I signed up for a UFO challenge at my local quilt shop and I hope to complete ten UFOs by March 31! I think I have a good chance of getting 8 completely done, and two will just have some progress made. Will post a list of the projects in the next few days so you can can see...
Flat-felled seams are great and strong seams that will look good both from the front and the back. If you're new to flat-felled seams, you might be surprised how easy these are. See the steps and fast-forward to a polished and neat seam edges - cheers to all your future sewing proj...
The quilt has longitudinal seams (8) dividing it into pockets (4) filled with insulating material. The central pockets are also divided transversely to form smaller pockets. The back (5) of the quilt has an unbroken surface and this faces upwards in the winter to improve insulation, while ...
above), so when the pandemic started I decided to use my orange scraps for a doll quilt of half-triangle squares that finished at one inch each. (I used Vanessa Christensen’s Ombré Confetti Metallic for the background.) A tip: quilts with tiny pieces and so many seams are bulky and ...
I press all of my seams open so that the blocks lie super flat and I pin next to each intersection so that my points and corners wil match. I place my pins perpendicular so I can quickly grab them before sewing over them. Each row had an odd number of blocks, so I left the odd ...
55 seams per block and 36 seams to make quilt = 1435 seams 6300 inches of quilting How’s that for some crazy quilty math??? I may not use Algebra in my quilts other than in making the Variegated Squares quilt I shared earlier this week. Creating the 600 diagonals was the most time...
If you just barely had enough room to get the old one out, then getting in the new one will be harder than parking an F150 in a Boston parking garage. You are going to have to rip those stitches back, waaaaay back. You are going to want to rip out enough seams to be able to ...
The stitching is fairly simple: the squares are first stitched to the borders, then filling and backing is added. If you can sew a straight line, you can create a quilt like this in just a few short hours. Along with the mountain mural, it adds another layer of interest to the room....
I did buy the fabric on clearance at a quilt shop in Salt Lake City called Pine Needles. They had put a large selection of home weight fabric on sale for $4 a yard. I am kicking myself for not having bought more! I used scraps for the design fabric (For better or worse, I ...
“True” the shoulder seams so they still match. The final step is to decide how long I want the gathered peplum to be and cut that out. I can use the widths from the dress pattern. I’m going to use the neck facing from the pattern with the new neckline. Because the patterns I ...