Fabric Tips
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Wednesday, October 8th, 2008It’s easy to find fabrics in colors and prints we love using! Each of us tend to like and use certain colors and prints. We develop a pattern on what we like and continue using it. But sometime it’s fun to get out of our comfort zone of fabrics and colors and try a new [...]
Take a peek into my sewing room: Bookcase fabric covers
Wednesday, March 12th, 2008~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Click the video player to view the tour of my sewing room. It may take a few minutes to load. For those of you with a dial-up connection, you can “view” the tour by reading my description below.This is a series on sewing room organization and storage, complete with videos! Over the next few weeks, [...]
Cut on the lengthwise fabric grain!
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008Quilt sashing, borders and binding can be cut across the width or down the length of the fabric -both are considered straight of grain. We know they should not be cut on the bias grain because of the great amount of stretch bias has, but should they be cut lengthwise or crosswise?
Here’s a quick fabric [...]
Minkee fabric: fun to feel, hard to sew!
Saturday, February 16th, 2008I love using Minkee fabric for anything soft and fuzzy such as stuffed animals such as these, baby blankets, bath robes and the backing on quilts. But as wonderful as that soft fabric is, it can be a nightmare to sew.
Here are some tips that might prove to be helpful when stitching with this [...]
Mark Those Fabrics!
Wednesday, January 16th, 2008There are many pens and markers available to use for marking fabric for quilting and embroidery. Water soluble, air soluble or heat soluble; which one is the best? Blue lines, purple lines or white lines; which one is the most needed? How are the marked lines removed from the fabric? Can the marks be pressed [...]
Leftover Batting Scraps
Tuesday, November 27th, 2007Do you have a stash of leftover batting from your quilts hiding in your sewing room? What do you do with it? Keep it and let the pile continue to build? Do you piece it together to make more quilts?
Many times larger pieces of batting can be pieced together with an open or sewn-out zigzag [...]
Spray Adhesive: Spray the fabric or the stabilizer?
Wednesday, November 7th, 2007Spray adhesive is great to use for machine embroidery and decorative stitches! My favorite brand to use is 505 Spray Adhesive because it holds the fabric to the stabilizer while I’m stitching, but is not stuck so tight that I can’t peel off the stabilizer after I’m finished. But what is the best to spray [...]
Catch the Color!
Tuesday, October 16th, 2007It’s inevitable. It just happens. The fabrics are not washed before sewn together in a quilt or perhaps they were, but they still bleed a little when washed. Red, black, navy and denim are notorious for bleeding. The easiest way to prevent bleeding dark colors to lighter fabrics is to separate the lights and darks [...]
Another great fabric selvedge idea!
Tuesday, October 9th, 2007I received the following email from Kathie in regards to fabric selvedges and their uses. I found it useful and thought many of you would also!
Another terrific thing about selvedges is that they are soooooooostrong. If you save them, you have a stash of material for tying up lots ofthings: stacks of newspapers, plants, the [...]
Keep those fabric selvedges!
Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007Every piece of fabric you buy has it – a fabric selvedge! That’s the part of the fabric we immediately cut off and throw in the trash. Now, wait a minute – let’s back up…did I actually say, throw in the trash? We as quilters, notorious for our creative uses of scraps (every little square [...]
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