Tutorials
Shows how to measure and cut quilt borders
Tutorial at From My Carolina Home Blog
- Tutorial - How To Make A Denim I Spy Rag Quilt
To make this rag quilt you will need a stack of old jeans Tutorial at Hangry Fork Blog "Here’s a super cute denim I spy rag quilt I made last week. This quilt is made from my husband’s old jeans so I’m calling this quilt “The Fart Quilt”....
- Tutorial - How To Fix A Mistake In A Finished Quilt
How to lift patches that were sewn wrong in a finished quilt Tutorial at From My Carolina Home Blog "Sometimes the excitement of finishing a project gets the better of me and I do something careless in my haste to finish. Well, that happened with...
- Tutorial - How To Rework A Quilt
How to take a quilt completely apart and requilt, using the skinning method. Tutorial at From My Carolina Home Blog "I promised to show this some time ago, and I haven’t had a moment to do so until now. For what it is worth, I don’t recommend...
- Tutorial - Shortcuts For Making Half Square Triangles
Time-saving tip for quilts with HSTs Tutorial at Musings of a Menopausal Melon Blog "When I finally decided upon the borders for my daughter's grad quilt this past week, I found the number of HSTs required to surround the quilt centre for the design...
- Tutorial - How To Add A Hanging Sleeve To A Quilt
Make either a permanent or a temporary sleeve Tutorial at From My Carolina Home Blog "It seems like all I have been sewing lately are hanging sleeves for quilt shows. I have a quilt in the FBC Memory Makers quilt show during the Apple Festival ...
Tutorials
Tutorial - How to Add Borders to a Quilt
Tutorial at From My Carolina Home Blog
"This tutorial is to teach the why of putting on a border properly on a quilt. There are countless new and experienced quilters using what we call the “slap and sew” method instead of the proper “measure and cut” method. I thought I would show you the difference, and maybe convince you that the slap method isn’t a good one. In order to do a proper job showing the difference in the two methods, I needed to make a couple of samples to use. So, I did quarter-square triangles, mainly because it would optimize the bias edges and make the point clearer. So, I sewed up 18 of them, squared them all up, and set them in rows of three".... Read more
- Tutorial - How To Make A Denim I Spy Rag Quilt
To make this rag quilt you will need a stack of old jeans Tutorial at Hangry Fork Blog "Here’s a super cute denim I spy rag quilt I made last week. This quilt is made from my husband’s old jeans so I’m calling this quilt “The Fart Quilt”....
- Tutorial - How To Fix A Mistake In A Finished Quilt
How to lift patches that were sewn wrong in a finished quilt Tutorial at From My Carolina Home Blog "Sometimes the excitement of finishing a project gets the better of me and I do something careless in my haste to finish. Well, that happened with...
- Tutorial - How To Rework A Quilt
How to take a quilt completely apart and requilt, using the skinning method. Tutorial at From My Carolina Home Blog "I promised to show this some time ago, and I haven’t had a moment to do so until now. For what it is worth, I don’t recommend...
- Tutorial - Shortcuts For Making Half Square Triangles
Time-saving tip for quilts with HSTs Tutorial at Musings of a Menopausal Melon Blog "When I finally decided upon the borders for my daughter's grad quilt this past week, I found the number of HSTs required to surround the quilt centre for the design...
- Tutorial - How To Add A Hanging Sleeve To A Quilt
Make either a permanent or a temporary sleeve Tutorial at From My Carolina Home Blog "It seems like all I have been sewing lately are hanging sleeves for quilt shows. I have a quilt in the FBC Memory Makers quilt show during the Apple Festival ...