Expert Ease - Sew with Success!

Cut with confidence and seam with success! This is a class to sort out all those knotty dilemmas such as how to sew Tumbling Blocks, piece Flying Geese, cope with Blazing Star and other kinds of similar patterns, get the points to match and the blocks to lie flat. Understand which way to press seams for best effects. Learn to cut along correct grain and how incorrect cutting results in wavy edges and lumpy seams. Explore quick tips for binding plus uncover many more tricks of the trade. Create a series of samples to remind you of why, when, where and what to do to. Build confidence so that you to can sew with expert ease!

Look at different patchworks from blocks to strip designs such as Bargello. Create a series of samples to remind you of why, when, where and what to do to. Use these ideas to build confidence so that you too can sew with expert ease!

Requirements

2/3 Fat Quarters or reasonable sized oddments in different colours

Four 2½ x full width of fabric (42”) strips in four different colours

One 1¾” x full width of fabric (42”) strip

Two 10” squares

One 11” square wadding

One 7¼ square in one colour + Four 3 7/8” squares in different colour

12” square lightweight sew-in interfacing

Rotary cutting tools including square acrylic ruler and long acrylic ruler

Thread to match fabrics

Sewing machine and all available presser feet - foot control and power cable also useful!!

General sewing accessories