Souper Bowl applique step by step photos

We’ve had the question “can we use neutrals for the background?” the answer is NO but you can use tints and shades of the colours in the colour palette given. Another question! Yes you can use fusible web instead of appliquéing by hand BUT please try to keep the bowl-and-shadows soft and flexible, rather than allowing the rigidity that sometimes…

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Fussy Cutting

Fussy cutting is all about carefully cutting your fabric so to feature a particular image. No one likes it when parts of your image get chopped off or sewn into the seam allowance. Here is a very quick how-to about aligning your cuts carefully.  In this exercise, and for the block lotto this month, we…

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May block lotto – Polaroid blocks!

This month we are trying out a now-classic modern quilt block. This block was all the rage way back in summer of 2012. Googling it will give you loads of tutorials. We think it started HERE, then spread to HERE, HERE, HERE, and HERE and we are sure there are more examples on-line.  But this is here and…

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Meeting tonight!

Come join us from 7-9pm at 505 Marigold Road.  We are showing the “Make it Modern” mini-quilt display as well as our usual program. Check out the “meetings” tab for more info. 

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