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Secrets to Beautiful Fat Quarter Quilts
Psssst - This isn't Just About Fat Quarter Quilts
From Cutting to Machine Quilting and Binding . . .
Transform Your Fabric into a Beautiful Quilt – with ease!
From: Penny Halgren
Date:
Dear Quilting Friend,
Are you confused about how to use fat quarters in a quilt?
Do you want to know how to make sure that you have enough fat quarters to make the quilt you have designed?
Would you like to know how to choose a quilt design that will highlight the beauty of your fat quarters and not look like a scrappy quilt?
Are you still looking for tips and techniques to make machine quilting on your home sewing machine fun and easy?
Do you still struggle with choosing the right color fabrics and designing your quilt so it sparkles?
Do you have similar questions about making a quilt using yards of fabric, not just fat quarters?
If you answered "Yes!" to any or all of these questions, you'll want to listen up!
Designing a Quilt Can be Fun. Or it Can be Frustrating.
For many years after I first started making quilts, I would look for a quilt patterns that I liked 100% - including the colors of fabric. That way, I could take the picture of the quilt to the fabric shop and match the colors of my fabric to the colors in the picture.
I struggled with creating my own color schemes for my quilts. I didn't know which colors "went together" and what would happen if I decided to change the colors in a quilt. All I could do was follow a colored picture of a quilt.
Sound familiar?
As a result, the quilts I could make were pretty limited. I was always looking at quilt patterns in colors that I liked, and then spending hours at the fabric shop trying to match the colors in the picture. Sometimes I couldn't match the colors in the pattern, so I gave up making the quilt.
After several years of frustration, I signed up for a workshop to learn about colors in quilts.
Right from the start, I knew this workshop would be different. The supply list for the first class didn't include fabric. And there was no display quilt. Just a simple description about learning about color and value in fabric.
That workshop changed my quilting life, and opened my eyes to looking at the design process from a completely different angle.
After that workshop, I could look at quilt blocks, play with a wide variety of color options, and design a quilt of my own - not duplicate someone else's quilt.
I still remember many years hearing about designing quilts and thinking I would never be able to design my own quilt - I would always just copy someone else's design.
Machine Quilting on a Home Sewing Machine is Exactly the Same!
If you are anything like I am, your first attempts at machine quilting on your home sewing machine were just a little challenging, frustrating and maybe you were even ready to quit - and either send all of your quilts to someone else to quilt, resolve to hand quilt all of your quilts, or - worse yet - just sew the tops and never finish the entire quilt.
It took years for me to progress from "straight" machine quilting stitches to free motion quilting.
(Straight machine quilting stitching was a joke for how my machine quilting looked. It was supposed to be straight, but it never was straight enough to qualify as straight, and not wavy enough to be called meandering.)
Then I interviewed expert machine quilter, Pam Bauer, who provided us with several tips for beautiful machine quilting.
Using her tips and techniques, my machine quilting became much improved. And when I finally incorporated one key technique that I had avoided for many years, the beauty and ease of my machine quilting took about 10 steps forward.
And the good news is that it didn't take thousands of hours of practice or dozens of machine quilted quilts in order to see huge improvement in my stitches.
The big improvement came as I started using just a few simple key techniques.
This Success can be Yours, too!
It all started with creating a fat quarter quilt. As I worked through designing and sewing a quilt using fat quarters, I realized that there were some key processes I could share with you that would make your quilting easier and more fun.
After all, who wants to spend their entire quilting journey just copying someone else's quilts, when it is really easy to design your own?
A year or so ago, I hosted a webinar where quilters saw my techniques for designing a quilt using fat quarters. Hundreds of quilters attended and got to see my inside secrets for designing a quilt and drafting the pattern and templates for cutting your fabric and sewing the quilt.
It turns out that was just the tip of the iceberg for this fat quarter quilt.
And now I would like to share more with you!
The lines are reserved, and we're all set to expand our horizons.
This FREE webinarl will take place on Thursday, February 16 beginning at:
5pm Pacific Time
6pm Mountain Time
7pm Central Time
8pm Eastern Time
This is NOT Just About Fat Quarter Quilts!
While this began as a fat quarter quilt project, it bacame a project for a quilt using any type of fabric - while still giving you the information you need to create a beautiful quilt using fat quarters.
By joining me in this webinar, your quilting journey can be transformed instantly so that every one of your quilt projects is easy and fun.
From choosing the pattern to finishing the binding on your quilt, you will complete every step along the path with confidence. Plus your family and friends will look at your quilts and think you have been creating heirlooms for years.
During our time together, you will learn:
- how to choose a fat quarter bundle, or put fat quarters together for your quilt
- how to choose a block to get the most of your fat quarters
- how to make the most of your fat quarters when you cut them into patches, and how to cut your patches when you don't have selvedges on your fabric
- how to know many fat quarters you need to make the quilt you want to make
- and much more
As always, it is free to listen in, but you will need to register to get the login information and the Handout.
To register visit: Secrets to Beautiful Fat Quarter Quilts Webinar
Happy Quilting!
Penny Halgren
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