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Drape a plush rainbow over your bed or favorite reading chair with this dramatic quilt. The bold visual impact belies its simple construction. To make the quilt top, Heather Jones shows you how to pare down a pack of jelly roll precuts and use simple piecing techniques to create a juicy gradient of color.
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In this gorgeous, color-filled class, Anna shows quilters how to make a vibrant quilt using half-square triangles and squares. This is a perfect class for combining scraps of fabric from your stash. Anna begins by walking quilters through the process of sorting their fabrics into color groups, and from there she demonstrates how to cut and piece the squares and half-square triangles. The real fun begins when Anna goes to the design wall to lay out...
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In this class, Heather Jones shares how to make the iconic Ohio Star quilt block. Using half square triangles and quarter square triangles, you will learn how to precisely sew the pieces together to create this crisp, geometric design. Bind and finish your block to create a quilted wall hanging, or use the block to make a funky, modern throw pillow.
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Expert quilt designers Kaffe Kassett and Liza Lucy walk you through every step of making the eye-popping Rosy Quilt top. Using vibrant large and small-scale prints, the version shown here is a modern take on the very first design Kaffe and Liza ever created together. Kaffe provides wonderful insights on how the colors and prints work together, while Liza teaches the basics of cutting and piecing the patchwork. Perfect for beginning quilters and anyone...
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This is a simple quilt with a strong impact. Heather achieves her clean, fresh design through strip-piecing - a shortcut where you cut and sew long strips of fabric together, then cut them into blocks. You'll also learn how to add sashing. And because this is a lap-size quilt, it's perfect for beginning quilters looking to build confidence and pick up techniques while creating a stunning modern quilt.
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With funny names like "fat quarters," "honey buns," "jelly rolls," and "charm packs," fabric precuts can certainly be mysterious. In this class, Heather Jones explains what each of these classic quilting terms means and provides great ideas for using these precut fabrics in your next quilting project.
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Quilting designer Ashley Nickels demonstrates the traditional method for attaching binding tape to a quilt -- a fundamental technique every quilter needs to know. Step by step, you will learn how to pin the binding to the quilt sandwich, attach it using the walking foot on your sewing machine, create mitered corners, join the ends of the binding, and finish with a hand-sewn blind stitch. Watch Ashley's How to Make Binding Tapeclass for a quick lesson...
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Modern quilter and designer, Heather Jones, shares how easy it can be to transform visual inspiration into patchwork goodness. In this class, learn how to construct a bold and contemporary quilt block that pays homage to her favorite artist, Josef Albers, and his series of paintings titled "Homage to the Square." This crisp design and easy construction allows for creative freedom, so you can scale your block to a different size, or have fun playing...
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Ashley Nickels shares a simple, modern approach to designing your own pixelated jelly roll quilt top, with lots of time-saving tricks built into the process. You will learn how to lay out your quilt on a design wall, and then chain-piece the squares without having to pin or clip. Best of all, there's no ironing until the very end, so you can speed through the piecing process in a flash. Ashley demonstrates this process on a crib-sized quilt top, but...
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Create a whole new topography on your quilt tops simply using whole pieces of fabric, batting and thread. Modern quilter, Carolyn Friedlander, shares eye-opening ways to approach wholecloth quilting, giving you a broad overview of hand-stitching and machine-quilting techniques. You will learn how to make modern tied quilts and combine big basting stitching in vibrant designs using Perle cotton and wool yarn. Plus Carolyn shares her tried-and-true...
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Explore this classic quilting block that works equally well with traditional or contemporary fabrics. The blades and center of the block are made separately and then attached to the background fabric, so you can experiment with different fabrics and placements. Kathy walks through a range of different fabric combinations to show the different effects. She also shows how to work with a wedge ruler, as well as offering a download to create your own...
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Now that you have machine or hand quilted your quilt, it's time to finish it. Sue shows you how to block and trim your quilt so you are working with a quilt that is square and lays perfectly flat. Then she shows you how to add straight double binding with mitered corners and join the binding for a clean join. Finish with a sleeve if you are going to hand, and add a label to document the date of your masterpiece.
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The Double Star Quilt top features a striking combination of light and dark fabrics, with a star-within-a-star motif radiating from the center. Using a mix of special prints and half-square triangles, Amber from Fancy Tiger Crafts shows you how to use free-form patchwork to grow the quilt from the center out. In the class, Amber shows how to make a 54" quilt top, but instructions are included for making a larger 90" queen-size quilt top.
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This Crafting Together event was recorded live on March 15, 2023. Watch master quiltmaker, Sarah Bond discuss her family quilting lineage and its influence on her work. Sarah gives a talk and slide presentation as well as fields questions and discusses collaborating with her relatives in her art practice. Sarah's cousin, e bond, also make a guest appearance at the end to talk thru how they recently taught together at QuiltCon 2023 and how Sarah works...
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Create precise shapes when you learn the English Paper Piecing quilting technique, where fabric is wrapped around paper pieces. The design possibilities are endless because the shapes align beautifully. Liza shows you how to piece a hexagon shape, but the same principles apply when you work with diamonds and other shapes. She'll show you how to choose your materials and tools, create the hexagons, and then appliquГ© them onto tea towels.
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In this class, Kaffe and Liza work together to create a masterful medallion quilt in rich, warm tones. The quilt begins with a stunning medallion center that is comprised of English paper-pieced hexagon rings and hand-appliqued fussy-cut fabrics. From there, the quilt expands with several colorful borders--some patchworked, some solid--which come together to create a lush, harmonious effect. Throughout the making of this low-contrast quilt, Kaffe...
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In this short video, Liza Lucy shows you her favorite way to cut stacks of fabric precisely and efficiently to make the most common patchwork shapes. You will learn how to cut a perfect square, how to use a 60-degree ruler to create diamonds, and how to cut squares down into half-square triangles and quarter-square triangles. Along the way, she shares excellent tips for using a rotary cutter, gridded ruler, and cutting mat.
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Create colorful quilted bibs for the little ones in yourlife in no time at all using Jellyroll precuts. Taught by Ashley Nickels, this fun, freestyleproject features log cabin patchwork and offers a great opportunity to work with precut fabric. Ashley walks you through every step, from piecing the front to assembling the bib and adding decorative quilting touches on the machine.
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This modern quilt design uses 12 large-scale blocks that are strip-pieced, which can be assembled in different orientations to achieve a different finished design. Heather shows you how to cut and strip piece fabric and then cut them into blocks. She also talks about how to work with bias cut edges to minimize stretch. As well as nifty technique for sewing consistent (QH(B" seams. Heather teaches how to assemble the quilt top, which is an accessible...