UFOQAL2017 - Choose Your UFO Your Choice Quilt Along

Pull out those UFOs and join us for the Choose Your UFO Quilt Along! (#UFOQAL2017).

As we near the end of our event, we want to encourage you to keep on working on those UFO projects. It's never too late to start!

There was a recent discussion in the Facebook group about binding. I've been lucky enough over the years to learn many tips and tricks from some awesome local quilters. There are lots of way to create binding for your quilt and we encourage you to use the technique that works best for you.

Here are a few of our favorites:

Machine Binding Tutorial from me (Jennifer Ofenstein)!

Machine binding to the front with a hand stitched back.

Machine binding with piping.

How to Bias Bind a Quilt (for quilts with curves)

Do you have a favorite binding technique? We'd love to know!

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Share photos of your #UFOQAL2017 with our flickr group for a chance to win one of our fabulous monthly prizes! You receive one entry for each project. Only photos posted to flickr are eligible to win.

Let's get finished!

 

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How to Use Fandom In Stitches

• Difficulty Levels - FiS patterns are rated on a scale of 1 - 5. You can find this chart (or similar) on each pattern page. Patterns are rated by their respective designers. 

• beginner

  adv. beginner

  intermediate

  adv. intermediate

  advanced

• When printing pdf patterns, choose "no scaling" for the most accurate pattern size. This is especially important on paper pieced patterns.
• How to Enlarge & Reduce patterns
• How to be a Fandom In Stitches Designer

Applique

• Learn to Applique from Quilter's Cache
• Pat Sloan's Fusible Applique Tutorial
• Fused Edge Applique Tutorial from Connecting Threads

Binding

• Creating Double Fold French Binding from Pink Chalk Studio
• French Binding Tutorial from Hart Cottage Quilts
• Double Fold French Binding from Sun Shower Quilts
• One Seam Bias Binding from Quiddity Quilts
• Continuous Binding Tutorial from Such A Sew & Sew
• Joining the Ends of Double Fold Binding by Shelley Rodgers

Designing Your Own Patterns

• Designing patterns in Quilt Assistant by TweLoQ
• Thoughts and suggestions on designing without quilting software with Drawing A Patchy Heart (Paper Piecing) from Sewhooked
• Quilt Assistant - Free Quilt Design Software (please read the user agreement carefully, this software is for free patterns only). Read Jennifer's review of Quilt Assistant.
• Electric Quilt 7 - for-purchase quilt design software
• Inkscape - An Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format.

Embroidery

• Embroidery tutorials of Jenny Hart over at Sublime Stitching
• Sarah's Hand Embroidery Tutorials (great individual stitch tutorials)
• General Embroidery Tips from Penguin and Fish
• Hand Embroidery Tutorials from Urban Threads
• Video tutorial playlist created by Jennifer
• Transferring Patterns to Fabric
• Four methods from Urban Threads
• Using a Light Box from Kristina Yarn
• Using Sticky Fabri-Solvy from Wild Olive
• Dark Fabrics from Sublime Stitching
• Can Washable Crayola Markers be used to mark Embroidery & Quilting patterns?
• Useful Embroidery Products
• Printable Sticky Solvy (print & stick water soluble fabric, Jennifer's favorite for embroidery!)
• Green Sewline Pencil
• DMC Embroidery Transfer Pen
• Saral Transfer Paper (another great option for transferring an entire pattern)
• Artograph Light Box
• 8" x 8" Q-Snap Frame
• Darice 7" Spring Tension Hoop

Paper Piecing

• About Paper Piecing - an entire page of tutorials and information, including a free online class from Jennifer Ofenstein.
• Practice Paper Piecing from Quilter's Cache
• Paper Piecing Art: Beginner & Beyond (Learn to Paper Piece), a complete video tutorial from Jennifer Ofenstein
• Paper Piecing Tutorial from Such A Sew & Sew
• Paper Piecing a 5" Harry Potter block from ThriftyFun
• How to Paper Piece video in Italian by Gaya

More Paper Piecing Hints

• Always use 100% cotton, good quality quilting fabric.
• Use lightweight paper when printing, as it tears off easier. Recycled printer paper works great. You can also try a specialty paper like Carol Doak's Foundation Paper .
• Many of the patterns include 1/4" seam allowance, for those that do not, you can easily add it using this tutorial.
• Our Designers originate from all over the world, and paper sizes vary. Printing with "no scaling" ensures that patterns print at the size the designer intended.
• 5" patterns can easily be enlarged to 10" by copying at 200% on your own printer or at a copy shop (they can use bigger paper!) OR use our handy tutorial for enlarging/reducing your patterns at home. You may find that more complicated patterns are easier to piece when enlarged.
• When enlarging patterns, we recommend printing, cutting apart the pattern pieces and enlarging the units individually.
• Almost all patterns are mirror images. The image will be correct AFTER you piece it.
• To make sure your blocks align perfectly, find adjacent corners of two pattern pieces, push a pin through the exact corners of each to match the two. Pin or hold the pieces in place for sewing.
• Colors used on patterns are just a guide for fabric placement, the selection is up to you. Black and white printing is always an option.
• Leave the paper attached to the block until you sew it in it's final place, whether it be a quilt, purse, etc. That will keep the bias edges from stretching.
• Most of our patterns are multi-unit patterns. Accuracy is very important. If you're new to paper piecing, just take your time and practice, practice, practice!
• Suggested uses... quilts (of course!), handbags, banners, pillows, totes... use your imagination!

Quilting

• The Free Motion Quilting Project

Rotary Cutting

• Rotary Cutting Tutorial from The Purl Bee
• Rotary Cutting for Lefties from Sew Inspired

Traditional Piecing

• Chain Piecing from Stitches In Play

Have a favorite technique tutorial? Share it in comments and we'll add it to the list!