Grid ruler and roll of clear first aid tape.
A great way to keep your grid rulers from slipping, when cutting fabric, is to add a few pieces of clear first aid tape to the underside of your ruler. 👏❤️
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Tulip fabric patch, on sandpaper mat, with tulip cardboard template, pinking shears and white chalk pencil.
A most useful tip, when preparing your appliqué patches – If you use pinking shears to cut curves, it avoids most of the need to clip.🪡🧵
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An easy way to fix it, is with an ‘Easy Threading’ needle, because you can slip the knot into the eye of the needle & then pull it back under. 🪡👏
Always wondered what to use those needles for! 🤔😂
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Easy threading needle, ready to pull knotted thread, between the layers of a quilt.
I like to bury my knots, between the layers of fabric, on my quilts.
Sometimes, while stitching, one pops back out. 🙄
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Brown rickrack stitched down with darker brown cross stitches.
I also have used cross stitches, to stitch down rickrack! 🪡🥰👏😻🤎
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A row of black cross stitches, along the edge of red with white polka dot fabric.
There’s something so charming about a row of cross stitches, along the edge of fabric.
In this case I’m using them to hold down the binding of my mini quilt. 🪡❤️🤍🖤
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Ribbon butterfly on a small Rickrack woven mat on point, with a Daisy flower in each corner.
I hope you’re enjoying all my posts about the versatility of rickrack as an embellishment, this week.
I recently made a small woven Rickrack mat, using 3 different colours. 🪡🥰👏💙💛🩵
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Red Rickrack with pink French knots
…Or add the French knots beside each peak of the rickrack! 🪡🥰👏💚🩷
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Pink rickrack as a frame, around Sunbonnet Sue & Overall Bill, with a green French knot on each peak.
Another pretty detail you can add to stitched-down rickrack, are French knots, made with embroidery floss! 🪡🥰👏💚🩷
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Yellow rickrack wrapped with green perle cotton, with a diagonal detail.
You can decorate stitched-down rickrack by threading a contrasting thread (like perle cotton), underneath. Go through in the same direction, all along, using a blunt needle, to get this barber pole effect.
More charming!! 🪡🥰👏💚💛
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An example of using cardboard guide, to space my ‘x’ stitches.
Sometimes, when adding embroidery stitches, I find it useful to use guides, I’ve marked on a piece of cardboard, that allows me to easily space my stitches — more evenly, than eyeballing it, and without having to mark the fabric.
It’s never perfect, but always charming! 🥰🪡👏
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Quilt block with embroidery, including a pair of needle nose pliers.
When it becomes hard, to pull thick thread through several layers, I’m glad to have my needle nose pliers to help! 👏🪡🧵
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Old spool of thread.
📍The eye of a hand sewing needle is larger on one side, than the other.
If you have trouble threading your needle, try turning it around. 🪡🧵
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Egg cups with pins in them.
Today’s quilt tip: 📍👏
youtu.be/ZzpjGt3vnRE?...
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Using thread to transfer design to fabric tip.
🎦 Today I’ve got a tip for transferring an embroidery design, using thread!
youtu.be/v8VvoypsF7U?...
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Mist with water (from a spray bottle) and press well from behind.
The towel absorbs the appliqué shapes, keeping all your lovely work, as you intended.
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Mechanical pencil, pincushion & small scissors.
A mechanical pencil is a perfect tool, to draw lines – for your quilting & sewing.
It’s a thin, consistent line, that makes accuracy easier! 👏🪡🧵
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🪡🧵 It’s All About Knots for Hand Quilting, in my newest 🆕 video!
youtu.be/7lGzKKYFvAQ
Several ways to make them, how to bury them & knotting off, so no knots are visible, on the outside of a quilt.
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Thread & Needle Tips, Tricks & Tidbit.
🪡🧵 Needle & Thread Tips, Tricks & Tidbit for Hand Stitching
🆕 That’s what my newest video is about!
youtu.be/tnE4kg4z-Ak
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Perpendicular Pinning Tip for Matching Seams.
📍 Perpendicular Pinning Tip.
🆕 I posted a video showing this tip, today.
youtu.be/UjXU6DAiNtQ?...
Are you a pinner?
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Scrap of cotton batting with blue fibres on it.
Note to self: Scraps of cotton batting do a great job of cleaning the cutting mat! 👏🤩
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Close up of appliquéd circles.
New to me… 🤫🪡🧵
I didn’t have spools of cotton sewing threads, that matched the patches I was appliquéing, but did have matching embroidery floss.
A single strand stitched the circles beautifully! 👏
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Embroidery.
When I need to run the needle, under the floss – like when stitching these Spanish Knots – I like to use the eye of the needle, instead of the pointy end.
This prevents accidentally catching the threads, I’m trying to stay under. 🪡🧵
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Silk ribbon.
An easy way to press the wrinkles out of silk ribbon, is to run it across the steaming spout of a boiling kettle.
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