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Lessons in letters!
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Intro To Letters
H, I, T
Page 2
L, U, C, O, P, R
Page 3
J, E, F, B
Page 4
S, G, V, Y
Page 5
A, N, Z, M, W
Page 6
D, K, X , Q
Page 7
Putting It All
Together!
Strip Widths!
Taking The
Leap!
X's & O's Challenge quilt!
Lower Case Letters!
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i,j,h,y,b,d,p & q!
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2
t,f,a,e,g,r,n,m & w!
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Tonya's Tea Party!
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Drawing Teapots!
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Quilting
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Quilting Out Of The Frame!
Fantabulous Fans!
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"Sensational"
By Tonya
Here's another happy, positive quilt from my collection. And amazingly
enough, yet again, just another photo of the top. Not even the whole
top - there should be a couple of borders on here. It was quilted with
the obligatory black perle cotton fans.
I made "Sensational" right after "Bricks" back
in 2002. It's pieced in
a slightly different way than my other letter quilts are, but not so
much so that you'd notice it right away. I loved the look and feel of
this quilt so much that I made my recent bed quilt with the same colors
and black letters. The words read: Sensational, Fantastic, marvelous,
wonderful, incredible, magnificent.
Capital L
Capital L is built basically
like a half-log cabin block
For the L, cut approx 1 1/2" of letter
fabric and attach to a wide bit of background. Then whack off the extra.
Attach a piece of letter
fabric to the left side, and again trim. There's the L. In this photo, I'm also showing the
beginning of my U (on the left), cuz yes, it is an L too before the final bit is added. For
the UI
started with a skinny rectangle of background fabric and added it to my
widest width of letter fabric. I point this out to show that even I
explain construction one
way, there are always other ways to do it. The only important thing is
that it looks like the letter you want.
Capitals
U and C
This is the U
finished, along with a couple of leftover u's from my last
project. The
one on the far right has had its height adjusted to whatever it was I
was finishing letters off to. Pity the poor brain, it can't even think
back that far.
Here
is my C and another spare C. C is made the exact
same way as the U (just tilt your head to the right and
you'll see it). I prefer a square-ish shape to start out my C's,
rather than the rectangle for the U, but that' s personal
preference.
Capital
O
Oh
oh oh! I bet you've already figured out how to make the O.
Just one more bit of letter fabric than the C and U.
Now I admit to being in something of a rut. I love how it looks when I
start with a small background squarish shape and add two narrow
l-fabrics and then two really wide ones.
Capital P
P
starts with a small u, which gets sewn onto a background
strip. Now to actually make it a P, you have to sew a letter
strip to the left of the side ways U unit, otherwise you'll be making
something else entirely.
Capital
R
The capital R starts out the same way the P
does, only this time a strip needs to be inserted in the background
fabric first. At this stage I was trying to decide whether or not to
add some background to the right of the upper bit to make it wider. I
decided against it.
I left the longer lower bit alone
- may cut that at a slant later.
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