Watch the replay to learn a bit from Colleen Tauke! She chats with the community about Holiday projects and tools you need to get your quilting friends this season.
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1:01:46NQC LIVE! July 2016
In this month’s NQC LIVE with Heather Thomas, learn about accurate cutting and piecing, proper ways to enlarge blocks, and how to ensure your backing fabric is lined up. Heather also gives tips on embellishing, including how many different embellishments to use, as well as how to make sure the end result is balanced. Heather…
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During the January NQC LIVE, Heather Thomas discussed where to begin quilting you quilt, whether to pre-wash your fabric or not and when to use products like Retayne and Synthrapol. She also provided tips for how to tell if you are buying a high quality fabric or not.
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You can also do a burn test on a remnant – pure cotton burns to ash, synthetics will form a plasticky bead.
I have finished a pieced flannel top. I would like to use a soft fur polyester fabric on the back. Will this create too many problems during washing due to dissimilar fabrics? If not,any suggestions when using different fabrics?