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Quilting
Quilt Class 101: Week 4
01 year ago
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This is where we are up to in this week’s Quilt Class at Chasing Cottons, sewing half square triangles, also known as HSTs. Can’t wait for next week’s class – constructing our quilt top. See you in class.
It’s Basting Time
01 year ago
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The floor is finally cleaned and mopped and that could only mean one thing … … basting this quilt top because I really want to be able to say that I’ve finished a quilt. Making a quilt sandwich seemed straight forward enough or so I thought. I followed Elizabeth Hartman’s instructions but found it a read further...
Cutting Basics
11 year ago
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I’ve been attending Quilt Class at Chasing Cottons for 3 weeks now and this week, it’s all about cutting. I was most interested in this post as I don’t think I knew how to cut properly. I’d never even used the guide lines on my cutting mat ever. So today, I cut my white fabric read further...
SEAMS right?
21 year ago
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While working on the second Lawn Chair Quilt (the first one can been seen here), I decided to try pressing my seams open as suggested by Elizabeth Hartman in her book and blog. I do like it this way as the seams are pressed much flatter and contrary to what Elizabeth says, I do read further...
Rome wasn’t built in a day
01 year ago
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and neither are quilts sewn in a day. That’s wishful thinking on my part. If there were only more hours in a day and I didn’t have to feed, bath and entertain the kids. If only. Anyway, I started on a jelly roll quilt a couple of weeks ago, and I’m happy to say that read further...
Help! Dull blade
21 year ago
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I started on a sewing project that required this stack of fabric to be cut into various sized pieces … and fabric strips to make a quilt. All this fabric cutting has left my rotary cutter blade quite blunt. I’m not quite sure what it is, but my blades don’t stay sharp for very long, read further...
Never fear, I’m still here …
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Did anyone miss me? I wasn’t gone too long was I? I had some internet issues, well, not really an issue but I did use up our internet allowance for the month and was throttled down to dial up speed. Man, do you know how SLOW it was? I would have finished breakfast, do the read further...
