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    Home » Blog » Tips and Tricks

    Quick Quilting Tips and Tricks

    May 19, 2014 by Amy 8 Comments


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    We had so much fun in round one of Quick Quilting Tips, I thought it would be fun to ask more bloggers and quilters to share some of their favorite quilting tricks, tips, and short-cuts.

    Monday April 28
    Tea Rose Home – Tips and fussy-cutting templates for English Paper Piecing
    April Rosenthal Designs – Quick borders
    Ellison Lane – Piecing using starch
     
    Tuesday April 29
    Stitch This! Martingale Blog – quick un-picking and de-threading tips
    Amy’s Creative Side – Bulk Pressing
    Bee in my Bonnet – scrap storage and creating your own pre-cuts
     
    Wednesday April 30
    Fresh Lemons Quilts – Choosing fabrics for a quilt
    PolkaDot Chair – 3 tips for beginning quilters
    Stitchery Dickory Dock – Fast cutting tips
     
    Thursday May 1
    Freshly Pieced – sew more without stopping
    Lily’s Quilts – fast machine-binding tutorial
    In Color Order – Chain Piecing
     
    Friday May 2
    Swim Bike Quilt – Binding tips
    Craft Buds – Pining Alternatives
    A Quilting Life – Quarter Square Triangle Tutorial

    Monday – May 19
    Sew Can She – Nesting Seams
    Fabrics and Flowers – Paper Piecing with Less Waste
    Don’t Call Me Betsy – Stream-line pressing techniques

    Tuesday – May 20
    Quilt Story – Labeling a Quilt
    Pile O Fabric – Starching Fabric and Glue Basting
    A Little Bit Biased – Quick Rotary Cutting

    Wednesday – May 21
    Christa Quilts – 5 tips for faster machine quilting at home
    A Bright Corner – Quick curved seams

    Thursday – May 22
    Piece N Quilt – How to attach borders and sashing
    Sukie Don’t Ya Know – Making Bias Binding
    Gen X Quilters – Scant ¼″ Seam

    Friday – May 23
    Cut To Pieces – Quilt Tips for Quilt Backs
    Happy Quilting – Quick Flying Geese blocks

    Glue Basting techniques with Cristy Fincher.

    Follow Amy’s board Quilting tips and short-cuts on Pinterest.

    They’ll be doing it all week long – you can visit each of them on their specific day. I’ll also be adding their posts to the Quilting Tips and Short-cuts Pinboard where you can keep track of all the links in one place.

    I’m in my post-quilt-market-haze but will plan to get my head together and share pictures later this week. If you want some sneak peaks you can check out my Instagram feed @diaryofaquilter.

     

     

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    Comments

    1. Catherine

      May 20, 2014 at 12:22 am

      Thanks for these helpful links to the tips and thank you again for the super fast despatch of your book, I'm still trying to decide which to try first!

      Reply
    2. Michelle Carlson

      May 22, 2014 at 3:27 pm

      Thanks for posting the links. I love your quilts and look forward to seeing what you whip up next.

      Reply
    3. Karen

      May 23, 2014 at 6:56 pm

      Amy, thanks so much for hosting these tips and tricks! As a newbie, I really appreciate learning from experienced quilters–and all these bloggers were great.

      Reply
    4. reham magdy

      July 17, 2014 at 11:31 pm

      ggggggggggggg

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