I follow all the guidelines you listed. Before I did, I had a lot of wonky 4 patches. Now I really try to achieve no sewing larger than needed in the first place.
Thank you. I have been having some troubles with my strips and I do iron frequently but I am going to add a line and press more frequently. From your explanations, I should definitely see an improvement. I learn so much from you, THANK YOU for sharing your knowledge.
Dear Deb, thank you very much for your tips. I am a new quilter about to start a project with jelly rolls and I was so afraid of sewing wavy strip sets.
Ah, that's one of our new patterns that was just released a few days ago! It's called Beaded Lace, and you can order it from my website here: bit.ly/BeadedLacePattern
Good tips! If your iron doesn’t require distilled water, do you have a preference? We have well water that is softened & conditioned but it still can have minerals. Nothing worse than my iron accumulating minerals!
It's a surface I make myself - it's plywood, covered in 2 layers of batting and a top layer of heavy duty canvas. I talk more about the ironing surface here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-WKX3mRC_Iuk.html (at 8:27 if the link doesn't take you to the correct timestamp).
I have a friend that rarely press her fabric and cuts her fabric with wrinkles make me crazy. I had to give her a pressing lesson. still have to remind her. but she had a stroke so maybe that's why.
Deb, love your tutorials, however!!!!! could you learn to speak a tad slower? I have trouble keeping up with you! (I've heard that we in the South talk a little bit slower. I don't hear any faster than I talk! Lol)
RU-vid does have the option to change your playback speed in settings. Some voices do not do well slower than ‘normal’ but this video sounded fine at .75x. At .5 there was the echo chamber effect, though. I lived in the upper midwest for 32yrs then moved to Texas. My speaking speed has definitely slowed over the past 20yrs though I am still asked to slow down from time to time!
