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How do I transfer a quilting design to my quilt?

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Are you confused about how to place your quilt in a hoop for hand quilting? Have you read the tips for how to "rock" your needle, but it just doesn't make sense?

In this DVD, you will learn:

  • how to place your quilt in a hoop (I did this wrong for years!)
  • how to hold your needle
  • how to guide your needle through the quilt layers
  • your choices of quilting needles
  • your choices of quilting hoops

And, you can watch as many times as you want to, conveniently on your TV or computer.

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Here’s one that is new to me, and I thought was very clever.

To transfer a quilting design from a book or magazine (or anything else…), lay a piece of netting over the design and trace the design with a permanent marker. This will probably bleed through to the book or magazine, so be sure that is ok.

Take the netting with the design marked on it, and place it on your quilt where you want the design, and then trace the design onto your quilt through the netting, using something that will come off.

There are special marking pens and pencils that will wash out of fabric; slivers of soap also work.

Try freezing the soap – it may be easier to use.

Happy Quilting!


Penny Halgren
Master Quilter

 




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30th o October, 2010

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