A Few Tips for Stained Glass Sewing

Hi, I'm Ali Aller, and I want to show you just a few quick tips to make your sewing easier when you're going to do stained glass quilting. Now I, I like to use letting. That I've fused onto a background that's my basic method but sewing that letting down involves a few tricks. What I want you to know first of all is always have a sample quilt sandwich to try out your letting and try out your stitching to make sure that your machine's working right and that your stitch length is gonna work and your thread's gonna work so always have a sample that's like the number one rule for me. Use a new blade in your rotary cutter when you're gonna be cutting these nice strips for your letting you don't want any nicks and you don't wanna have to recut where you skipped because it's really hard to be accurate if you go over a cut, so put a new blade in your rotary cutter.

Sharp scissors have a piece of paper on your work surface so that when you're cutting along and you're fixing the ends of your letting and you're creating all these little bits you wanna have them on a surface that you can just throw away you don't want it to get all over your project surface, so always have a piece of paper on hand for your bits. And then the last thing I like to do is if I've got threads or little pieces of letting that I don't want that are that I've cut off and I wanna clear my surface, I use masking tape as a blotter. I mean you could you could use a lint roller but I just, I keep a roll of painter's tape and I just clean up my surface just like that and toss it. So this is another must have tool in my sewing room along with the sandwich and the sharp blade. And the tape, those are the ways I use to make my sewing goes more smoothly.