Use up your stash
No need to worry too much about the fabrics for this patter. If your 9 fat 1/4’s look lovely together they will be great in the quilt. And it doesn’t matter if these are Fat 1/4’s from metres (as in Europe) or Fat 1/4s from yards (as in the USA) – you can still manage.
Rotary Cutting Practice
Great for beginners since the sewing is easy. Valerie also guides you through layer cutting with the rotary cutter, it was designed to do so that you have lots of accurately cut pieces quickly.
Border Options
The pattern comes in two different size blocks, but the overall design remains the same. Valerie also gives you some alternative ideas for borders: Piano Keys and/or the use of the flat piping.
Mixing it up
If you would like to know more about the Layer Cake shuffle – click here. It’s a very simple but effective way of changing the location of the various fabrics without tying yourself up in alternatives!
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You will be inspired by this lovely workshop with Lorna. It’s also a great way to use up scraps/strips of fabric that you thought maybe too small to sew in the more traditional way.
Lorna guides you through colour selection. She does say though that anything goes, so there is no need to be too pi...
Layer Cake possibility
Sewing large squares together to create half-square triangle units is so quick and easy and you get to make your quilt in no time at all, just remember you need contrast in the squares.
Log Cabin Settings
Valerie encourages you to think about the various settings that can b...
This is the modern way of tackling applique where there are no turned edges – you just trace, cut out and fuse with the iron, but then you do need to do some stitching and this is another in the series from Valerie covering the options open to you.
The simple straight stitching can be done on sma...
