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Quilters’ Cotton Expert quilters recommend pure cotton fabrics, particularly for beginner quilters. Cotton holds form and is easy to piece and press compared to other fabrics.
Cotton pieces easily adhere to one another, while polyester fabrics can slip without pins and may even stretch under the needle. As a durable natural fibre, cotton can endure relentless use and last a long time.
Colour Choice When choosing the right colour of fabric, often your own style and personality will prevail. However, always consider the quilt’s purpose and the accompanying ambience of the finished look. Is it a family throw, a baby quilt or a wedding gift? Each may dictate a different colour selection.
For a thrilling and vivacious quilt, use only pure secondary and primary colours. Avoid using white or black. To create a distinctive value to your quilt, use complementary colours—those colours found opposite each other on the colour wheel. For a great base, use black or white. White lightens adjacent colours while black darkens the hues. As such, warm hues (reds/ purples) come forward visually and cool (blue) tones recede.
Use the colour wheel to easily understand the relationship between colours. Do not be afraid to experiment and play around with the colours.
A quilter takes great pride and joy in seeing their completed quilt. Tere’s nothing more breathtaking. Never underestimate the challenge of selecting the right fabric and embellishments for your project because every quilting process is essential to your quilt’s creation.
I have a friend who is newly interested in quilting. In my limited time, I sew once a week with friends, and due to our small meeting place (someone’s home) and our close and longstanding friendships, we are not open to new members. How can I encourage my friend’s new interest while politely excluding her from my weekly patchwork get-together?
Quilting bees can be so very uplifting and supportive— and indeed, personal. Tere are several ways to further your friend’s interest and avoid the guilty feeling of
exclusion when logistics simply don’t allow new members in your long-established sewing circle.
Encourage membership in a quilting association such as the Irish Patchwork Society, Northern Ireland Patchwork Guild, or Quilters’ Guild of Ireland. While these are workshop, exhibition and administration driven, their members often form small neighbourhood patchworking and quilting groups that may be open to new members.
Point your friend towards the many resources available to quilters today. Books, magazines, and the internet open the world of patchwork and quilting in clear, illustrious and distinct beginner methods using tips, tutorials, illustrations and other learning tools. For social interaction, check out the many quilt blogs found on the Internet.
When you are together, visit a quilt show or quilt shop. Together ask other quilters which groups and classes might be available, thus sharing this information- gathering task with your friend. Afterall, it is she who will reap the benefits!
Do you have a question about a project or issue within patchwork? Contact us at
editorial@irishquilting.ie and we’ ll research a solution.
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