Make jelly roll strips from your own fabrics using a winning combination of prints, blenders and solids. Pull it all together with color and you’re ready to sew a quilt anytime. Key Highlights Why Make a Quilt with a Jelly Roll? Jelly roll strip bundles are appealing to quilters for many reasons. They save time, are easy to store, offer…
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How To Make Jelly Roll Strips
Making Progress as We Please on BOM Quilts
Make progress to please our creative selves is fun…and sometimes, hard work. Ripping, rethinking, redoing, repeat. So much goes into making a quilt – color choices, fabrics, values and layouts – If you can’t please YOU, who can you please?! It’s all progress and progress is good, even if it feels like we’re going backwards!
Make an Amazing Jelly Roll Quilt: A Complete Tutorial
Make an amazing jelly roll quilt with my newest design, Pathways. Sewing this pattern is a happy medium between piecing blocks and color improv. Make it as shown or experiment with your own layout – either way you’ll love it! Here’s how the tutorial goes: Key Highlights Lining up the stripes can be a bit tricky. It’s totally doable and…
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Freezer Paper Piecing {Tutorial}
Freezer paper piecing will save you so much time and *tears*. No more ripping out those tiny paper bits for hours! Oh, my achy, breaky fingers! In this post, I’m sharing a free modern triangle block pattern, Scrappy Whirligig, and a tutorial to make it with the freezer paper piecing technique that I’ve taught to thousands of quilters in my…
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How to Use Fabric Cutting Templates for Foundation Piecing
Fabric cutting templates are made for getting the best results with foundation paper piecing. Cutting the right shapes on the correct side of the fabric and cover the ENTIRE foundation makes sewing a lot more fun! Also, I’m answering your burning questions about how to place your template on the fabric (face up, face down?) and how many layers to…
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