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Get quilting news, straight to your inbox Sign up to receive our newsletter! Sign in to manage your newsletter preferences Sign in. Sign me up! Anyone for patchwork sweetpeas and a sweet robin? Issue 27 came with a foundation paper piecing supplement filled with beautiful quilt blocks to FPP by Lynne Goldsworthy.
If you can cut up to four layers at a time without shifting, that's good. To help hold the layers together, press the them together with your iron. Cotton wants to stick to itself. The pressure and heat of the iron encourage this tendency. Yes, you can. Print one copy, confirm it's the proper size and then print as many copies as you need.
For me, it's too easy to click the wrong button and end up with 25 copies the wrong size. Having the lengthwise grain run in the same direction through your block and, in particular, having the outside edges of your blocks onthe straight of grain make for more stable, less stretchy blocks.
But the choice it ultimately up to you. You may not have enough fabric to use the grainlines. You might want to fussy cut a particular patch. There may be other reasons you choose not to use the arrows. Just make an informed decision that works best for you. If you find that there's all sorts of bias edges in the patches, I suggest using a liberal dose of fabric starch. It will help minimize the stretching. Click here to learn more about starching your quilting fabric.
I guess there must be a reason since they all say to add it to fabric, but wouldn't be easier to add it once on the template? I'll address each instance where quilting templates are used. Note: I'm going to use the abbreviation 'SA' for seam allowance. Applique templates can be used with several different techniques. For fusible applique, you don't add any SA. For needleturn applique, you do add a seam, BUT So adding a SA to the template would actually make for more work. Think of a daisy shape with many petals, all cut as a single patch.
If those petals are close enough together, adding a seam allowance to the template may obliterate the space between the petals. The appliquer is left wondering where exactly to stitch.
She'd have to go back to mark the stitching line. Extra work without any gain. The 'exactness' of the SA isn't important. It needs to be big enough so that the SA is stable and won't pull out. The quilter is actually matching the drawn line of one patch to the drawn line of the second and intentionally stitching directly on that line.
A hand-piecer doesn't have a quarter inch guide like a sewing machine does. She'd have to go back and measure and mark the stitching lines. For the machine piecer, yes, having the SA added to the template would make it easy It's much easier to add a SA with your rotary cutter and ruler, than it is to line up the edge of that same ruler with a solid cutting line—particularly if you're cutting many, many of the same template shape.
You can see this on the templates for the Carolina Lily quilt block. However, for applique blocks like the Magnolia Blossom, no SA is added. Click here to see those templates. Even with those SA automatically added, I cut my shapes with templates by aligning the quarter inch mark on my ruler with the solid black stitching line.
I believe this makes for more accurate cuts and shapes. It's simply much easier to see. Even 9-patch. Each block in this library is constructed with only the most common tools found in nearly every quilter's studio. That said If templates for unusual shapes or paper pieced patterns are needed, they are available as free downloads, printable on your home computer right from the instruction page.
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These are the techniques I go back to time and time again for accurate piecing results. Check the amazing resources I rely on for the majority of the quilt block designs you see on this website. Need a needle? Pull it and replace it with a pin to tell you at a glance what needle is in your machine.
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