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Quilters share their tips… and some lessons

27 Thursday May 2010

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Sewing tips

Two days ago I shared some sewing tips with you for the Sew Mama Sew Tip-Fest. There have been some great tips added by many experienced sewers and you can find them here and here. I’m tickled pink because they chose to feature my blog in their post along with several others! So if you’re looking for some smart ways to do things take a look at what’s on offer.

Sewing lessons on the Janome 3160QDC

Today I had my first lesson on my new Janome. Rose from Sewrite Seven Hills was so friendly and helpful. I got to see the new quilting stitches which are very cute and mimic free motion quilting for small areas. And I learnt all the little tricks you need to know to make full use of the machine. I’m off to take up my trousers and use the blind hem foot. Wish me luck!

If you’re looking for the Jinny Beyer Give Away? It’s here… You’ve got till Friday Australian time to enter.

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Four sewing tips for Sew Mama Sew “Tip-fest”

25 Tuesday May 2010

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Sew Mama Sew has called for favourite sewing tips. Here are four of mine:

1. Don’t sew to a deadline – you’ll make more mistakes and it takes all the fun out of it.

2. Don’t believe there is only one right way to do something. Check out all the possibilities and exercise your own creativity as well.

BInding rolled and pinned

BInding rolled and pinned

3. When sewing on the binding, roll the binding into a ball and stick a pin through it so you don’t get all tied up.

4. This one is my take on a neat idea Janet showed on her blog Quiltsalott. (Scroll down until you can see the thread and needle keeper.) My idea is to take a piece of ribbon, roll it around a thread spool, thread your needles and then stick them in the ribbon. (I’m too lazy to make a thread keeper for all the different threads I’m using in a quilt but this idea has the same effect and is cheaper and less time consuming).p1010422

I hope you find them useful. I’d love to hear any you might have if you’d like to comment.
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