CLASS PROJECTS
Posted by mountaintopquilting on Thursday, July 30th, 2009
What great combinations of fabrics the girls came up with from their stash for putting together their Star Table Mats. Everyone came with a collection of fat quarters for possible use and left class with a pieced mat all ready for quilting and finishing. Some of the techniques we covered and topics of discussion during class …
- Tips and food for thought when choosing fabrics and working color, value, and scale of print
- Template construction … when to buy a template and when to make your own; which materials work best when making your own templates (My favorite is using several layers of Extra Thick Template Plastic stuck together with double stick tape.)
- A refresher on making better use of all the lines and angles on our rulers
- A new ruler for some … how the Omni 96 can work with stash busting through our strips
- Point trimmer, corner cutter, corner trimmer … lots of different names for several tools that do the same thing and make our piecing more efficient and more accurate
- Piecing with partial seams opens up a whole new world of design possibilities
- Bias edges and steam … be careful but remember they can also help a potentially easily distorted block lay nice and flat
- Spray starch or sizing can make a big difference in stabilizing potentially dangerous grain lines in a patch
- Beautiful bindings even with funny angled edges
- Taking the project a step further by moving beyond the table mat into other projects using more blocks … exploring the layout possibilities.
A book referenced during class you might want to check out …
Happy Endings by Mimi Dietrich
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Classes by Kay
