What's your best advice for a new Quilter?
#33
Super Member
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Round Rock,Texas
Posts: 6,135
Quilter's Complete Guide by Fons & Porter is the quilter's bible IMHO. I used to teach quilt classes and recommended that all my beginner quilters get themselves a copy.
Relax and have fun! Remember that it takes time to learn the new skills you need to become a quilter, lots of lingo to learn too. Don't be so hard on yourself. This is supposed to be fun.
Always,always remember to close your rotary cutter when you're done with a cut, its very sharp.
Relax and have fun! Remember that it takes time to learn the new skills you need to become a quilter, lots of lingo to learn too. Don't be so hard on yourself. This is supposed to be fun.
Always,always remember to close your rotary cutter when you're done with a cut, its very sharp.
#35
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Join Date: Mar 2009
Posts: 15,639
Originally Posted by quilt addict
I would learn there are no rules. It is your creation and can be anything you want.
#38
Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Missouri
Posts: 959
Buy good quality fabric, and use good quilters rulers to cut accurately, check your machine so you know you have 1/4
inch accurate seams. Press not iron your quilt pieces/blocks.
And square all your pieces as you piece a block.
Read and research the quilting process so you know the
correct way to construct a great finished quilt.
Every quilt you make you will learn something new.
Quilting is not something you can learn overnight.
Enjoy! :thumbup:
inch accurate seams. Press not iron your quilt pieces/blocks.
And square all your pieces as you piece a block.
Read and research the quilting process so you know the
correct way to construct a great finished quilt.
Every quilt you make you will learn something new.
Quilting is not something you can learn overnight.
Enjoy! :thumbup:
#39
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: MN
Posts: 24,659
There are levels of "beginner" -
If someone has never been exposed to textiles or sewing in any form, basic "vocabulary" would be helpful -
Names of different types of fabrics, weaves, knits, different types of pins, needles, what are selvages and grain lines, what are seam allowances, the difference between pressing and ironing, etc.
If someone has never been exposed to textiles or sewing in any form, basic "vocabulary" would be helpful -
Names of different types of fabrics, weaves, knits, different types of pins, needles, what are selvages and grain lines, what are seam allowances, the difference between pressing and ironing, etc.
#40
Don't kick yourself when you make a mistake (we all have been there, and some of us are still there) ;) PLUS if you can't see it on a gallop horse then there is not mistake. ;)
We all would like to have our quilts done yesterday, but with patience it will get done.
We all would like to have our quilts done yesterday, but with patience it will get done.
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