One Piece at a Time: Piecing Tips and Tricks Before we get started here I just want to point you to two really great videos that will really help with your pieced blocks. THIS lovely lady is Beth Hayes, Editor-In-Chief of McCall’s Quilting (i.e. my boss, the best boss ever). She has done this really great video on pressing for our website that you can have a look at here: mccallsquilting.com/mccallsquilting/articles/pressing And THIS lovely lady is Kathy Patterson, Senior Editor of McCall’s Quilting. mccallsquilting.com/mccallsquilting/articles/An_Accurate____Seam_Allowance Be sure to check these out, they really help with piecing! Now for some Half-Square Triangles (HST) The sizes here are what you will need for Jingle Pieced Block #1, but the technique is a good way to make these units all the time using a variety of sizes. Start with two squares. Draw a diagonal line on the wrong side of the lightest of the 2 fabrics. Place on other square, right sides together. Sew 1/4” on other side of line. Cut along the drawn line.
In 20 days | Butterflyfish Heute hab ich noch eine nette und schnelle Bastelgeschichte für Schlangenfans! Wer braucht auch schon Krawatten um den Hals. Macht lieber mal was sinnvolles damit! Die Idee stammt von snug, dem Studio für Gestaltung, welches von Berit und Kerstin mit wunderbaren Produkten ausgetstattet wird, die ihr übrigens auch kaufen könnt (Ganz aktuell: die snug.stars als Weihnachtsschmuck). Ich hab mir vor einigen Jahren schon eine snug.flower zugelegt, aber auch für Kinder gibt es einige schöne Dinge! Auf dem Laufenden bleibt man übrigens, wenn man snug.fan auf Facebook wird. Heute also die snug.diy.schlange mit der wohl kürzesten Anleitung der Welt :) Muster kommen schnell aus der Mode und trotzdem hüten die alten Krawatten den Kleiderschrank.
Mini Quilt of the Month- February: Liberty of London Tana Lawn Cicular Applique For our February Mini Quilt of the Month we decided to venture into the world of circles. So often in quilts straight lines and right angles dictate our designs since they seem more approachable, but with this super simple technique of appliqueing circles, the possibilities are endless! Inspired by the design of our Liberty Swatch Portrait Wall which greets our customers as they arrive in our Soho shop, we used the wonderfully soft and cheerful Liberty of London Tana Lawn in a rainbow of colors. We love the whimsical charm of these colorful circles floating on a soft white background. One can easily get lost in the enchanting designs and exquisitley detailed printing of Liberty of London's Tana Lawn, and its colors, especially when viewed in a rainbow spectrum, are so rich and saturated. This quilt is the perfect way to use small amounts of precious Tana Lawn to make a big impact. Materials Making the Circles Sew all the way around directly on the marked line of the circle. Binding
CRIB QUILT yogi | Sri Threads A Large 19th Century Silk Yogi: Phoenix, Paulownia and Tsutsugaki January 12, 2012 This voluminous beauty is an indigo dyed silk yogi which is dyed in the tsutsugaki method showing a rich and resplendent phoenix or hoo-oo hovering over a spray of paulownia leaves and flowers. The legendary phoenix is an import to Japan from China and it carries with it great symbolic significance. Taken from onmarkproductions.com is this succinct and vibrant description of the phoenix in China and Japan: In Japan, as earlier in China, the mythical Phoenix was adopted as a symbol of the imperial household, particularily the empress. According to legend (mostly from China), the Hō-ō appears very rarely, and only to mark the beginning of a new era — the birth of a virtuous ruler, for example. The kiri or paulownia is an often-seen motif in Japanese folk textiles, usually depicted in a highly stylized form as can be seen here. The yogi is stitched from silk. In: Tags: tsutsugaki, yogi - 1 Comments
Free Quilt Block Patterns - Block of the Month Pinwheel series Free Quilt Block Patterns (BOM) of the Month Series "Pinwheel Series" This series of BOMs focuses on Pinwheel blocks - 12 different The series is now complete with 12 Blocks total For each free Block of the Month in this series I post images of the quilt block, a free Paper Foundation Piecing pattern, and several varieties of quilt top layouts in color to give an idea of ways to use the block in quilts. Pinwheel blocks are very versatile and give much movement across a quilt. They also make wonderful smaller wall hangings, pillows, etc. Quilt blocks images were prepared by Susan Druding with Electric Quilt 4.0 and PhotoImpact graphics program. 2001-2005 Susan C. Susan Susan Druding Come and visit! Click here to visit: Here, below, is a sample of 5 currently discussed topics in our Quilting Forum at Delphi (QFaD), click any discussion to visit as a Guest. See the Table of Contents for Equilters.com HERE SEARCH the Equilters site HERE
Learn how to Paper Piece - Quilting Tutorial from ConnectingThreads.com by Karen Johnson In this tutorial, I'll demonstrate how to achieve perfect points by machine stitching your fabric directly onto paper. This is commonly known as Paper Piecing, or Foundation Paper Piecing, or around here, it's affectionately known as FPP. The Paper - The main concept behind FPP is to use a paper foundation to stitch your fabric block. In this video, I'll show you four different foundation papers: Carol Doak, Vellum, copy machine/printer paper, Stitch 'n Wash Dissolvable Foundation Paper. The papers I didn't demonstrate was tracing paper and freezer paper. If you are only making one block, like our free bib pattern, you can use any tracing paper to hand trace the project. Some quilters love freezer paper, because you can press that first piece directly onto the pattern. Stitch length and needles: The more you perforate the foundation paper, the easier it will be to rip out later. Now it's time to stitch. Here's the video: A few final comments.
With Heart and Hands: Sunbonnet Sue: Free Quilt Patterns We all know Sunbonnet Sue. Some of us love her, some of us have appliqued or quilted her and some even remember her from childhood days. Whether you know the pattern as the Sunbonnet Sue, or the Dutch doll, Bonnie Bonnet, or as the Sun Bonnet Babies....she's been made into quilts, painted on nursery walls, appliqued onto clothing and goes back to our grandmother's or even great-grandmother's time. Many of the illustrators of the late 1800's and the early 20th century drew playful children with big hats or bonnets, but only a few are recognized as being Sue's earliest illustrators. But it is another illustrator, Bertha Corbett Melcher, who is officially regarded as the "Mother of Sunbonnet Babies." An early Housekeeper magazine reprint of that article describes this time of her life. 0, we are the Sun-bonnet Babies.Good morning, and how do you do? We all are so very polite,We never so much as look,But laugh away about our play,All through this wonderful book.... by Bertha Corbett Melcher
Free Quilt Block Patterns:UPDATED for 2012 Updated every few months, these 1,000 quilt block patterns will all link directly back to their creator and source of the design! I have been collecting these for a year now and they come from a variety of sources. I am just linking you...to them! Enjoy!!! If any links appear broken, it means you must sign in for free (McCalls etc) before you can view them. The others link directly. 1930's Square1941 Nine Patch25 Patch Variation54-40 or Fight 6-inch Quilt Block Patterns9-inch Quilt Block Patterns10-inch Quilt Block Patterns12-inch Quilt Block Patterns12" Summer Winds Quilt Block Pattern
Lone Star Block tutorial | Hopeful Homemaker I mentioned here that I made a center block for three different medallion quilts. Two are Marcelle Medallion blocks from the medallion pattern in the Liberty Love book. The third was for the design as you go Medallion project we’re currently working on with the Utah County Modern Quilt Group. After our last meeting there were a few people who hadn’t yet settled on a block and I had a request for instructions on how I made mine. To begin, choose five fabrics for your star colors. Keep in mind that the fabric you choose for #3 will be the most prominent fabric, with #1 in the very center and #5 on the outer tips of the star. Cut 1 – 1.5 inch wide x width of fabric strip from fabrics 1, 2, 4 and 5. Now we need to create three sets of strips. At this point I carefully starch my fabrics. All seams in this block should be an exact 1/4 inch seam. Sew your three sets of strips together in order, but start each strip about 1 inch down from the previous fabric as shown above. And it’s done!
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