Fabric Chicago

By admin, February 9, 2008 4:42 am

fabric chicago

Step one: First, you need a bit of tracing paper. You can get in an art shop or your local craft store would too.

Step two: Cut a piece of tracing paper in a square. Starting at the center of the square, draw a diagonal line from corner to corner. Each straight line is drawn 3 / 8 inch from the front line until the position is filled, as shown. If you have a lot of chenille in a color fabric, use a 9 x to 9-inch square of tracing paper. For much less chenille, simply cut a smaller square of tracing paper. You can save the chenille in a bag Lockable and use it for many other projects.

Step three: Cut 3 pieces of fabric the same size as the tracing paper made in step two. Layer all with the right side of the fabric up.

Step Four: Place the tracing paper with lines drawn on the top of the fabric. Place paper on the right side of the fabric. If you and your layers of fabric with right side up, you can simply take the tracing paper marked on the top of the fabric.

Step Five: Using a small stitch length (about 10-12 points per inch) sewing each line has been developed in the tracing paper. Sew through all 3 tissue layers and through tracing paper on the top unit as one. Start sewing at the midline, then work on each side of the midline evenly until all lines are sewn. You can stop sewing about 2 inches on each side.

Step Seven: Take side corner sewn block (the corners near the seam lines past) and pull hard. This will tear the paper away from the tip for easy removal.

Step Eight: tracing paper rip all the layers of fabric

Step Nine: Cut between the stitching lines. Accurate measurement would be 3 / 16 inch seam line.

Step Ten: Sew pieces of chenille bias in the projects you want. Because this is a piece of bias, will go very well in curves. Be sure to back stitch the beginning and end of all parts. If a piece of fleece is too short for all the total area of your project, simply put a second piece on top of the previous piece. Make sure to back stitch chenille which added the first piece of chenille. When you brush, you not be able to see where the other stopped and started! After sewing all the pieces where you want, use a stiff bristled brush to clean chenille in a circular motion until it fluffs up. (The brush I used was purchased for fly tying and has wire bristle brush. It's perfect!)

Step Eleven: After the chenille fluff a bit, spray a soft haze of water in the chenille and keep brush in a circular motion. It is not long until light and fluffy all!

Step Twelve: complete the project as desired.

Susan Wood is an avid quilter and loves using up ALL of her scraps of fabric from large to small. Her finished project using the above method can be found at http://www.quiltingforless.blogspot.com You will find a variety of Foundation Paper Piecing Patterns and other fun and exciting items at http://www.quiltingforless.com/

Bryan Jones – Chicago Jack (Paul Anthony & ZXX Remix) – Control / Dirty Fabric



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