Showing posts with label quilt. Show all posts
Showing posts with label quilt. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 4, 2014

Why Dye?: Some Thoughts about Dyeing Wool

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Sue Makinen's Wool Applique Since Sue Makinen has joined us at Threadbenders, we've gone a bit applique mad. It's around the...
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, ...
Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Hand Applique: The Embroidered Edge

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From Rocky Mountain Quilts There's another traditional form of hand applique. Rather than make the stitches invisible, you can...
Friday, April 18, 2014

Seminole Stripping: Not Done in the Nude

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Kathleen McCormick From Cambridge Quilts We've talked about cutting strips and resewing them to make intricate patchwork. T...
Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Bargello U: Easy Bargello Piecing

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We've talked a bit about how to make things in strips that look so much harder than they are. Bargello piecing is so impressive l...
Friday, April 11, 2014

Challenging Times: How Challenge Quilts Help Us Grow

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If you belong to a quilt guild you may have made a challenge quilt. They're fun. You're given several fabrics to work with and you...
Wednesday, April 9, 2014

Solid Backgrounds: Anything but Plain

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Diamond in a Square, Lancaster County, PA, c. 1925. Gift of Irene L. Walsh. We've spent over a week looking at backgrounds.  It...
Sunday, April 6, 2014

A Tale of Three Backgrounds: Blending Multicolor Prints

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We looked at how the size of a print changes it's value last time.  But those prints were all the same colors, one shade of re...