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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
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D, K, X , Q
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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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t,f,a,e,g,r,n,m & w!
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Alzheimers
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Bed quilt in progress:
 
" I make this quilt for me &
My Beloved Husband Tom to sleep beneath + our cats Habibi, Howler,
Pokey & Lily to sleep upon. I make this quilt to keep us snuggly,
cuddly & cozy. May we always be happy, healthy & well loved.
Sweet Dreams, Tonya Ball Ricucci, Age 40. Cairo Egypt 2005"
Capital
A
A is made the same as V,
just with an extra bar across the middle. I start out with a vaguely
correctly-sized triangle, and slice through it somewhere, keeping in
mind that the upper triangle will lose a 1/4" seam allowance
all the way around. Then I sew in my skinny strip of letter fabric.
Yeah, there's shrinkage. You can just cut even with the upper
triangle,
as shown, or at an angle - you just need to end up with a straight edge.
<> I added the legs on, just like with the V.
I wanted a jauntier angle across the top, so I sliced it and added one
of the leftover background triangles. I evened up, following the lines
of the letter and added on the sides some
background the same way I did on the V.
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Capitals
N and Z
Capitals
N and Z are made the same way, although I use
a long skinnier rectangle to start out the N than I do for
the Z. Just like with the M, you want to start the
slice at least 1/4" down from the top and bottom of the letter.
Insert your strips, add the sides to the N
and the top bottom to the Z and you're done. Now in the case
of my N, I did add more background to the bottom of the
middle (just like with the M) but that's just how I wanted it
to look.
Capital
M
The easy way to make an M is to simply make an E
and lay it on its side. Take a look at my quilt Star Light to
see how that looks!
If you want angles, start by making a small V or a large
narrow one. I started with a small V cut so that the legs of
the V
end on the sides rather than in the corner or the top of the section.
(That has to do with where you want this bit to meet the side of the
letter - I have made some M's where the middle bit has ended
up detached from the sides and I don't like it so well.)
After finishing up the V portion, I added some background at
the bottom and a wide strip on the left and a medium strip on the
right. I present, the M.
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Capital W
W can
be made like an E or like an M.
You
can also decide to torture yourself and make it more complicated. I
took approx 3" of my wide background and cut where I imagined my
left-slanting legs of my W would be. A note at this point:
the W will only end up as tall as your section is wide.
I
sewed medium l-fabric to the left sides of my background as follows. I
evened up the edges. Next I cut a slant into the middle bit of
background, approx 1/4" over and did my strip insert maneuver with a
narrow
letter fabric. And added narrow letter fabric on the right side as well.
I cut out new bits of background to add to the sides of the W.
Looking at the finished product, I probably should have cut down that
middle area more. If I were obsessive about it, could take that middle
seam out, recut and resew, but what would be the point of that?
What would you spell with these
letters?!
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