Piecing Tips & Tricks Tool: Piece Like the Experts, Easy-to-Use Color-Coded Sections, Everything You Need to Know!

By Alex Anderson, Carol Doak, Nancy Johnson-Srebro and Ruth B. McDowell

Alex Anderson, Sharyn Craig, Carol Doak, Nancy Johnson-Srebro and Ruth B. McDowell. Tips for getting started including selecting tools and notions, choosing fabrics, and creating a workspace and design wall. Tricks for accurate cutting, pinning, piecing, and pressing. Ideas for settings, borders, and sashing to make your quilts one-of-a-kind. Paper-piecing basics from Carol Doak. Easy how-tos for curved piecing and set-in Y seams. A show-it-all piecing reference from 5 respected quilt authors and teachers. Each expert covers topics in her area of expertise. Illustrations and photos make each step crystal-clear. Color-coding and clever organization puts all the information right at your fingertips.

• Language: English
• Publisher: C&T Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Jan 6, 2010
• ISBN: 9781607052418

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Piecing tips & tricks tool : piece like the experts : easy-to-use color-coded sections, everything you need to know / Alex Anderson ... [et al.].

    p. cm.

ISBN-13: 978-1-57120-983-2 (paper trade : alk. paper)

ISBN-10: 1-57120-983-2 (paper trade : alk. paper)

1. Quilting. 2. Patchwork. I. Anderson, Alex, II. Title.

TT835.P552 2006

746.46--dc22

                               2006007141

10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

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For further reading and more detailed information on many of the topics included in this book, please refer to these books:

Author websites:

www.nancyjohnsonsrebro.com

www.ruthbmcdowell.com

www.alexandersonquilts.com

www.sharyncraig.com

www.caroldoak.com

Contents

Nancy Johnson-Srebro

WORKSPACE

Lighting

Sewing Area Set-Up

Chair

Design Wall

Ironing Board and Iron

ROTARY CUTTING

Equipment

Rotary Cutters

Rotary Cutting Mats

Rotary Cutting Rulers

Cutting

Cutting Border Strips

MACHINE PIECING

Equipment

Sewing Machine

Notions

Piecing

Adding Lattice or Borders

Set-in (Y) Seams

Chain Piecing

Pinning

Pressing

Ruth McDowell

PIECING CURVED SEAMS

Alex Anderson

FABRIC

What Fabric and How Much to Buy

Three Rules for Choosing Fabrics for a Quilt

Value

Character of Print

Color Families

Fabric Groups

Designing

BORDERS

Choosing Borders

Cutting Border Strips

Stitching Borders

BINDING

Sharyn Craig

SETTINGS

CHOOSING A SETTING DESIGN

Tangent Blocks

Setting Triangles

Setting With Sashing

Diagonal Setting With Sashing

Setting Primary Blocks With Alternate Blocks

FRAMED BLOCKS

PROBLEM SOLVING

Size Differential

Color Correction

Carol Doak

PAPER PIECING

Enlarging and Reducing Foundation Patterns

Measuring and Cutting the Fabric Pieces

Speed Cutting

Straight Fabric Grain/Print Placement

Straight Grain/Print Placement for Vertical and Horizontal Seams

Bias Grain/Diagonal Placement on 45° Seamlines

Straight Grain/Print Placement for Odd Angles

Piecing

Joining Foundations

Joining Set-in Seams