Tips, Tricks & Tutorials

Here’s a listing of my favourite tips, tricks & tutorials. More to come as I built the list.

Categories:

• Piecing
  • Accordion sewn HSTs (Half Square Triangles)
  • furling your seam allowances
  • need a large panel of randomized squares?  Try this:  https://www.bloom-australia.com/bloomblog/2011/08/nifty-strip-piecing-trick.html
    
    
• Quilt Assembly
  • DIY Best Press substitute
    
    
• Quilt Care
  • How to fix fabric bleeds by Susie Quilts
    
    
• FMQ (Free Motion Quilting)
  • Angela Walters’ swirl hook
    
    
• Binding
  • bind your quilt the easy way with a serger
  • Donna Jordan’s flange binding
  • Donna Jordan’s quick method for binding
  • how to make continuous bias binding
  • Judy Cefalu’s binding tips
  • Notches Sewing – how to sew mitred corners and join binding
  • Notches Sewing – how to join binding strips with stripes
  • Quilt label on your binding.
  • Tula Pink: constructing bias binding from striped fabric.
    
    
• Hanging sleeve
  • Adding a sleeve to your quilt after it’s bound
  • Two ways of adding a hanging sleeve
    
    
• Other
  • Spa hair towel
    
    
• Scrappy
  • Scrap busting (Facebook reel)
    
    
• Free patterns/tutorials
  • Baby Elephant free quilt pattern.
    • Donna Jordan’s ‘Scrap Strips Diamond Trip’.
    • Donna Jordan’s ‘Jelly Roll Drag Race‘.
    • Donna Jordan’s Lone Start Quilt from a jelly roll.
    • DIY Reusable Microwave Popcorn Bag.
    • Gift pouch.
    • Honeysweet Table Topper.
    • Hipster Cat.
    • mini oven mitts by Sew Can She.
    • Pen/Pencil Bookmark Holder.
    • Sew Can She free patterns.
    • Shwin&Shwin free patterns.
    • Serger quilting.
    • The Questioning Quilter.
    • Tonga Focus.
    • urban elemenz free digital embroidery pantographs.
    • Vinuta Sewing – Youtube tutorials.
    • Zipper pouch tutorial – inserting the zipper.
      
    • Bernina
      • Pinpoint placement
      • Pinpoint placement tutorial
        
      • Miscellaneous
      • Removing blue soluble marker pen marks.