Stained glass patchwork
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Stained glass patchwork
Help! Please can you give me any tips for doing stained glass patchwork and tell me of any potential pitfalls! I need to teach it to my group after Easter but have never done any other than a small sample. We will be stitching by machine using a 4mm twin needle. Many thanks!
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I have only used the twin needle method once for stained glass. My tip is to make sure the "glass" fabric covers the full space underneath, so that when you stitch the black bias down you catch more than a thread.... or it will pull out when washed.
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I don't have any personal experience but there seem to be a lot of tutorials on YouTube. Good luck!
https://www.youtube.com/results?sear...quilt+tutorial
https://www.youtube.com/results?sear...quilt+tutorial
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I did one nice but sewed black strips to the pieces before I joined them together..it was a bought pattern....can't remember name but all the blocks were the same, but then turned to look like "church" type stained glass...I wonder if that pattern is still available...come to think of it I also started one with dak brown strips...somewhere in my UFO cave.....
yes, there's one on YouTube very similar to mine. By rose smith
yes, there's one on YouTube very similar to mine. By rose smith
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I don't have any personal experience but there seem to be a lot of tutorials on YouTube. Good luck!
https://www.youtube.com/results?sear...quilt+tutorial
https://www.youtube.com/results?sear...quilt+tutorial
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That way you can find out what can go wrong/right ... and understand the process.
Otherwise, it could be very intimidating trying to teach others, to say the least embarrassing,
if you really are not proficient with the technique yourself.
Good Luck!
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