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Pieced Candy Corn Place Mats to Sew
Pieced Candy Corn Place Mats Create a whimsical Pieced Candy Corn Place Mat set for your Halloween table. These strip-pieced candy corn come together quickly and easily using jelly roll strips. But, you can also cut 1½”-wide fabric strips using your favorite white, orange and yellow blender fabrics. Add simple quilting using stunning Holoshimmer Metallic Thread to add fun glitz. PIECED CANDY CORN PLACE MAT SUPPLIES Supplies listed are enough to create one 12½” x 19″ place mat. Note: This supply list contains affiliate links. Sulky may receive a commission if you choose to purchase something through these links. (3) 2 1/2″-wide x WOF fabric strips (white, orange, yellow solids…
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Half Square Triangle Table Runner
The Half Square Triangle The half square triangle (HST) is a versatile piecing method that forms to create so many quilt blocks. We’ll explore several easy blocks using the half square triangle to close out National Quilting Month. Choose your favorite and make a table runner with pretty quilting. HALF SQUARE TRIANGLE FAQS What is a half-square triangle? It’s a square quilt block made of two triangles, pieced along the long triangle edge. This edge is cut on the bias, making it a bit stretchy and unwieldy to sew. It’s easiest to sew two at a time from two fabric squares, and then cut after sewing is complete. How many…
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Maker’s Mat that Protects & Serves
Make a Maker’s Mat Place this Maker’s Mat under your sewing machine to store sewing supplies and protect your work surface. The Maker’s Mat prevents your machine from slipping on the table during sewing, and the padded double-layer pockets hold all sorts of notions, tools and spools. This is the perfect project to kick off National Sewing Month! MAKER’S MAT SUPPLIES Sulky Thread 50 wt. Cotton+Steel Thread by Sulky 30 wt. Cotton Blendables® Thread (featured: Iris) Fabric (2) 22″ squares of coordinating quilting cotton fabrics (front & back) (1) 12″ x 22″ rectangle each of coordinating quilting cotton fabric (back pocket) (1) 9½” x 22″ rectangle each of coordinating quilting…
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Laser Cut Appliqué Wall Art Kits for Summer Décor
Laser cut appliqués are the coolest thing in appliqué! These precut pieces allow you to put together seemingly intricate appliquéd projects in a mere fraction of the time, cutting (pun intended) out the tedious cutting, trimming and recutting needed in most cases for a layered appliqué project, such as our Summer Simply Appliqué scene. HOW LASER CUT APPLIQUE WORKS This pattern comes with a layout sheet to aid in layering the laser cut appliqué pieces properly to achieve a beautiful end result. Use a nonstick pressing sheet to place each piece and fuse the layers in order. A lightweight table-top lightbox is also SUPER helpful for this process. Tweezers also…
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Easy Christmas Tree Skirt & Invisible Thread Tutorial
Christmas Tree Skirt by Ellen March This Christmas tree skirt tutorial is super easy and helps use up all the holiday fabric remnants in your stash. You’ll learn how to make the Christmas tree skirt, plus learn how to work with invisible thread for a flawless finish. This Christmas tree skirt is reversible, too, giving you more bang for your buck! And you can adapt the tree skirt to make a holiday tablecloth. The featured tree skirt was sewn on a Husqvarna Viking Designer Epic sewing & embroidery machine. Christmas Tree Skirt Supply List Approx 1-1/2 yard of backing fabric (amount depends on size) Low-loft batting Approx. 1/2 yard each…
