In Less Than 17 Hours, You Can Cut 3½ Yards of Fabric into 75 Pieces and Sew 25 Blocks Together, Creating 498 Inches of Fringe....
and a Smile Unlock the Private private secrets of Devising an Improbably Beautiful or Simply Plain Fun and Funky Rag Quilt Exploitation this Proved and Simple, Step-By-Step System
All of the Mysteries of Devising a Rag Quilt are Discovered in This Book
From fabric cutting to seam cutting, you get everything you need in Rag Quilt in a Weekend!
- Binding or no binding? The simple answer is that this rag quilt requires no binding. You wish learn the easy know how for finishing the edges of this rag quilt to secure the inside layer and ensure that your quilt doesn't "fringe away."
- Fringing and finishing - what does it fringe, and how do you created the fringe without laying waste your quilt? All of the techniques to create the fringe and finishing touches are right at your fingertips. Your finished quilt wish age with grace as it is admired and used, and wish be simply as together 50 years from now as it is today.
- Seams open or sewed to one side? That actually is the question in devising this quilt. For patchwork quilts, quilters generally agree it is better to fold seam allowances to one side. Is that true for rag quilts, too? Erstwhile "yes," and sometimes "no." You'll find out once to open 'em up, once to fold 'em over, and why in your copy of Rag Quilt in a Weekend!
- Sew your blocks together with the speed and efficiency of a professional tailor. This book is jam-packed with tips and tricks to save you time sewing your blocks together. Did you cognize that one of the most frustrating parts of devising a quilt is keeping the blocks in the right sewing order? Rag Quilt in a Weekend! lets you in on the private secrets of keeping your blocks in the correct sewing order, and shows you how to speed piece - saving you precious time and energy.
You'll Get Everything you Need
Just imagine reading a set of step-by-step manual for devising a rag quilt. As you see these absolutely clean directions, you feel confident in devising your rag quilt. In Rag Quilt in a Weekend!, you wish find:
- Time and money-saving techniques for cutting your fabric with speed and accuracy.
- Over 70 full color photographs so you can see exactly what your quilt should look like - no guess on the way.
- Each step is explained in clear, friendly easy-to-understand terms so that ANYONE, even as a child, can follow the manual and be booming in devising a rag quilt.
- A buying list of required materials - right at your fingertips. You wish feel like an expert quilter once you go to the fabric store to get your supplies.
- Design your own quilt! This pattern is fun, kind of funky and easy to make. You pick the color and style, devising this your personal quilt, not a traced pattern from a book. Resources in this book manual you through designing your quilt.