NOTE: If you want to cover a French door window like I did, check out exact measurement instructions at the end of this fabric panel quilt tutorial. My fabric panel quilt needed to be 20" wide and 59 ½" tall when finished. Need some help to figure out how much binding, backing, a...
What size of bias binding maker do you need to make bias tape for quilt binding? You'll need a 1" blue bias tape maker to process a 2" strip of fabric, giving you a 1" single-fold bias tape, or a half-inch double-fold bias tape. However, I mostly use a different type, this ...
For instance, the earliest American quilters usually made their quilts by putting small fabrics or strips to an ever-growing top. This was too difficult to work with as the top fabric approached its entire size. Therefore, people found a way to simplify their work. They began breaking their...
You MUST figure out on your machine where the 1/4″ mark is. Once you’ve found it, stitch a test seam, then measure it. I find it helpful to mark that point on my sewing machine with a strip of washi tape. Always keep to the same 1/4″ mark. Quilts are designed so that ...
First let’s figure out how wide our strips should be. If you are making single fold bias tape, you want your strips to be twice the width of your final tape minus 1/8″ (so for 1/2″ single fold bias tape, you need 7/8″ wide strips). For double fold bias tape you want you...
Figure out how much fabric you need. This is easiest if you break each piece of the couch into a rectangle. Instead of trying to figure out how to layout that oddly shaped back piece of my couch with the little round bumps from where the arms are, I’ll just say I need a piece th...
We like using 5" squares, but you can use whatever size you'd like. You'll want to do some math to figure out how many squares you'll need to get a finished quilt. And remember, you need to calculate seam allowance. If you are sewing with a 5" square, and you're placing a 1...
again to our quilter friends. Now, obviously our little pillow example does not begin to compare to the length ofbiasstrips needed forbindingan entire quilt, but we think this will help you to determine exactly how much fabric you will need for any project to which you want to attachpiping...
We recommend cutting all of your fabric into squares that can then be sewn into strips—and from there, the strips can be sewn together to make a blanket. We like using 5" squares, but you can use whatever size you'd like. You'll want to do some math to figure out how many square...