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Guild Member's Tips, Tricks & Techniques

Our guild members have a wealth of knowledge when it comes to quilting hacks, tips, tricks and techniques. Here are a few that have been shared. Hopefully you can learn from some of these ideas. If you have any to share please email us so we can list them here for other quilters to use.

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Maurine Henry

Maurine Henry

Maurine Henry

Maurine demonstrated on how to make a

"Easy Square in a Square Table Runner". See the PDF directions below.

Bonny Peters

Maurine Henry

Maurine Henry

Bonny demonstrated on how to make a "Making a Nine Patch Block without cutting individual squares" See the PDF directions below

Sara Fredette

Maurine Henry

Stephanie Labanowski

Sara demonstrated on how to make Hexagons for English Paper Piecing projects. See the PDF directions below



Stephanie Labanowski

Stephanie Labanowski

Stephanie Labanowski

Stephanie demonstrated on how to "Work smarter not harder" using her tips and tricks and some of her favorite quilting gadgets. See the PDF below for a list and where to purchase items.

Bev Hill

Stephanie Labanowski

Bev Hill

 Bev demonstrated the Martelli 2.5" strip ruler as one of her favorite quilting tools to make bindings. See the PDF below for the "Broken Courthouse Steps" pattern she handed out at the meeting using the 2.5" ruler and Stephanie's Labanowski's Tools PDF for the Martelli information.

Downloads

Maurine Henry's Easy Square in a Square Directions for a Table Runner (pdf)Download
Bonny Peters's-Easy Nine Patch Directions (pdf)Download
Stephanie Labanowski's Tools (pdf)Download
Sara Fredette's-Hexagon English Paper Piecing Directions (pdf)Download
Bev Hill's Broken Courthouse Steps Pattern (pdf)Download

Lisa Huckins

Norma Jean Holmes

Norma Jean Holmes

Lisa  presented  

"Scrap quilting using adding machine paper rolls". See the PDF directions below or go to this website link to get the full directions.                      Source:  https://sewcanshe.com/receipt-roll-scrap-quilt-using-adding-machine-paper/ 

By Caroline Fairbanks-Critchfield;       Updated on May 15, 2024

Norma Jean Holmes

Norma Jean Holmes

Norma Jean Holmes

Norma Jean presented a multitude of items during her presentation. She had many inexpensive hacks from places like Harbor Freight and Dollar Tree. See the PDF below for the full list of items that she presented.

Peggy Fischer

Peggy Fischer

Peggy Fischer

Peggy showed us her favorite quilting tools for making life easier. 


Tim Holtz Small Scissors - 5 Inch Mini Snips with Micro Serrated Blade 

https://a.co/d/00t62HJx

*BladeSaver Thread Cutter
https://a.co/d/0iScLBOi   

                     

    *This one allows you to get more use out of a less than perfect rotary cutter blade.

Rdutuok 17x13.

Peggy showed us her favorite quilting tools for making life easier. 


Tim Holtz Small Scissors - 5 Inch Mini Snips with Micro Serrated Blade 

https://a.co/d/00t62HJx

*BladeSaver Thread Cutter
https://a.co/d/0iScLBOi   

                     

    *This one allows you to get more use out of a less than perfect rotary cutter blade.

Rdutuok 17x13.5 Inches Wool Pressing Mat  
https://a.co/d/04Nty3N5 


 *She recommends you make a custom fabric cover (or two) for the wool mat that you can then wash to remove all the starch you may use on your projects.

Peg Smeltz

Peggy Fischer

Peggy Fischer

Peg demonstrated a nifty way to make perfectly pieced squares using Pellon gridded fusible interfacing. HTC now makes a Quilter's grid (multiple sizes) that is probably easier for us to obtain since the 2" Pellon product is not carried in many stores.

2" Grid HTC

https://www.amazon.com/Quilt-Fuse-Fusible-Nonwoven-Layout/dp/B001BLPBCY


1" Grid

Peg demonstrated a nifty way to make perfectly pieced squares using Pellon gridded fusible interfacing. HTC now makes a Quilter's grid (multiple sizes) that is probably easier for us to obtain since the 2" Pellon product is not carried in many stores.

2" Grid HTC

https://www.amazon.com/Quilt-Fuse-Fusible-Nonwoven-Layout/dp/B001BLPBCY


1" Grid Pellon

https://www.amazon.com/Pellon-Quilters-Gridded-Fusible-Interfacing/dp/B00ILYSO82/ref=sr_1_4?crid=16110FP25D870&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.kxn61qCax4sFeSYIIGA8k0CDhWfGQC8DAGNsE0xuT4ww4WnOFmyCnOy-m0n_mxUhso6g738XXe3oBRrNQtgHndNq2NELLW-1Skxp6L0ltCF-Rp8Xz-Qjf5_JRJOhT43x5UxctSnVK_IBE4Uzwm6hpjfYWQT_cA_doPyQO4M6tU4xwWkBHVozsg8fpXgfuG_2haMkcCwVoIIYcqdAu3sdVWHVp4-cKdHdYHa5PiBMnfnEb_3f4aZUr0ATyB9LeiAoJxDGTXLCQNOspq0bfXEGhmEBDt7egyXmAEbkVciIj_E.8uEN0Wg8yGOHT_2O_jJF9uahUWvlcvxEQBHp_rcKMWo&dib_tag=se&keywords=HTC+Quilt+Fuse+Fusible+Nonwoven+Layout+Grid&qid=1721136687&s=home-garden&sprefix=htc+quilt+fuse+fusible+nonwoven+layout+grid%2Cgarden%2C96&sr=1-4-catcorr


She also demonstrated us a neat way of finishing bindings that eliminates the bulk. A YouTube video on binding and this technique is listed below:

Downloads

Piecing with Gridded Fusible Interfacing & Closing a Binding (pdf)Download
Scrap quilting using adding machine roll paper (pdf)Download
Norma Jean Holmes Cheap Hacks 2024 (pdf)Download

Binding Video

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