Mastering a Miniature

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Details

Learn everything you need to know about making miniatures using foundation paper piecing.  Students will make some blocks and learn how to insert a perfect quarter-inch border.  Quilting, binding options and other miniature related topics will be discussed.

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Student Requirements:

• Basic Sewing Supplies
• Fabric: The four fabrics that you choose need to be 100% cotton and mini print or plain. There should be 2 lights and 2 darks so that there is enough contrast in your design to make the design pop!
  o From each of the 4 mini-print or plain fabrics, please cut:
  - Twenty-three 2 inch squares
  - Eight 2½ inch squares
  - Fifteen 1½ inch squares
  o Choose which fabric you would like to have as the centre of each block and cut thirty 1 inch squares from this fabric - Sue chose red.
  o Choose two of the fabrics and from one of them cut two strips 2 inches by 6 inches.
  o From the other fabric, cut a strip of fabric three-quarters of an inch by 6 inches.
• Machine quilting thread in a neutral colour
• 2 bobbins pre-wound with the same thread
• Cutting mat and rotary cutter with a new blade
• A six-inch quilt ruler
• A wooden iron or a wooden clothes peg
• Sewing Machine in good working order;
  o Quarter-inchch presser foot and
  o Open toe appliqué presser foot
• Extension cord, 15 amp plug or adaptor, surge protector plug

NOTE: Precutting must be done before class, as there will not be class time available for cutting.