Make Beautiful Quilts with Brenda
By brenda | November 25, 2008
Once again, welcome To www.MakeBeautifulQuilts.com! I’m quite excited to create this site for you and I hope that you find it extremely useful in your quilting career!
Unlike many quilting books and quilting Internet sites, I’ve deviated from the norm and presented many topics that never seem to get the proper attention. Thus many quilter’s find their quilting experience to be less then stellar. I’ve tried to arrange the subjects to cover things from the ground up.
To start we will be talking about the tools of the trade. We will be covering the essentials and some of the nice to have toys. It is not an exhaustive list of tools, as I couldn’t keep up. I will however, continue to provide reviews on new quilting products that can really enhance your quilting experience.
Seems like every day, someone comes out with a better quilting tool! Although, the tools of the trade section, will give you a pretty good understanding of what is out there. You will be able to talk with the quilting shops at their level being sure of what you really need and what just looks very nice to have.
In coming months, we will be talking about your biggest tool, your sewing machine. I’ve really focused here simply because of the fact that a lack of understanding in regards to the sewing machine is probably the largest reason why quilter’s spend more time frustrated then fulfilled.
General operation will be discussed with a brief description of the functional parts on your sewing machine. My objective is to ensure you are completely familiar with your sewing machine and we can properly focus on the ins and outs of making quilt blocks when we arrive at those topics.
Next, we will be discussing fabric, in terms of choice of color and properly determining the amount you require. We will get to the nitty-gritty of figuring out how much fabric we will need for a project. This really will go a long way to saving money when it comes to purchasing your fabrics.
Cutting will also be covered. I will be showing you the proper function of the tools mentioned in the tools chapter. I will be also disclosing a lot of the real secrets of cutting to save time, energy and frustration.
Finally, we will proceed at sewing the blocks together ensuring they are straight and square! You will begin to see all the steps covered are part of a whole. I’ll touch into some advanced patterns and techniques, but to be honest, once you’ve gotten to this point, you will find a lot of your previous issues will have been overcome.
Please enjoy, and be sure to send me your questions and your quilt pictures! I would love to display them on my web site for all to see!
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