    |
|||
|
|
by Cousin Sarah Hello there friends, family and fans of NGCO! I’m Sarah, Josh and Jessie’s cousin. Jessie asked me awhile ago if I wouldn’t mind sharing some baby food recipes and tips with you all and I said sure! I love making baby food. I like knowing exactly what is going into my little guy’s [...] At the time I made this quilt, I posted instructions on how to make a snowball block and how to sew a quilt top together, but I also photographed the process I go through to make appliqué letters. After finishing the letters on the aprons, I thought it would be a good time to post a [...] What is the next step once you have all the blocks for a quilt made? Sewing the top together, of course! For the quilt above, directions on how to assemble its blocks are posted here. To understand the following steps, please keep in mind that the goal is to sew the blocks together into rows first, and [...] I love my design wall. My dad built mine, and although I can’t tell you exactly step by step how he made it, I can tell you the materials we used and the basics of the construction. I began by searching online for automotive headliner – thanks to watching an episode of Quilt in a [...] Quilters love using continuous curve quilting as an easy, effective, and aesthetically pleasing way to quilt within patchwork shapes without having to mark lines. It’s similar to how hand quilters would use outline quilting to quilt 1/4" inside a patchwork shape. For machine quilting that would mean a lot of starts and stops and we [...] I love using spray starch to prepare my fabric for patchwork because of the body and crispness it gives the fabric. I first pre-wash all fabrics before using them in a quilt. After I wash my fabric in cold water (speed cycle – little detergent), I dry it in the clothes dryer on regular heat (no [...] The following is a review on the photo fabric sheets from the Electric Quilt Company used for the anniversary quilt project I recently completed. The photo fabric sheets come backed with a thin plastic film which allows for easy feeding through a desktop inkjet printer. There were only a few times that I had problems with [...] Once you have your appliqué shapes ready to go as shown in a previous blog entry, the only thing left to do is stitch it to your background fabric. 1. Cut the background piece of fabric slightly larger than it should be. The appliqué stitches may cause your fabric to pull in or distort. Once the [...] |
||
|
Copyright © 2008-2010 Jessie Zeigler - All Rights Reserved |
|||
