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
  • Piecing a diagonal quilt back.
    
    
• Quilt Assembly
  • DIY Best Press substitute
  • Make your own pressing spray
  • Sewing mitred borders
    
    
• 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
  • Notches Sewing – another binding tutorial
  • 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
  • Baby burp cloth
  • Pen holder bookmark
    
    
• Bags & Boxes
  • Fully lined drawstring bag,
  • Gift pouch.
  • DIY Reusable Microwave Popcorn Bag.
    
    
• Travel Bags (cosmetic bag/shaving kit)
  • Boxy cosmetic/shaving bag with concealed seams
  • Boxy bag – OkSew
  • Boxy makeup bag (zipper gap method)
  • Boxy makeup bag (another zipper gap method)
  • Canadian Living – travel bag
  • Jan Howell – boxy bag/concealed seams
  • Jan Howell – Boxy pouch dimensional formula – video
  • Jan Howell – Boxy pouch dimensional formula – PDF
  • Sew Many Creations – multi-size boxy bag
  • Lily Pad Threads by Karen – another ‘no raw seams’ bag.
    
    
• 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.
  • 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.
    
    
• Machine Embroidery
  • Design editing
    • Embrilliance – start here
    • Embrilliance Essentials – changing hoop size.
    • Embrilliance Enthusiast – split a design.
      
      
• Bernina
• Bernina Machine Training – YouTube videos
• Fix error 1010 Maindrive sync failure
• E2E quilting in the hoop
  • E2E ITH quilting tips
  • Pinpoint placement
  • Pinpoint placement tutorial
  • Pinpoint placement – Heirloom Creations
  • Virtual Positioning – Heirloom Creations
  • We All sew – Bernina
    
    
• Miscellaneous
  • Removing blue soluble marker pen marks.
  • Great sewing tips by Notches Sewing.