Napkins and Placemats: One-Size-Fits-All. Easy Hooded Bath Towel. I’ve made each of my kids their own bath towel hoodie when they’re born, starting with my son 6 years ago.
I make them one with their name on it and one with a fun appliqued shape on the back. These towels are super easy to make, needing only limited sewing know-how. Printable Bias Tape Maker! You all know how much I love using cardstock folding templates, right?
For a few years now I've been playing with the idea of a cardstock bias tape maker. Whenever I had a project involving bias tape, I would experiment, fail miserably, and scrap the idea. Well, right now I'm working on a Sis Boom pattern that requires picture perfect, 1/2" wide single fold bias tape. Embroidery 101 - simple backstitching. I thought it might be nice to show you a basic embroidery stitch today.
The great thing about embroidery is that it can spice up a shirt (or anything else made of fabric) and you DON'T need a sewing machine to do it. Some of you have probably been embroidering since birth, but for those of you who have never tried it, I'm going to show you how easy it is today. I needed a shirt to go with this skirt for my niece, so I bought a plain white one and embroidered this little bird on it.
Simple, cute, and not too hard. Andie johnson sews: Disappearing 4-patch Tutorial. This month's block for the Block Lotto is a disappearing 4-Patch or a 4 to 9-patch.
What a cute block! And the red and white color scheme - love! My kids' school colors are red and white and I can just see an adorable, cuddly quilt wrapped around my legs and hiney at hockey games and track meets. I think I need to win this batch (Sophie! Help a sista out!) Unexpected Starts. Black and White Horizontal Striped Curtains {made from tablecloths} Hi everyone!
I finished the curtains for the front room... It took me a while to get around to it, but I think it was worth the wait. Baby Quilt Disappearing Scraps by Rubyru on Etsy. The Wonderful Half Square Triangle Quilt. My second UFO is finished. In the linen areas I decided to quilt it with freemotion quilting using 'sort of' straight lines. The difference between using the (for freemotion quilting) instead of the (for straight line quilting) is a bit of a wonky, homegrown look to the lines of quilting instead of perfectly straight lines. To help get the lines 'sort of' straight and give myself something to aim for, I added a few lines with a blue washout pen just before I quilted each block. In the coloured areas I simply quilted in the ditches. The backing is a Kaffe Fassett Shot Cotton in . Especially when I take the colour out of the photo... The binding I chose has to be the most boring binding I have ever used....the same colour as the linen essex blend.
PamKittyMorning. Sewing Machine Needles & How to Choose Them. From Manda: When you become the owner of a sewing machine, you often sit down and read through the user manual, to familiarize yourself with which stitch to use for which fabrics and how to clean it, thread it and all the other general aspects of running a machine.
What you don’t always do however is familiarize yourself with which sewing machine needle to use. If you’re anything like me, you tend to stick to the universal needles (often sizes 10 -16) that come with the machine. And also, if you’re anything like me you’ll often find yourself in the position of wondering just why the tension suddenly seems wrong, or you’re suddenly dropping stitches. Choosing the correct type of needle for the right sewing project is a task that many of us find a little daunting. But it needn’t be, it’s just a case of matching the type of needle to the type and weight of fabric and understanding that needle types relate to the structure of the fabric they are used on. . « Winners! Artgalleryfabrics.typepad.com/Continuous Binding 101.pdf. * Binding 1-2-3. Unexpected Starts. Chevron quilt tutorial.
Buzzelli's Quilts: Star Flower Quilt. Schmetz Needles — Schmetz Needles. Loopy Flowers Quilting Tutorial. This technique is not difficult, but it's trickier than some, so I recommend it for quilters who are already confident free motion quilting with a meandering stitch.
For the loopy flower quilting, set your machine up the same way you would for any other kind of free motion quilting (lowering or covering feed dogs, setting stitch length to zero, etc.). If your machine has an automatic needle down function, engage it. If your machine doesn't have this function, be sure to manually lower your needle every time you stop quilting. Start where you want the center of your the flower. Pull the bobbin thread to the top. Hold thread tails and begin quilting.
Continue stitching around circle two or three times. Moving out from the center, still in a clockwise motion, stitch a rounded petal, as shown above. Continue around the center circle, stitching as many petals as you like and ending at the point on the center circle where you started. My flowers were placed semi-randomly, as I worked. Free-Motion Quilting. This is a simple overview of free-motion quilting on a home machine.
For a post detailing my process for managing the size and weight of a larger quilt during quilting, please refer to my post on the Modern Quilt Guild blog. I prepare my machine as follows: Fit machine with darning/free-motion foot.Set stitch length to zero.Lower or cover feed dogs (depending on the machine).Fit machine with a brand new needle. Quilt Patterns - Jigsaw Puzzle Quilt Pattern - Jigsaw Puzzle Baby Quilt Pattern. Use my jigsaw puzzle quilt pattern to sew a colorful scrap quilt.
Jigsaw puzzle pieces emerge when adjacent parts of traditional 'H' quilt blocks are rotated -- the little squares along the design's midpoint become the tabs that "lock" each piece in place. The cutting instructions on page 2 of the jigsaw puzzle pattern are for a baby quilt sewn with 6-inch square blocks, but you'll find cutting info for larger quilts with either 9-inch or 12-inch blocks on page 5.