by Jen | Technique Tuesday
Hey Everyone, welcome back to Technique Tuesday. This past weekend I taught my Bargello Flower class and one of my samples, The Sunflower Quilt, has a checkerboard border on it. It is a bit different than the standard checkerboard as I added in some negative space...
by Jen | Technique Tuesday
Hey Everyone, welcome back to Technique Tuesday. This week I am going to talk about how to make a basic Bargello. What is Bargello? The definition according to most dictionaries is: ”a needlepoint stitch that produces zigzag lines”. Quilting has adopted this age old...
by Jen | Technique Tuesday
Hey Everyone, welcome back to Technique Tuesday. It is good practice to label each and every quilt that you make. I have to say that when I first started making quilts I did not put any labels on but now that my quilts are on display in shops and such I put a label on...
by Jen | Technique Tuesday
Hey Everyone, welcome back to Technique Tuesday. This weeks post is going to be a little different in that there is no technique involved but rather important information regarding weight of thread. I have found that this is a topic that many quilters are just not so...
by Jen | Cool Tool Thursday, Technique Tuesday
Hey Everyone, welcome back to Technique Tuesday. As promised last week in Cool Tool Thursday I said I would do a post on how to make your own fusible tape with the Clover Fusible Bias Tape Maker. Some of the Quilts by Jen readers like video tutorials, some like the...
by Jen | Technique Tuesday
Hey Everyone, welcome back to Technique Tuesday. Last week when my husband, Michael, was proofing the post about how to cut on the diagonal once or twice he wasn’t sure what “on the bias” meant. Then, in my Purely Canadian BOM class last week,...
