trip around the world tutorial

Unpicking....................... from Exuberant Color

I cut one strata of the William Morris Trip Around the World project and got 16 loops. I need 14 to have one complete sequence (because I have 14 fabrics). I unpicked a different seam on each loop to see what one quarter plus center row at right and bottom will look like.

As I explained in my tutorial last week (label is Trip Around the World tutorial on my label list and also at the bottom of this post), I could now move strips from the left one at a time to see what each fabric looks like at ...

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Trip Around the World tutorial 4.................... from Exuberant Color

As you read the following paragraph, you may start wondering what you are going to do with the piece you just removed from a loop. It is just a scrap to be used in another project, or it can be used to create a full sequence of the fabrics into a strip to be used on the back or to replace a problem unpicked loop. Now that you don't need to worry about that, here are the final directions for the Trip Around the World quilt.

For the bottom half of the quilt, you don’t want duplicate pieces ...

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Trip Around the World Tutorial 3 from Exuberant Color

Before you read the next paragraph I want to explain the 'breakpoint position' is the fabric that touches the outside edge at the center of all 4 sides. In other words, it is the fabric that makes the largest diamond shape in the quilt.

Second, you don't have to decide what fabric is going to be in the center of the quilt at this time. You will be able to audition a lot (or all) of the fabrics after you have unpicked a full sequence of loops.

I have previously posted photos for what is described in the first ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 1 week, 6 days ago. under trip around the world tutorial

Trip Around the World tutorial 2 from Exuberant Color

A few facts before I go into the next step of the tutorial.

Don't cut off selvages before you make the stratas. The first clean-up cut from the strata tube will trim them off....and you may need 1/8" of the selvage area to get the number of loops you need from a strata tube.

I don't pre-wash regular printed cotton fabrics so I will get more loops per tube than those of you who prewash.

Batiks don't have the wide unusable selvages so you can always get more loops from a batik tube.

You are ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 2 weeks ago. under trip around the world tutorial

Trip Around the World tutorial 1 from Exuberant Color

Trip Around the World tutorial 1

I will be using parts of my hand out sheets when I taught this class over 100 times, to do this tutorial.

Back in the 1990s, before mattresses were 11" - 15" thick, my measurements were good. Now if you are actually making a bed quilt, you might have to add 2 or 3 borders to these sizes. The chart is at the end of this post. To use my directions you need to have an even number of fabrics.

After you decide on the order of your fabrics, take a photo to refer back ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 2 weeks, 1 day ago. under trip around the world tutorial

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