Archive for November, 2011
Nov 22, 2011
by Jamie Fingal You can make this project with fused scraps, or by selecting the fabrics that you desire from your own stash. I would suggest that you choose 6-8 different fabrics that are the same value, but have contrasting colors, so that when you make your design, the colors will pop when placed side [...]
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Nov 17, 2011
by Kristina Greene Gabalski, Daily News Correspondent – Posted: Saturday, October 15, 2011 2:30am There’s a lot of “quilting” going on in Le Roy these days – not the kind that involves fabric – but quilt designs painted on plywood and hung on the sides of barns. It’s the beginnings of a barn quilt trail [...]
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Nov 14, 2011
Best Scissors For Use With Difficult Fabrics by Leslie Jenison In this tutorial I demonstrate how to use sheers to build a layer over the surface of a project. For this project I took scraps of fabric that had been used for a previous project and fused them to a base-layer of cotton cloth with [...]
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Nov 11, 2011
ESSENTIAL TOOLS NEEDED FOR EVERY QUILTER ~ By Terry White You’ll thank me later…. If you are a beginner to quilting, the tools you need are few. There are, literally, thousands of tools for quilting available to the stitcher…it can be very confusing. So, to simplify, here is a list of the most essential things [...]
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Nov 6, 2011
On The Twelfth Day Of Havel’s, My True Love Is The Rotary Skip Blade Make the Bookmark 1. Start with a piece of fabric with fusible web applied and the paper backing torn off.In this case, I used the leftovers from the labels. 2. Fold the fabric onto itself with fused sides together. This creates [...]
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