Bonnie Hunter
#21
I missed signing up for her workshop that happens next week in Michigan. Hopefully I can make one of her workshops in lower Michigan when she is there - I believe in 2016. In the meantime, I am doing l/e with 2 1/2 or 5 inch squares. Love all the thread I am saving by doing l/e! Just this August I pieced three quilt tops by using the l/e process while piecing other quilts. Wish I had known of this process years ago!
#22
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Join Date: May 2012
Location: Central Wisconsin
Posts: 4,391
Maybe you've figured it out by now by reading the other posts. They are just scraps of fabric that you sew onto after you have finished a seam. That's the ender. Then it becomes a leader when you sew onto the next piece. We use them to keep the thread from bunching up at the start of a seam, to keep the needle from unthreading itself, and to mark our progress (putting one on after each 10 pieces). Some people call them spiders (because they often have lots of threads hanging from them), and some call them startie-stoppies. Whatever you call them, they are great.
#23
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Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Seattle
Posts: 695
I don''t need to use a leader for my machine, but I love love, love Leaders and Enders! I am currently working on three projects and one of them is a L & E quilt from Bonnie's book Leaders & Enders. I am making a quilt for DH for Christmas, which needs to be done only at night after he's gone to bed. I'm making a fall wall hanging during the day because, well, I can't not quilt all day, and am sewing the L's & E's for a quilt for the living room to go with our newly reupholstered sofa and love seat.
At times I have to fix a seam in the middle and don't use an L or E and I feel guilty, like I'm wasting my time! I am really hooked on them. Am anxiously waiting for the next batch!
Participating in the swaps on the board is a super way to get the variety of fabrics I need for my scrappies. I am currently into my second one and am looking forward to more. Thanks again, Sewbizgirl, for doing them!
At times I have to fix a seam in the middle and don't use an L or E and I feel guilty, like I'm wasting my time! I am really hooked on them. Am anxiously waiting for the next batch!
Participating in the swaps on the board is a super way to get the variety of fabrics I need for my scrappies. I am currently into my second one and am looking forward to more. Thanks again, Sewbizgirl, for doing them!
#24
I don't have more than one project going at one time BUT I'm working on a Bonnie inspired quilt using 2-1/2 squares that I chain piece through, then turn them into 4 patches. I do like Bonnie does, pin them together in bunches of 10 so it's easy to count how many patches I have/need. I always have something under the presser foot waiting for another block to be sewn.
#28
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Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Michigan
Posts: 864
#30
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Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: Illinois
Posts: 9,018
Maybe you've figured it out by now by reading the other posts. They are just scraps of fabric that you sew onto after you have finished a seam. That's the ender. Then it becomes a leader when you sew onto the next piece. We use them to keep the thread from bunching up at the start of a seam, to keep the needle from unthreading itself, and to mark our progress (putting one on after each 10 pieces). Some people call them spiders (because they often have lots of threads hanging from them), and some call them startie-stoppies. Whatever you call them, they are great.
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