Stencil Your Quilt Pattern?!?!

Sometimes, a stencil might be the ticket to not only add interest to your quilt top, but also serve as the quilting pattern itself. In this example I'm using a Shiva paint stick, stencil brush, and open area stencil atop fabric.

Placing some paint stick on a palette or better yet a piece of freezer paper that can be later tossed, scrubbing the paint stick material into the stencil brush, then securing the stencil while scrubbing color through the stencil and onto the fabric.

When all is stenciled on, remove the stencil and wait the prescribed drying time ( Shivas call for 24 hours)

After the paint stick dried, I outline quilted the stenciled area, micro stippled open areas inside the stencil, then added simple straight line structured quilting outside the stenciled area.