You don’t have to look very far before you come across Free Motion Embroidery or FME as it is known in the business. FME usually goes hand in hand with raggy edge appliqué and the two of them together make a huge style impact. ...
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Today, sashiko continues to be a popular art form and is practiced by stitchers all over the world. It can be used to decorate and mend garments, homewares, quilts, and more – in fact, it can be applied to almost any textile project! ...
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Living in a small space, it’s essential for me to keep my fabric stash under control. I don’t have a dedicated room for quilting, just a corner in the living room for my sewing machine and a few plastic totes to store my fabric. In order to maintain a manageable stash, I have learned to ...
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Washing a quilt can be a daunting task if you have never done it before. Here are some things to know before washing your quilt along with the steps to take to make washing a quilt easy. ...
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This is a term that you will find again and again in quilting patterns all over the world. As in most modern meme uses of the word ‘sandwich’, there are no bread or pickles involved. Instead it is referring to several layers of something (my dog likes a snuggle sandwich, for example) and in the ...
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The double fold continuous strip binding method is a traditional way to finish a quilt with long strips of accent fabric which wrap over and enclose all the raw edges of the quilt layers.
Because the fabric strips are folded in half making the binding a double thickness of fabric, it is one of the most ...
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