Instructions for the Las Vegas Block
We are making these blocks with white and bright “happy” colors. Please bring completed blocks to the December meeting. For more information, contact Dawn Schaben (number and addresses in our Member Directory).
Comfort Quilts for Vegas
Here is the pattern for the block that I will be asking individuals to make tonight at the guild meeting. I will be asking them to make a block so we can make quilts like we did for the Orlando shootings. We will all make Block A. The blocks should be made with a bright happy color and white.
Quilts for Vegas Handout
Thanks,
Dawn
Star Quilters Guild Newsletter, November 2017
October 2017 Show and Tell
Searching for particular fabrics online
Kristen Farwig sends 3 recommendations she found on the great but now defunct site QuiltUniversity.com:
MISSING FABRICS http://www.missingfabrics.com/
Joyce Noell recommends searching for fabrics here —
Kim Clark says, “I have found some older material by typing in the name of the design found on the selvage edge if still on the fabric, and the name of the designer in the search box of the internet.”
Kathy Martin recommends Fabric.com
“They have just about everything and the site is easy to use.”
The quilter who asked this question mentioned polka-dot fabric. I put this in a google search engine —
quilt fabric white dots on navy
— and got images of fabric on sale for $2.25 up.
Easy Braid Quilt Border
TOOL:
Small Half Hexagon Template for 5” Charm Packs and 2 ½” Jelly Rolls
By Natalie Dawn for Missouri Quilt Company (SKU NOT132) – $5.95 online
INSTRUCTION VIDEO: Missouri Quilt Co.
INSTRUCTION STEPS:
- If not using charm packs or jelly rolls, cut 2 ½” strips of fabric.
- Cut out a stack of trapezoids using the template.
- Arrange and sew together to form braid. I construct two rows at once allowing chain stitching.
Continue adding pieces to desired length allowing enough length to square off top and bottom leaving ¼” seam allowance on each end.
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