back over the fold to be parallel with the next side.

Begin stitching from the edge, making sure to backstitch. Continue these steps until you reach the beginning of the bias. Cut bias excess so there is enough to stick just inside the bias pocket you created, and stitch over all layers to keep in place.

Fold your bias around the raw edge of your quilt to the back, matching the bias fold with the stitch line. Slipstitch binding all the way around.

Step 6: Attach Hanging Sleeve: Cut your hanging sleeve so that its 5″X 31″. Hem ends of the sleeve by folding edges over 1/4″ twice, then stitch along fold.

Fold sleeve in half lengthwise, and then seam raw edges with a 3/8″ seam.

Press seam open, and flip sleeve right side out.

Press your sleeve so that your seam lands in the middle back of the sleeve. Pin your sleeve along the bias of the top of your quilt. Slipstitch your sleeve in place on the top and bottom folds.

Congrats you’re done! Hang your new wall decor up and take a step back to appreciate what you’ve made!

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Ready for your next project? Here are some tutorials on the blog I think you’ll like! Frame Flip tutorial: https://britnijade.com/frame-flip/, Macrame Wall Hanging: https://britnijade.com/macrame-wall-hanging-w-bones/, or the Spider Web Macrame: https://britnijade.com/spider-web-macrame/. Enjoy!

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