Showing posts with label piecing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label piecing. Show all posts
Friday, May 30, 2014

What Kind of Fabric is That? Why Cotton and Wool are Queen and King of the Quilting World

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Peg's new wool applique block There's a mystery solved on the end of every fabric bolt. You can probably find the manufacturer, ...
Friday, April 25, 2014

Exploring Piecing and Applique: Yes, You Can Do It All

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Applique quilt from Quilt Sister You've probably heard people declare, I'm a "piecer", or" I do applique". T...
Friday, March 7, 2014

Biased: Introducing Bias Cut Fabric

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We talked last time about the construction of fabric and what " straight grain" means. From Threads Magazine Basically it...
Sunday, March 2, 2014

Sewing Against the Grain: Knowledge is Power

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Thermoweb.com When most of us start to quilt we usually start with projects that look pretty easy. Square pieces, simple straight lines....
Sunday, February 23, 2014

Fussy Cutting for Pieced Quilts:

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 Fussy cutting for piecing has to always take the seam measurement into account. You want to look at the pieces put together with the sea...
Friday, February 21, 2014

Novelty Prints: Picking Prints for Fussy Cutting

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Fussy cutting is ALL about the fabric.It's picking the exactly right print for a quilt and then picking out exactly the right image in...
Sunday, October 20, 2013

Great Strip Quilts from Painted Panels

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We love this new kind of print. They're not really panels, but they do feel like a panel. They're a yard long repeat of a paint...