In this video, Heather Thomas teaches you a fun way to spice up your quilt borders with some free motion quilting. She teaches you how to stitch some simple leaf designs in your borders, and then how to fill them with a bevy of fabulous fill motifs as you explore the play of curvy and straight designs.
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5:17Heather Thomas talks about some important elements of design used in your quilting – lines and shape. Learn about the definition of both along with how the two are used together to make dynamic quilts. You will see gesture lines, fire lines, lightning lines, and curvy lines as well as shapes that are geometric, abstract,
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9:26Heather Thomas discusses Tyvek® Fabric and the way it can be used to create a unique art quilt. Tyvek material can be melted to create a hard, stone-like design. Watch as Heather discusses this very artistic quilting project – including how to paint and melt your Tyvek. Create texture and depth in your next project
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4:49Heather Thomas presents some fun quilt border ideas as well as teaches you how to create a quilt border that isn’t straight edged so that you don’t have to do all the calculations and you can create unique edges that you’ll be proud of. She shows a few different examples of her own work, and
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7:25Have you ever finished a quilt, stood back and looked at it, and felt that something was missing? In this video, Heather Thomas demonstrates a clever idea for using twisted ribbon and couching to jazz up your quilt’s border and add that extra something.
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