TASTER: Crazy Patchwork part 2 with Valerie Nesbitt

Description

In this video Valerie shows you how you can use up (large) scraps of wadding and give yourself a perfect size project to practice your machine quilting skills on.

Quilting-as-you-Go

With this method of contructing your quilt you do need to pre-think a lot more – i.e. which blocks are going where and have wadding, backing and sashing strips ready – but as thin sections this quilt is easy to handle.

Quilting Options

You can practice your free motion quilting or you could simply quilt straight lines across the block and/or simple wavy lines using the walking foot and a straight stitch.

Stitch and Thread Options

You could think about embellishing with some decorative stitches too and using some really pretty statement threads.

Helen Deighan has a neat trick for creating straight sashing with the help of an iron

click here

and the binding had straight corners (not mitred) and you can see how by clicking here:

Did you miss how to make the crazy blocks in Part 1?  – click here

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