I absolutely love this fabric range – I made a quilt for our Great-Niece in November last year to give as a Christmas gift and it came out so nice! Not least because the fabrics are so stunning! I had some fabric left over and decided there was just about enough to make up a…
Hey guys! Here’s the first of the quilt block series for 2023. We’ll be adding more as the weeks pass and will then cover squaring them up and sewing them all together to create a lovely quilt top! Black Textured blender (https://supercrafts.co.uk/100-cotton/…) Silver Textured Blender (https://supercrafts.co.uk/100-cotton/…) Thread (https://supercrafts.co.uk/thread/811-…)
The amount of blocks needed for a quilt of a certain size will be determined by the actual size of the block. This post covers quantities for the 12.5” blocks we’re creating in our youtube series, but a little jiggling around with the numbers and you’ll be able to figure out other sizes too. Firstly,…
The full tutorial video can be found on Youtube here. This page serves as a requirements list for that video. All measurements are given in inches. Colour 1 [CORAL] (https://supercrafts.co.uk/100-cotton/1205-textured-blenders-spot-cotton-print-coral-per-metre.html) Colour 2 [PURPLE] (https://supercrafts.co.uk/100-cotton/1203-cotton-fabric-textured-blender-in-purple-per-metre.html) Colour 3 [TURQUOISE] (https://supercrafts.co.uk/100-cotton/1201-cotton-fabric-textured-blender-in-turquoise-per-metre.html) Colour 4 [NAVY] (https://supercrafts.co.uk/100-cotton/805-cotton-fabric-textured-blender-in-navy-per-metre.html) Colour 5 [MUSTARD] (https://supercrafts.co.uk/100-cotton/1149-306-plain-cotton-lots-of-colours-available.html#/72-colour-mustard) Colour 6 [GREEN] (https://supercrafts.co.uk/100-cotton/1204-textured-blenders-spot-cotton-print-lime-per-metre.html) WHITE (https://supercrafts.co.uk/100-cotton/756-cotton-fabric-textured-blender-in-red-per-metre.html) To create binding,…
Measure roughly 10 inches at the end of the binding. If you’ve not actually made your binding yet, take a look at our previous post on this here. This is the point we’re going to begin sewing. We need that tail left unsewn so we can join the binding together – we’ve a super-easy way…
The first step is to figure out how much binding you need to make for your project. Measure your quilt (or other project). You need length plus width times 2 – then add on 10-12 inches. This will give you the length you need. Once you know how many inches you need, cut strips of…
This is really important. The last thing you want is for a loose thread to be pulled and pulled until your gorgeous quilt is pulled apart.
The information contained in this post is taken from my book “Learn to Quilt”. I’m adding this here in order to provide a little information for quilting a new product, the Geo-Applique Horse Quilt. If you’ve already purchased the pattern, thank you, and I hope you enjoy the finished project as much as I did….
Our first small batch of Christmas fabrics arrive a little while ago now, however I’ve been puttin gall my efforts into our new book. While we have oodles of work at the moment, I couldn’t resist starting the Christmas blog posts. Here’s a tutorial for this wonderful cushion cover, for which I used the glorious…
Hey guys! So… I’m part of many sewing groups and one question I’ve seen come up a few times this past week is “How do I prepare a quilt for quilting”. With that in mind, and limited time for blog writing at the moment, I thought I’d put together this simple tutorial. I’m not preparing…
