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#233
Originally Posted by borntoquilt
Now that I bought the SCRIBBLE PAD @ the $ store today - what do I DO with it???
Unthread your machine needle and sew on every line of your pattern(s). Don't forget to add a seam allowance if the pattern doesn't have one. When yo uhave sewn on all the lines, remove the staples and number the copies exactly as the master pattern was numbered. You now have "x" number of foundations on which you can start piecing.
You can run it through your printer, if you want to, but I do it this way. I'm cheap and printer ink isn't. :)
#238
I do not have a bigger picture of my avatar but it is an applique mixture of birds and flowers. Most of the flowers are designed by our Diane Johnson, she is a great designer. the others are either from Patchwork and Quilting magazine or pieces that I put together from different thinks like advertisements etc. My mum had the original quilts. This one took me 3 years to do with breaks in between workigf on it.
#239
Originally Posted by borntoquilt
Thanks! That sounds easy enough. Any tips for EASY pp? I have only done it once before and I am self taught! MUST be an easier way. Where can I buy that beautiful pattern?
The ladies in my quilt club USED to think that Mariner's Compasses were really difficult to do until I had a workshop on Paper Piecing. I used the Mariner's Compass & they quickly learned how really easy it is.
I am usually a very disorganized person UNITL I start a PP project. I will measure each piece and add quite a bit on each side - around 1" both ways. I'll cut each section's pieces out and label them as to their number on the pattern. I stack the pieces with #1 on top and so on. Place the stack next to the machine & start building the block. I set up an ironing station to the right of the machine so I'm not bouncing up & down to press every piece. I do, however, have my trimming station in another room so I do have to get up and move. (I am sewing in the dining room and I trim on the island in the kitchen). I moved out of sewing room to be able to watch TV (especially those NCIS marathons) & set up shop between the dining room & living room. Left fabric etc. in the sewing room. Just moved machine & table out there. I have a 3-drawer plastic chest on wheels that I put a home-made ironing board on. I move that to the right of the table and sew & press away.
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