Improve Your Quilts: 37 Troubleshooting Techniques
Discover the answers to all of your quilting conundrums! Unlock 37 techniques that will transform your quilts from good to great.
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Discover the answers to all of your quilting conundrums! Unlock 37 techniques that will transform your quilts from good to great.
Fabric Choice
Meet Laura Nownes, your guide to new and improved quilts. Laura walks you through the process of picking out the right fabric and shows you how to find inspiration in the everyday. She also walks you through the basics of using value and contrast, and demonstrates fussy cutting.
Tools
Good quilter’s tools are invaluable! Laura shows how to identify and troubleshoot issues with rotary cutters and walks you through machine settings that will set you up for success. Next, you’ll learn how to select and work with rulers, threads, pins, needles and more tools that will make your work easier and more efficient.
Cutting
It’s common to encounter problems while cutting, but Laura shows you how to reduce your frustration and even takes the word “mistakes” out of your vocabulary in the process! Discover the best way to fix unwanted surprises as Laura walks you through incorrect fabric widths, frayed edges, off-grain strips and more.
Sewing & Piecing
Sewing and piecing present more than their fair share of challenges, but Laura has solutions to help you along the way. She takes the intimidation out of the equation, demonstrating techniques that will help you prevent mismatched intersections, lost points, bowed strip sets and distorted blocks.
Pressing
Laura shows how the best pressing methods and a little steam can fix the wobbliest of strips, the biggest bubbles and other common quilting blunders. She also offers tips on how to create perfect half-square triangles and shares an inexpensive, homemade fix for a dirty iron.
Assembly
Assembling the pieces of your quilt comes with its own surprises and challenges. Laura shares her tips for joining blocks of different sizes, troubleshooting sashing problems and problem-solving for a variety of borders.
Binding
You’ve put a lot of time into your quilt, and now you’ll learn how to complete it using professional finishing techniques! Laura shows how bad binding can mar the best of projects, and offers tips on how to get sharp corners, join ends seamlessly and fix floppy, curvy or loose binding.
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