I sewed the long seam in another flannel backing but didn't turn on the iron yesterday. Now I have plenty of pressing to do.
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Learn how to make bias tape the fast way! So simple and your binding will turn out perfect every time!
If you’ve ever tackled a quilt with those tricky curved edges, you know the challenge of finding the perfect binding to finish it off smoothly.
Enter the game-changer: making your own bias binding.
It’s the secret ingredient for wrapping up those curves neatly, ensuring your quilt looks as polished on its edges as it does in the center.
I’ll will walk you through the surprisingly simple steps of creating bias binding from scratch.
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The batting is Hobbs 80/20.
Almost all of my sewing time this week was spent making a wall hanging for a swap which will take place next week. I have spent months ruminating over a design and colours and fabrics. I am really pleased with the end result and am in the process of adding the hand stitches to the binding and hanging sleeve. I will show my finished quilt and the quilt that I receive from my swap partner in my next blog post.
It is 70" x 85". The top was finished in March 2023.
It was in the mid 50s yesterday, the second day in a row, kind of unusual at the beginning of February. It's way too early for any outside work here because we will still have another month of winter.
read moreThe face binding method hides the quilt's raw edges while freeing the quilt design from the visual binding's frame. It is very useful for the wall hanging quilts, but it can be used for any type of modern quilt. It also reduces bulk in the corners, and provides nice clean turned edges.There are several ways of doing it. I will show you how I did it.
This ended up 37" x 58", almost 5 feet tall. I didn't have to make any more blocks; they were all in those 11 plastic bags sorted by size. This one is a little different than my previous crooked cobblestone quilts because of a smaller variety of colors in the blocks.
My internet provider sent me a ...
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