Sunday Morning Quilts: 16 Modern Scrap Projects • Sort, Store, and Use Every Last Bit of Your Treasured Fabrics
Amanda Jean Nyberg, Cheryl Arkison
Language: English
Pages: 144
ISBN: 1607054272
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Are scrap piles wreaking havoc in your sewing space? Not sure what to do with all those tiny bits of gorgeous prints you hate to part with? Modern quilters Amanda Jean Nyberg and Cheryl Arkison share a passion for scraps, and they’re here to help you get creative with 16 scrappy quilt projects that include piecing, appliqué, and improvisational work. This book has ideas on how to adapt patterns for your own personal “Sunday morning” style, plus tips for effectively cutting, storing, and organizing your scraps. Your Sunday mornings just got a whole lot cozier!
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The middle, and then cut another piece in two. Sew these to either side of the full width of fabric. Two seams are better than one. Buying a sheet for the back is also possible, but it is not recommended. The thread count of sheets is much higher than that of quilting cottons and linens. It can present a whole host of challenges when quilting. It’s doable, but is usually not the best or easiest option. All the patterns in this book provide you with the yardage needed to make a backing. You.
Are still around—and some of them are in these quilts. Embrace the roots of your quilting history and quilting in general. Take those scraps and move forward with these bold designs. You, and your fabric, will be very, very happy. What Is Modern? Our quilts are decidedly modern. A lot of factors combine to put them in the modern category. Design, construction, fabric choice, and color all influence whether a quilt is seen as modern. Perhaps what is most important, though, is how you see your.
Backing: 4 yards • Batting: 68″ × 68″ • Binding: � yard or 2 strips 3″ × width of fabric to match each color used for blocks CUTTING BINDING: Cut 2 strips of each color 2½″ × width of fabric for 8 binding strips. ABOUT FABRIC SELECTION Of course you don’t have to do a neutral quilt with this design. Pick any four colors and a neutral or five favorite colors to make the blocks. Don’t pick more than that, however, unless you want to create additional large color blocks—for example, in a 2 × 6.
Strip of background fabric. The pictured quilt (page 123) has between 15 and 19 gumdrops per row. Align the flat edge of the gumdrop with the bottom edge of the fabric. Vary the distances between gumdrops and vary the colors of the gumdrops within each row. Fuse the gumdrops to the fabric according to the fusible web package instructions. 2. Repeat for all 22 rows. 3. Arrange the rows. 4. With right sides together, sew the rows together and press the seams away from the gumdrops. 5. When the.
Starting a project, she pulls all the fabrics for said project entirely from her stash. PREWASHING OR NOT Prewashing is always a big debate among quilters. Neither of us prewashes our fabric—unless we are using batiks or reds. We would both doa light prewash on these as they have a tendency to run. For more on prewashing, see Before You Start Sewing (page 42). Another reason to prewash both fabric and batting would be if you wanted to minimize the crinkly look in your finished, washed quilt.