Turned appliqué tends to turn some away (and draw others in!), but what if I told you that I had a trick up my sleeve? Take a look at how I quickly (and painlessly) create these appliqué circles that only *look* hand-turned.
Turned appliqué tends to turn some away (and draw others in!), but what if I told you that I had a trick up my sleeve? Take a look at how I quickly (and painlessly) create these appliqué circles that only *look* hand-turned.
Big Stitch Binding is my new favorite thing! The best part is that there are only a few supplies needed to get started! From there, use your favorite embroidery stitches or a simple running stitch to add this loving detail to your quilt bindings.
We are so close, I can almost taste the sugar cookies!
This week we will be adding our borders, after that we’ll start the long process of quilting and binding these beauties.
This week we’ll go over how to best create the star of this quilt show!!
…no really, it’s time to work on our star block! This part isn’t all that difficult, but you want to make sure to pay careful attention to it as you work because it’s where we trick the eye into thinking our brick-style-layout continues behind the piecing.
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If this is your first time sewing with Shorthand Templates, I suggest practicing a few from start to finish before batch-making them as I show in my videos below (if you haven’t cut yours out yet, see the post from last week here). The key to creating these blocks isn’t necessarily doing them exactly how I’m doing them, but being consistent with how you choose to create them!
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