Tips & Techniques
The quilting videos listed here are our absolute favorite tips and techniques that every quilter should have in her arsenal. Follow along with expert instructors as they demonstrate essential quilting skills, tricky techniques, and clever tips.
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33:08Fun Finishes for Raw Edges
When you applique a project, you often want a nice edge and clean finish! Lauran Roberts teaches you several fun finishes for raw edges. Learn how to stich inside the edges and see many of her finished examples. Improve your quilting skills today by using these helpful tips and techniques for stitching the raw edges…
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30:44Making Stamps
Heather Thomas teaches you two different ways of making rubber stamps for painting your quilt fabric. Find out what materials you need and what tools work best for making stamps. Learn how simple and fun it is to make your own stamps for painting the fabric on your quilts. Take advantage of these helpful tips…
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24:35Creating Pictures with Foundation Piecing
It’s time to get creative and make beautiful images with foundation piecing. Dana Jones demonstrates helpful tips and techniques for making perfect images of people, animals, objects and much more. See several examples and learn how to create your very own quilt of an any image you’d like.
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15:23Stenciling with Shiva Paintstiks
Heather Thomas shows you how to use stenciling with shiva paintstiks in quilt and garment making. Whether you rub or paint it directly, the color is permanent and washable. You’ll learn about the tools you need for this process, including stencil brushes, orange cleaner and baby wipes. You will be shown how to make freezer…
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26:21How to Change the Size of Quilt Blocks
June Dudley wants to make a more creative quilt using different sized blocks, but only has one sized block template. Follow along and find out how to mathematically enlarge or shrink your block to fit your needs. You will need a calculator, graph paper, the block you want to use, and your thinking cap. Click…
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24:03How to Make a Needle Book
Laura Roberts shows you how to make a simple needle book out of wool. Learn how embroider it, add an index, and finish it with a button to keep it closed. Some of the materials you will need are five pieces of felted wool (5 x 6), snaps, handmade paper, and fusible web.
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10:53Image Transfer Techniques
Heather teaches you about two of her favorite ways to photo or image transfer something permanently. First, learn how to decide what kind of printer you should be using. Once that is resolved, see how to transfer your image using two different methods using some of Heather’s recommended materials.
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10:39How to Transfer Images to Fabric
Heather Thomas talks about a hot new technique called image transferring. Learn to take a photograph or image and transfer it to fabrics, papers, or mediums that are washable. Discover different techniques that allow you to be creative with your quilting such as a cotton fabric with paper backing, lutradur, SewPaintable, Inktense, and digital ground…
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2:13Fusible Applique Techniques
Paula Stoddard teaches you how to create fusible applique for your next quilting project. She walks you step by step through the quick and easy process of fusing applique with a hot iron and a simple cutout shape.
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