June Dudley talks about Lee Heinrich’s piece “Chain Reaction” from Quiltmakers Magazine in March 2012. She also covers different versions of this piece made by Bonnie Stapleton, Melissa Radtke, and Donna Hanley. You can learn how to make this piece with the new sizes from precut 2 ½ inch strips.
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The Right Needles for Your Sewing Machine
Heather Thomas explains in depth the benefits and qualities of each sewing machine needle. These tips and techniques will help you choose the right sewing needle and what needles work well with different thread. Learn the many possibilities associated with specific needles and threads. Use these tips to start sewing more efficiently with different sized…
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How to Cut Fabric for Quilting Blocks
Laura Roberts teaches you how to cut novelty fabric into little squares and make it into a block. She recommends using fabric with motifs that are easy to cut out to make a block, but also shows you how to use stripes, a bias cut strip, a border stripe and templates you may have made.
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Making Scrap Quilts with Torn Bits and Strips
Heather Thomas talks about using torn bits and scraps of leftover fabric on smaller quilting projects to create fun, unique pieces. She shows several examples of her own work, including a project that she based off of her daughter’s scribbling and a few pieces that contain schlubs, or thread that gets left behind in the…
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Hand Beading on Fabric with Bugle Beads and Single Stitch
Heather Thomas teaches you how to hand bead so you can add even more extravagance to your quilt. It is very simple to learn and she teaches you using only five basic stitches. The different types you will learn is the bugle stitch that uses bugle beads, the stack stitch using multiple fancy beads, a…
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Interesting pattern and good directions, but she should have shown the 3 quilts she described in the beginning, as well as the one she mentioned that used the leftover pieces in the border. I was disappointed they weren’t shown after she talked about them as if she was about to show them.
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I agree. I was looking all over the place for the example quilts she was talking about and could not find them anywhere. She should have showed them in the video if she was going to reference them.
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She talked about examples and the examples never got edited into the video. You lost me in the beginning.
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I agree
Where can I get the pattern for the Chain Reaction Quilt prefer it written to video?
Hi Linda. We are sorry, but we do not have the pattern for this.
I’m lost because she starts on hers before I’ve even seen one even though she kept saying as you see or as we can see.
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She needs to be a little more organized. She really needs to show examples that she talks about. As a teacher, myself, she needs to have more confidence in herself. It was hard to stay interested as she was very monotone with her teaching.