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I have several old workhorse machines in the sewing room. As I was taking one apart a day or so ago, it occurred to me that this is such an easy thing to do, but most sewing enthusiasts are scared of it. Truly, if your machine is older, out of warranty, you have nothing to …
Continue reading How to Clean and Care For Your Older Sewing Machine
The binding is almost done. Part four will cover how to hand stitch the binding to the back. The edge needs to be folded over to cover the raw edge of the quilt and stitched down. There are two key things to this process. First is to ensure the corners have perfect miters front …
Continue reading Quilt Binding Tutorial Part 4 – stitching the edge to the back
Quilt along with me as I show you how to bind a quilt. I use a lot of pictures so this full tutorial is in four parts. If you missed the first two parts, you can see Part 1 Making Bias Binding and Part 2 Sewing Binding to the Quilt by clicking on those links. …
Continue reading Quilt Binding Tutorial Part 3 – joining the binding ends
Sewing the binding to the quilt is rather easy, just follow along the edge. The corners are tricky, but not too hard once you know the secret. Remember that quilting is based on accuracy and precision, and your binding should be that way too. See Part One on How to Make Bias Binding if you …
Continue reading Quilt Binding Tutorial Part 2 – sewing binding to the quilt
Binding a quilt is easy, and enjoyable. I like to have some hand work to do in the evenings, and whipping a binding down is one of my favorite things to do. I know, I am nuts. For those who are newer quilters, I am going to do a multi-part tutorial on bindings. It has …
Continue reading Quilt Binding Tutorial Part 1 – Making bias binding
I am so ready for warmer weather and more flowers, so I decided to make a wreath for the front porch. I was inspired by several I found on Pinterest, but as usual, I have to do things my own way. While we are doing this, I'll share my secret for deciding what to use …
Squaring up a block is the best way to be sure that your blocks are all the same size. This is easy, but can be time consuming with a lot of blocks, on say a king size quilt. But it is worth the time. It will ensure that your quilt lies flat, and that the …
I was in a cute quilt shop while on my last vacation, and found an adorable coffee motif panel. It had six little mug rug size motifs. I had to have it along with a yard of the coffee bean fabric that went with it. Getting home, I pulled out my coffee color stash …
One of the comments on my tutorial on borders was a question on how to miter with prints. Luckily, the question came at a good time when I had just had two of my friends over to help me do just that. I still had some of the fabric, and I could take some close …
Since I now have three quilts mostly the same, I decided to continue the experiment in color with the binding. If you missed the beginning of this series, click on this link to see the thread color experiment. I think most of the time I tend to put a contrasting binding on a quilt because …
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