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Technique:Finishing

Flange Binding Tutorial

10 May 2014 Filed Under: Technique:Finishing

It’s funny how the same idea can reach you via different media. Just this week I followed a Facebook link to Susie’s Magic Binding tutorial – a fun technique where you sew two strips together to create a flange binding that is attached completely by machine.  Then I opened Quilters Companion Issue #67 (the one […]

Overcast Stitching

Overcast Stitching on an Overcast Weekend

27 April 2014 Filed Under: Technique:Finishing

It’s been rainy and overcast for much of the long weekend. Perfect conditions to get reacquainted with my machine in the Serendipity studio (take a tour!). I have completed my donation for the 2014 SAQA Benefit Auction.  I will save showing the front for another day but here is the back – sans sleeve and […]

A “D” for Quilt Sleeves

25 March 2014 Filed Under: Technique:Finishing, Tutorials

Do you get a “D” for your quilt sleeves aka rod pockets?  I do!  and I don’t mind saying so.  Making a sleeve with plenty of allowance to accommodate the hanging rod/dowl/baton helps to ensure that the quilt hangs well without bulging or distortion along the top.  The other thing you will notice is that […]

Another Modified Hanging Sleeve

More About Hanging Textile Works

3 December 2012 Filed Under: Curator Knowledge, Exhibition: Beneath the Southern Sky, Technique:Finishing

Curate (verb) – to select, organize, and look after the items in (a collection or exhibition). As curator of the Beneath the Southern Sky travelling exhibition of textile works, I seek to maintain the works in optimum condition on tour and to ensure that they are displayed in an attractive and professional manner. Yesterday I […]

Hanging Rods

Hanging Arrangements for Textile Works

27 November 2012 Filed Under: Curator Knowledge, Exhibition: Beneath the Southern Sky, Exhibition:Living Colour!, Technique:Finishing

One of the challenges of curating a travelling exhibition of textile works is to ensure that it can be displayed securely and attractively in a variety of venues with a minimum of fuss. Accordingly, I specify that all textile worksgoing on tour must have a combined hanging sleeve and velcro strip casing attached to the […]

Overcast Edge (from front)

Overcast Edge Quilt Finish

25 September 2012 Filed Under: Gadgets & Notions, Technique:Finishing

A few months ago, the Janome Horizon 7700 joined me in the Serendipity Studio. A full review is for a later blog post but I can report that yesterday, for the very first time, I changed the settings from straight stitch to something else. That means I now have used two! of the zillion stitches […]

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