TASTER: Flower Basket Quilt with Valere Nesbitt
FREE Tasters (Quilting) • Educational, G, 01-Jun-2017
Valerie guides you through how to make the basket block and talks you through the segments that are needed – triangles, rectangles and squares, and then the sewing sequence.
The block really comes into it’s own, because it is set on point, and if you want, you can make just one block and turn it into a cushion or bag by just adding large setting triangles.
Talking about setting triangles, when you make a quilt where the blocks are set on point, then you do need to think about the outside setting triangles – both along the sides and also the corners, these are created differently, so that the grain is in the right place, and again Valerie explains why.
The quilt being used in the demo has been created with a range of fabrics from Lewis & Irene and not all from the same range, just to show how well fabrics can blend together.
Valerie also discussed the pro’s and con’s of using direction fabrics. You can make a decision about whether you like the effect or not.
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