Here are some helpful tips and hints submitted by our members. If you have a tip or hint to share, please contact Lori Redman.
Tina’s Mega Shop Hop Reports
These are links containing information on more than a hundred quilt stores in New England, plus a few stores in the Midwest:
General Tips
- Pillowcase directions can be found on our Community Service page.
- Martha’s KN95 Mask Cover directions
- Grandmother’s Choice handout by Tina van Roggen
- Large Layer Cake Block quilt by Barbara Weiss
- Tips For Pat Pauly’s workshop on Big Leaf Design by Barbara Weiss
- Tips for Modern Block Group April block by Barbara Weiss
- Links for fabric twine tutorials:
- Using an Empty Spool of Aurifil Thread as a Tube Turner
- The Three Dudes Quilt: Easy Quilting with Rob Appell
- Triple Play: Three 3-Yard Quilts
- String Quilt-As-You-Go
- Breast Cancer Heart Pillow, Breast Cancer Heart letter, Directions, Template
Disappearing Hourglass
- Disappearing Hourglass and Pinwheel blocks handout by Tina van Roggen
Disappearing 9 Patch Links from Eileen
- Quick, Easy, Fancy! FREE PATTERN Disappearing Nine Patch Quilt! From Jordan Fabric
- Double disappearing nine patch quilt block – from Teresa Down Under
- Disappearing 9-patch blocks 4 ways from Teresa Down Under
- Disappearing 9 patch with pinwheels block from Teresa Down Under
- Make a “Framed Pinwheel” Quilt with Jenny Doan of Missouri Star
Finishing your Quilt
- How to piece a quilt back with a diagonal seam to save fabric:
1) Blog with good photos showing John Flynn’s method, 2) John Flynn’s webpage telling how it happened, 3) Jinny Beyer’s web page that does the math for you - Spray Basting your quilt
- Binding by machine
- Flange binding (note that Barbara Weiss likes to use 1 7/8″ for the flange and 1 1/2″ for the binding)
- Binding using the backing
- Joining the ends of the binding using a seam
- Adding a sleeve to your quilt (PDF)
- Video for adding a sleeve to your quilt