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,...
by Jen | Technique Tuesday
Hey Everyone, welcome back to Technique Tuesday. Last week when Michael was proof reading my blog post for the Granny’s Choice block he wasn’t quite sure what it meant to cut on the diagonal twice. After explaining to him what it meant I thought I wonder...
by Jen | Technique Tuesday
Hey Everyone, welcome back to Technique Tuesday. There are times when the ruler just isn’t wide or long enough. It doesn’t matter whether it is the 8 ½″ or 6 ½″ x 24″ that you have there are always times when the ruler just isn’t the right size. What...
by Jen | Technique Tuesday
Hey Everyone, welcome back to Technique Tuesday. Last week I talked about making and squaring up strip sets. This week my topic is about squaring up blocks. Many times as we build our blocks they may be out just a bit or right on the correct size. It is not uncommon...
by Jen | Technique Tuesday
Hey Everyone, welcome back to Technique Tuesday. A few weeks ago I talked about squaring off fabric to cut strips well this week I am going to talk about squaring off strip sets. What is a strip set? A strip set is set of strips sewn together which can be made up of 2...
by Jen | Technique Tuesday
Hey Everyone, welcome back to Technique Tuesday. This weeks topic is about a technique that will help speed things up when there are many pieces to be sewn. It is called chain sewing. What is chain sewing? Chain sewing is a very efficient method of sewing units...
