Paper piecing is one of the best techniques for precise piecing. Elizabeth Dackson provides tips to using paper templates to get perfect points. Watch the video for this...
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Elizabeth Dackson is a self-proclaimed fabric addict and quilter. She fell in love with quilting as her son entered the terrible twos, and found her sanity again in making quilts. Her first quilting book, Becoming a Confident Quilter, was released in the fall of 2013, chock full of tips, exercises, and skill-building quilt patterns. Her second book, The Quilter’s Paper Piecing Workbook, was released in May 2016. She designs quilt patterns found both on her blog, Don’t Call Me Betsy (www.dontcallmebetsy.com), as well as in various quilting publications, including Quilty, Modern Quilts Unlimited, Quiltmaker, International Quilt Festival: Quilt Scene, and Fat Quarterly. She is the founding president of the Tampa Modern Quilt Guild. Elizabeth lives in Florida with her patient husband, eight year old son, baby girl and two dogs.
Learn how to make half-square triangles, a versatile block that is one of the most basic building blocks of many modern (and all) quilts. Episode Handouts Half-Square...
Modern Traditionalism is the use of an identifiable traditional block, modernized in some way, using design techniques like color, scale, symmetry, and grid placement...
