Monday, January 18, 2010

Tips

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Here's a few things I thought about yesterday that I wanted to share:

  • sometimes its easier to sew pieces together if you place the lighter fabric on top
  • if you're choosing to speed piece, meaning in strips, make sure you save enough fabric for the short and long pieces. Does that make sense? I've already run out of 2 colors because I didn't anticipate correctly. If you are following the original pattern link, you probably won't have an issue.
  • When you press, sometimes its easier if you finger press the seams towards the darker fabric, and then follow with the iron
  • sometimes its easier if you press from the front, and push the fabric away from the seam
  • if you're using white fabric, for a nicer final product, press towards the darker fabric

2 comments:

  1. Are you saying that we should cut the fabric all at once for the 5" and 9" pieces?

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  2. Only if you want to. Its your choice. What I am saying that if you do it that way, then be careful to make sure you have the right amount of pieces. Does that make sense?

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