Oh yeah! I forgot to tell you. In my Home Ec class back in the late 60's, our teacher made us find a thread that went across the width of the fabric to find the straight edge. Talk about tedious!
Oh my, you had me open a can of worms🤣. Decided to tidy up the top shelf in my sewing room. Well, found things I had no idea what I had bought for, several craft projects that are going to our missions shop, quilt frames for free motion quilting, wire frames for wreaths, fairy lights and batteries. The frames I’ll keep, but the rest will go to new homes. AND I’m only two thirds finished. But it’s a start, was feeling claustrophobic and it’s getting better. Told hubby was going through everything but fabric as I’d just done that last fall. The eye level part of room looked good, but the high ups and under the tables needed tidying up. Have a wonderful weekend.
I love your Never enough Chocolate quilt, the pattern pic doesn’t give it justice. Your quilt is gorgeous. Your Dresden quilt, well let’s say I’m in love with it…lol. Just seeing this video in 2022…lol
This is how I was taught to making sure the fabric is lying on the straight. While holding both selvedges in one hand and the centre edge in the other, we aligned the selvedges up, adjusting the upper or lower side of the fabric until they lay exactly on top of each other. The fabric (fold) in the other hand would hang without a twist. Both top and lower edges may both now need to be trimmed. Thanks for enthusiasm and sense of fun, I love tuning in to youe videos.
I just got a bunch of fabrics from my sister-in-law's mom who is in her 90's and used to sew clothes. As I unfolded the fabrics, I found several that still had pattern pieces pinned to them! Those are old projects!
On the Riley Blake channel there is a good video on how to straighten a skewed fabric panel . This shows the straightening method i was taught back in the late 60s. It is also the way I was taught when I was in teacher training college. These days the method seems to have disappeared from everyone's memory but it works.
Thank you Pat for the daily videos. Always full of information and gives me a lovely positive start to the day. I love love love your quilt alongs. I straighten fabric as I was taught in Junior High school about a century ago. I pull a thread from selvage to selvage on one edge and cut with scissors on the pulled thread line. Then I fold the fabric so the two selvage edges are together. If the cut edge from the straightened edge doesn’t align, I pull the short side fabric on the bias until they do align. It really cuts down on fraying edges and loose thread clean up. I’m told that fabric can often becomes twisted when rolled on the bolts at the factory and washing before cutting will help straighten it as well.
From one garment seamstress to another "You nailed it, girl!" I can't seem to break myself of getting my fabric back on the straight of grain. It bugs me to no end if it is not.
Great. Ideas! Your followers might need to know how to put fabric back on grain. If fabric gets sewn up and fabric is off grain and not straight, you final project will straighten itself over time and become crooked. So you need to straighten the grain line before you cut.
Hi love the quilt in blue I'm a purple color person never have bought a kit I make my own pattern what ever I see 60s this morning in Salem Indiana rain late have good day
Great chat this morning. Thank you. I feel better knowing I'm not the only one having quilt tops "in a bucket" & on my list to finish. And, when I teach basic quilt classes we call the wave in non-straight yardage a SMILE. So, to get the fabric to quit mocking us...we wipe that smile off. 😉😉😉. We hold the fabric fold down, lower one side about an inch & a half and move the fabric one way or other to remove the smile. No more angled cuts. Another tip: do this about every yard or so just to realign. Happy stitching.
Always great tips and happiness daily! Love those quilts especially the Dresdens. I really want to make a quilt with them if/when I get my UFO list down. You can also straighten the edge of the fabric by nipping it with scissors, tear it and then press. That way you find the straight of grain.
Yes, pressing will work if the grain line is not too far off. Most of the time I have a helper grasp the corner diagonally opposite from me and we coax the fibers back to true by tugging on those opposite corners.
I am so inspired by all your projects! Now I am challenged to start using the VERY charming novelty fabrics you choose. WOW. I think I have been stuck in Fig Tree and other collections and now I feel challenged to branch out. Thanks for the push! Love to watch your videos. ❤️❤️❤️❤️
I started adding little note papers with my fabric I buy now so I remember what I planned for that fabric. Now I just need to whittle that fabric down so can get some new fabric!!! Or one done and then new fabric, better yet do 2 and then can get a piece of fabric....!
Thank you Pat for this video. I am now working on a very"wonky" or"twisted " piece of fabric to cut for a backing. After viewing your video, I learned how to straighten it. I have been sorting through my fabric collections and deciding what I can give away to charity. Oh my! It's hard to part with some of the fabric and projects. Have a glorious day. Happy Quilting.
I enjoy watching you every day, you are so inspirational and effects' puts smile in my heart each day. Off to working in sewing area now. Have a blessed day!
Oh my gosh, great minds and all that🤔I have just this week been going through project boxes and fabric boxes and *found* things that require some decision making.😉 love your shirt by the way.😀
I loved looking at your find. The chocolate quilt was gorgeous. And I liked the Dresden with the black and white dots. I love dresdens. They were all gorgeous. This is the fun part. I loved the way you showed how to hold the fabric to straighten edges. I love your Morrison park red. Its beautiful.
Yes. That is referred to as being "off-grain." The first step is to find the true grain line by ripping the fabric from selvage to selvage on the raw ends; or pull a thread out from selvage to selvage and remove the off-grain end along the void left by the thread you pulled out. Bring the selvage edges together to meet. If, when the torn or cut ends are matched up, the "wave" Pat pointed out shows up along the fold, the fabric is off-grain. Slide the selvage edges back and forth until the "wave" disappears. The next step is to get a helper and the two of you grasp opposite corners (the ones that hang toward the center of the piece) and tug or pull on those corners. Re-check to see if the grain line hangs flat. Depending on the tightness of the weave, sometimes it takes several tugs to coax the fibers back into square; sometimes it can shift too much the other direction if the weave is more loose. Be patient ... with practice this will help create a better finished project; especially when it comes to long, wide borders and backings.
So funny! You are reading my mind. I was going to ask a question about this, because I was trying to make a straight edge but it was waving at the fold. I realized I was twisting it. It took my awhile, but I figured it out! Thank you for validating my error..
Love the blue & white quilt. I will have to pick up that pattern. I did the deep dive yesterday with the sweeper. Easter is over and the dust bunnies had to go.
I literally just found a piece with a major wave in it today, I don't know how that happened and how I missed it for so long but it's good to know how to straighten it out, thanks!
Yikes, that is a challenge that I'm afraid to take while smack in the middle of two quilts right now. All my deeply-buried projects are bed size and nothing that could be quickly finished. Your quilt tops are very pretty and I hope you'll show us the raspberry mermaid quilt when it is finished. Thank you for the daily inspiration! Have a great weekend.
Your Famer's Wife Quilt makes me happy too! I love the colors; those are a combination I would have never put together. Thanks for the inspiration! And no...I am not going to do the challenge today! I started my own challenge three days ago, I am putting together a Quilter's Table (from JoAnn's) My daughter keeps asking if I want help, but I needed to do a big 3D puzzle. I will need her help to turn the dang thing over, it weighs 87 lbs!!! I also need to get on my two SALs that I am doing , your "Home Is..." and "Sewcialites". I'm behind two blocks on each, because...LIFE!!! "I love you! See you online."
What a coincidence! Just this morning I opened a box not knowing what was in it. I found a paper piecing project that I started 8 years ago and could not find anymore...
Never enough chocolate is a beautiful pattern. That’s so funny that you are doing that because I did that the other day. I went into my closet that has shelves and fabric on the shelves and went through my UFOS that needed to be done. So coincident that it’s your topic🤣
I love watching you and learning. When you see a piece of fabric that you love but, you have no intended purpose for it yet, how much do you buy of it? Just curious.
So, I have a question for you Pat. You have made lots before with all your unfinished quilt projects. Would theses have been on that list or are theses longer lost treasures that were not included? Determined to make my list today. A little scared what I might find 😉😂
Pat. I have a question. I know you do the wave stitch a lot on your quilting projects. Do you use a walking foot? Can I use a decorative stitch with the walking foot or do you just use the regular foot. By the way, I also have the Cresendo. Thank you.
@Liz Thibodeaux Girlfriend! I've been organizing, purging, etc & continue to find thing that "have been hiding" from me!!! I say the same thing :) And mine are just in one room!!
@@PatSloan Thanks Pat. Both WalMart used to do that, where I used to live. I moved to a different province and the WalMart here does not sell fabric on the bolt. Fabricland rips their cotton. They said *everyone* does that to get the material even. After they did that, it was like the edge would curl that was ripped. I always thought a *cut* edge was crisper. Thanks for your reply. (I'm in Alberta, Canada)
Yes, you have to square up your edges of yardage before cutting. The fabric must lay flat and you must cut off the uneven edges, even if it's an inch or more off. Otherwise your project is doomed from the start.
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I’m so impressed with your stamina. Daily videos. Twice a day videos. Live videos. Daily sewing. WOW! You’re like the Energizer BUNNY.
you are so sweet, thank you for being here!
The blue and white quilt is fabulous!! Oh look!! What a beautiful dresden plate with the shimmery gray background. You've found some treasures.
thank you!
I haven't heard the phrase
"You make a better door than a window "
for years!!!!!!!☺☺☺☺
One of my Dad's favorites when, as kids, we were blocking the TV!!
@@thewaldens90 that's exactly when i heard it from my Dad too....🙄☺☺☺
Oh yeah! I forgot to tell you. In my Home Ec class back in the late 60's, our teacher made us find a thread that went across the width of the fabric to find the straight edge. Talk about tedious!
Thank you for the "make your fabric even" tip. Boy oh boy that's going to make life easier. 😊
Oh my, you had me open a can of worms🤣. Decided to tidy up the top shelf in my sewing room. Well, found things I had no idea what I had bought for, several craft projects that are going to our missions shop, quilt frames for free motion quilting, wire frames for wreaths, fairy lights and batteries. The frames I’ll keep, but the rest will go to new homes. AND I’m only two thirds finished. But it’s a start, was feeling claustrophobic and it’s getting better. Told hubby was going through everything but fabric as I’d just done that last fall. The eye level part of room looked good, but the high ups and under the tables needed tidying up.
Have a wonderful weekend.
that is great!
I love your Never enough Chocolate quilt, the pattern pic doesn’t give it justice. Your quilt is gorgeous. Your Dresden quilt, well let’s say I’m in love with it…lol. Just seeing this video in 2022…lol
This is how I was taught to making sure the fabric is lying on the straight. While holding both selvedges in one hand and the centre edge in the other, we aligned the selvedges up, adjusting the upper or lower side of the fabric until they lay exactly on top of each other. The fabric (fold) in the other hand would hang without a twist. Both top and lower edges may both now need to be trimmed. Thanks for enthusiasm and sense of fun, I love tuning in to youe videos.
I love the quilt with the red backing. Have to love quilts in red!!!! Hugzzz
Wow! I love those quilts you’ve not completed yet. They are amazing! 😍😍😍😍
What a gold mine of U F O! How fun to find them
I just got a bunch of fabrics from my sister-in-law's mom who is in her 90's and used to sew clothes. As I unfolded the fabrics, I found several that still had pattern pieces pinned to them! Those are old projects!
On the Riley Blake channel there is a good video on how to straighten a skewed fabric panel . This shows the straightening method i was taught back in the late 60s. It is also the way I was taught when I was in teacher training college. These days the method seems to have disappeared from everyone's memory but it works.
The friendship bracelet blocks are so cute!
I finished 6 of the jolly bar quilt along blocks today.
Thank you Pat for the daily videos. Always full of information and gives me a lovely positive start to the day. I love love love your quilt alongs.
I straighten fabric as I was taught in Junior High school about a century ago. I pull a thread from selvage to selvage on one edge and cut with scissors on the pulled thread line. Then I fold the fabric so the two selvage edges are together. If the cut edge from the straightened edge doesn’t align, I pull the short side fabric on the bias until they do align.
It really cuts down on fraying edges and loose thread clean up. I’m told that fabric can often becomes twisted when rolled on the bolts at the factory and washing before cutting will help straighten it as well.
From one garment seamstress to another "You nailed it, girl!" I can't seem to break myself of getting my fabric back on the straight of grain. It bugs me to no end if it is not.
Thanks for the info on how to straighten the fabric. Been wanting to know how to do that for years
Oh I never watched this one. Learned something. Thank you Pat
Great. Ideas! Your followers might need to know how to put fabric back on grain. If fabric gets sewn up and fabric is off grain and not straight, you final project will straighten itself over time and become crooked. So you need to straighten the grain line before you cut.
Yes. Look at @Leslie Robinson's description of the straightening process.
Hi love the quilt in blue I'm a purple color person never have bought a kit I make my own pattern what ever I see 60s this morning in Salem Indiana rain late have good day
Hello from Jeffersonville!
@@katiecunningham6717 hi quilt friend how the weather there
@@donnapelfrey6954 just beautiful. On the deck with morning coffee and pat SLONE video.
Great chat this morning. Thank you. I feel better knowing I'm not the only one having quilt tops "in a bucket" & on my list to finish. And, when I teach basic quilt classes we call the wave in non-straight yardage a SMILE. So, to get the fabric to quit mocking us...we wipe that smile off. 😉😉😉. We hold the fabric fold down, lower one side about an inch & a half and move the fabric one way or other to remove the smile. No more angled cuts. Another tip: do this about every yard or so just to realign. Happy stitching.
Your mermaid quilt may coordinate with your Elephant Stomp quite nicely. Gorgeous!
Just finished hand piecing all 110 six inch blocks from the Farmers Wife book and hand quilted the entire quilt. It was a labor of love😊
@Faye T. Kudos to you!!
Wow! How long did it take you
Wow! So proud of you!!
Labor of love for who??? Hope they appreciate all that work! Congrats on finishing it.
Learned something new about how to straighten the fabric without the wave. Thank you for this terrific tip.
Always great tips and happiness daily! Love those quilts especially the Dresdens. I really want to make a quilt with them if/when I get my UFO list down. You can also straighten the edge of the fabric by nipping it with scissors, tear it and then press. That way you find the straight of grain.
Yes, pressing will work if the grain line is not too far off. Most of the time I have a helper grasp the corner diagonally opposite from me and we coax the fibers back to true by tugging on those opposite corners.
I just love your laugh! Thanks for the videos!
I am so inspired by all your projects! Now I am challenged to start using the VERY charming novelty fabrics you choose. WOW. I think I have been stuck in Fig Tree and other collections and now I feel challenged to branch out. Thanks for the push! Love to watch your videos. ❤️❤️❤️❤️
I love the “never enough chocolate”
The Farmer's Wife quilt is so beautiful. Glad it will be next up to get quilted. Such fun fabrics.
I learned I'm not the only one that can't find a big piece of fabric I thought I had; and then it turns up for a surprise! Glad I'm not the only one!
I started adding little note papers with my fabric I buy now so I remember what I planned for that fabric. Now I just need to whittle that fabric down so can get some new fabric!!! Or one done and then new fabric, better yet do 2 and then can get a piece of fabric....!
What a fun quilt! Blue and white quilts are my favorite, tho I'm working on a red and cream right now!
Blue/white or blue white and yellow also seem to be calming colors. This one is beautiful
How fun, I spent Wednesday looking in boxes I had no opened since I moved. Found things had been looking for.
Great information, Pat, thanks! I learn so much from you!
The blue and white is beautiful. The Dresden’s are gorgeous 😍
Thank you Pat for this video. I am now working on a very"wonky" or"twisted " piece of fabric to cut for a backing. After viewing your video, I learned how to straighten it. I have been sorting through my fabric collections and deciding what I can give away to charity. Oh my! It's hard to part with some of the fabric and projects. Have a glorious day. Happy Quilting.
Lots of great information! Thanks for the inspiration!
I enjoy watching you every day, you are so inspirational and effects' puts smile in my heart each day. Off to working in sewing area now. Have a blessed day!
Oh my gosh, great minds and all that🤔I have just this week been going through project boxes and fabric boxes and *found* things that require some decision making.😉 love your shirt by the way.😀
That thought popped into my head too. Pat, you look so good in that color shirt!
I loved looking at your find. The chocolate quilt was gorgeous. And I liked the Dresden with the black and white dots. I love dresdens. They were all gorgeous. This is the fun part. I loved the way you showed how to hold the fabric to straighten edges. I love your Morrison park red. Its beautiful.
Wow!!! Great colors
like your vacation time quilt
That is an amazing quilt.
Loved seeing your quilt tops. Mermaids is my favorite. Love the bright colors!
I like that blue and white quilt a lot!
That Vacation Time quilt is a banger! 🤩🤩🤩 (My teenagers taught me that word.)
I love the antique quilt blocks on gray! Back in the day I was taught to rip the edge or pull a thread if it seemed off or twisted from the bolt.
Yes. That is referred to as being "off-grain." The first step is to find the true grain line by ripping the fabric from selvage to selvage on the raw ends; or pull a thread out from selvage to selvage and remove the off-grain end along the void left by the thread you pulled out. Bring the selvage edges together to meet. If, when the torn or cut ends are matched up, the "wave" Pat pointed out shows up along the fold, the fabric is off-grain. Slide the selvage edges back and forth until the "wave" disappears. The next step is to get a helper and the two of you grasp opposite corners (the ones that hang toward the center of the piece) and tug or pull on those corners. Re-check to see if the grain line hangs flat. Depending on the tightness of the weave, sometimes it takes several tugs to coax the fibers back into square; sometimes it can shift too much the other direction if the weave is more loose. Be patient ... with practice this will help create a better finished project; especially when it comes to long, wide borders and backings.
Vacation time quilt is beautiful! The blue and white is my favorite, though!
So funny! You are reading my mind. I was going to ask a question about this, because I was trying to make a straight edge but it was waving at the fold. I realized I was twisting it. It took my awhile, but I figured it out! Thank you for validating my error..
Thanks for the straightening tip. I didn’t know that I needed to check that! Explains some frustrations!
Also, check out @Leslie Robinson's description of the straightening process.
Those are pretty tops. So nice.
I saw your vacation quilt a few weeks back and am thinking of making one. I need to print off the pattern.
Love the blue & white quilt. I will have to pick up that pattern. I did the deep dive yesterday with the sweeper. Easter is over and the dust bunnies had to go.
Beautiful quilts! Really love the blue & the mermaid one! Thanks for sharing! ❤️
That was my problem thank you
I love your laugh! Thanks Pat for all you do!
Chocolate pattern is great fro guys! I am always looking for masculine leaning patterns😊
I literally just found a piece with a major wave in it today, I don't know how that happened and how I missed it for so long but it's good to know how to straighten it out, thanks!
Great dots on the Dresden Plates
Yikes, that is a challenge that I'm afraid to take while smack in the middle of two quilts right now. All my deeply-buried projects are bed size and nothing that could be quickly finished. Your quilt tops are very pretty and I hope you'll show us the raspberry mermaid quilt when it is finished. Thank you for the daily inspiration! Have a great weekend.
More quilts to send to the spa...yeah!
I love 'Vacation Time' it's beautiful
Your Famer's Wife Quilt makes me happy too! I love the colors; those are a combination I would have never put together. Thanks for the inspiration! And no...I am not going to do the challenge today! I started my own challenge three days ago, I am putting together a Quilter's Table (from JoAnn's) My daughter keeps asking if I want help, but I needed to do a big 3D puzzle. I will need her help to turn the dang thing over, it weighs 87 lbs!!! I also need to get on my two SALs that I am doing , your "Home Is..." and "Sewcialites". I'm behind two blocks on each, because...LIFE!!! "I love you! See you online."
Thank you for a valuable teaching, I learned something today! 😊
Love your videos
What fun to find those!!! Like them all but love the mermaid one-that background was my favorite :)
mine too!
Thank you for the fabric tip, interesting.
Love the Dresden block!
love never enough chocolate! id get that one done!! Dresdens.. Beautiful!
Wow thank you
What a coincidence! Just this morning I opened a box not knowing what was in it. I found a paper piecing project that I started 8 years ago and could not find anymore...
Those topes are beautiful can’t figure which love best
Never enough chocolate is a beautiful pattern. That’s so funny that you are doing that because I did that the other day. I went into my closet that has shelves and fabric on the shelves and went through my UFOS that needed to be done. So coincident that it’s your topic🤣
I straighten my fabric like that, and I restraighten after I have cut a few strips just to be sure I'm still straight.
I love watching you and learning. When you see a piece of fabric that you love but, you have no intended purpose for it yet, how much do you buy of it? Just curious.
Love ' Never Enough Chocolate'
Wow I could only wish I could find such a box at my house.
Amazing tops! Are, you sure you’re sleeping at night and not quilting 24/7?
I rip my fabric to find straight of grain.
So, I have a question for you Pat. You have made lots before with all your unfinished quilt projects. Would theses have been on that list or are theses longer lost treasures that were not included? Determined to make my list today. A little scared what I might find 😉😂
Pat. I have a question. I know you do the wave stitch a lot on your quilting projects. Do you use a walking foot? Can I use a decorative stitch with the walking foot or do you just use the regular foot. By the way, I also have the Cresendo. Thank you.
I love that blue quilt top. What is pattern name and where do I get it.
Mary that is my pattern at pat-sloan.dpdcart.com/product/83163
I wash my fabrics then iron, so when I refold it is never were the fold was when I bought it. But if not washed that evil bend is there.
No old projects. Not sewing ones anyway. Just things I'm currently working on.
I have fabric stashed in 3 different rooms, so I am always hiding the fabrics I am needing from myself. Lol
oops!
@Liz Thibodeaux Girlfriend! I've been organizing, purging, etc & continue to find thing that "have been hiding" from me!!! I say the same thing :) And mine are just in one room!!
Can you correct the piece you cut if it has a bend in it so you can still use it?
after you cut the strip you can't get the bend out. you can just cut it out and use 2 strips instead of one long strip
@@PatSloan Thank you! So just cut out the bend section and use the rest, great I didn’t want it to go to waste. I love your videos!
@Pat do you straighten the fabric, then, with a slight cut at the edge and rip it across???
Just curious what you do next with the fabric?
i never rip fabric
@@PatSloan Thanks Pat. Both WalMart used to do that, where I used to live. I moved to a different province and the WalMart here does not sell fabric on the bolt.
Fabricland rips their cotton. They said *everyone* does that to get the material even. After they did that, it was like the edge would curl that was ripped.
I always thought a *cut* edge was crisper. Thanks for your reply. (I'm in Alberta, Canada)
💗💗💗
Don't think I've seen a lot of octopus fabric. My daughter would go crazy over it. An octopus is one of her tats.
how do you straighten 4 yards?
same way
I envy that you can lift your arms over your head!
Yes, you have to square up your edges of yardage before cutting. The fabric must lay flat and you must cut off the uneven edges, even if it's an inch or more off. Otherwise your project is doomed from the start.