Heather Thomas teaches you some ideas for playing with fabric in unexpected ways, including long strips of leftover fabric pieces. By twisting these strips, you can make round textured cords for couching onto your quilts, opening up a whole new design opportunity. In this video, she shares some creative ideas and shows examples of the technique in action.
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5:49Bead Embroidery on Quilts
Heather Thomas teaches you how to effectively add excitement to your quilts through beading. See many examples of quilts that contain accent beading and find out the appropriate time to add beads to your quilt. Learn how to add different styles of beading to your quilts as well as how to hide your beading knots…
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7:12Art Quilts: Use of Contrast
The art of quilting cannot be without contrast. There are many types of contrast, but there are six main types that we rely on as quilters. Heather Thomas walks us through these types by showing us some samples, and teaches us how we can identify the types of contrast we are using in our quilting…
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5:23Flower Applique Using Silk Cocoons
Heather Thomas provides a unique technique for adding flower applique to your quilts. Learn how to make flowers out of silk cocoon fabrics. Find out how fun and easy it is to add more beauty to your quilts by adding simple flowers. Go through each step with Heather and begin making a quilt full of…
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7:28Shadow Applique Techniques
Peg Spradlin demonstrates how to combine shadow applique with colorful pieces of fabric and felt that are overlaid by translucent fabric such has batiste, organza, voile, or muslin. First, audition different colors with the translucent fabrics because you may not always get the result you expect. From there learn how to stitch the two fabrics…
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