Unveiling Four Exciting New Appliqué Dies

We’re busting our buttons with pride as we welcome Janine Lecour and Tiffany Turner of TipStitched to AccuQuilt as new licensed designers along with their four innovative new dies!

Meet Janine Lecour

Surface Pattern Designer Janine Lecour is an Atlanta-based digital pattern designer. She loves vibrant colors and exuberant patterns and is known for mixing bold pattern motifs with eye-catching color palettes to create a whimsical art experience.

Janine has shared her expertise with companies such as Anthropologie, Baby Bling Bows, Blue Sky, Hallmark, Shutterfly and Spoonflower, just to name a few of her clients. You can learn more about her on her website, on Instagram as @janinelecour. Be sure to check out her fabric designs for Spoonflower, too.

GO! Lemon by Janine Lecour

At just a glance you can see Janine’s bright and sunny style in this fun applique die that includes fun and unique shapes that are sure to speak to your creativity. Let’s take a look at some of our new, free patterns made with this die. Think of the possibilities – groves of lemons and limes in a flash, maybe even a basket full of Easter eggs?

GO! Mushroom Medley by Janine Lecour

Janine’s sense of whimsy shines through with this fun die. This one is bound to bring up visions of gnomes, an enchanted forest and more. Those tiny dots? Cutting by hand would be a chore but cutting these shapes with the GO! System is almost magical.

Meet TipStitched

Designer Tiffany Turner is otherwise known as TipStitched. In 2014, she decided to check something off her bucket list – learning to sew. Little did she know that sewing would turn into an all-consuming hobby. Although she wishes she could sew all day, she actually works full-time as an engineer! Besides constructing her own wardrobe that she shares on her blog, she’s also a wife, stepmom and doggie mom. You can find her blog through her website, and on social media as @tipstiched.

GO! Paper Doll and GO! Paper Doll Clothes by TipStitched

Tiffany’s passion for garment sewing comes through loud and clear with her two new dies for AccuQuilt! The GO! Paper Doll and GO! Paper Doll Clothes dies by TipStitched are great for so many projects beyond basic play. These dies work hand in hand to embellish clothing, quilts, wall hangings and more. They’re perfect for sharing a message with the world or sharing playtime with little ones. Take a look at just some of the imaginative free, downloadable patterns available to work with this die duo on our website.

Embroidery Options

With all these amazing applique projects to choose from, it only seems right to take a minute and talk about methods for finishing those shapes off in your projects.

Raw edge applique is always a choice, sewing a straight stitch just inside the raw edge of your shapes with either matching or contrasting thread. Decorative stitches from your sewing machine can be another great option, and for things like wall hangings, simply quilting over the top is both easy and efficient.

If you have an embroidery machine, our website offers free, downloadable outline embroidery for each of these shapes in your choice of satin stitch, motif stitch or blanket stitch. There are also some more detailed designs available for purchase and download on our website.

What could be better than that? Well, those paid designs are 15% off on the website throught February in honor of National Embroidery Month!