If you want a quality patchwork quilt, you need to remember that not all fabrics are suitable for quilting. Some fabrics cannot be used for quilting while others can give you best results. Choosing a wrong type of fabric would only waste your time and effort in quilting.
Quilting is a fun and exciting activity for beginners. However, you may not enjoy the fun if you wrongfully selected a fabric. The results may be poor if you start with a wrong fabric or it may need repairing after you sew the fabric. These are only possible results of a wrong selection of fabrics in quilting. So be careful with this.
Let’s take a look on some helpful tips for making a quality patchwork quilt.
- Flexibility and Accuracy
Accuracy is a very important skill in the art of patchwork and quilting. If you want to come up with a masterpiece, you need to use some of the best Quilting tools like rotary cutter.
In the market today, you can purchase many sewing machines that will enable you to make accurate quilt blocks and Patchworks. These machines double the capacity of old machines, allowing you to create a dozen of quilt blocks in an hour. Almost all the machine manufacturers provide books with free quilt patterns to their customers.
If you are starting your quilting career, you can search in the Internet some basic and popular quilt patterns. Also, you can visit here for more free libraries, video tutorials and instructions on quilting.
2. Purpose and Materials
Remember that the first thing you need to know when a starting quilt block is to determine its purpose. Because this will help you choose the right fabric materials such as cotton and design as well. Color, which is another great factor in design, can only be determined by knowing the purpose of the quilt.
3. Prints and Design
With prints and design, you need to vary the prints so as to look your quilt block in a modern way. If you want an old “country style” look, you can mix and match colors to do the trick. You can choose from small to medium and to large prints to help you express the emotion you want your quilt to give.
There are a lot more tips that you need to know when you’re starting out a quilt block. Choices should be made before quilting and best results will follow.
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