Selecting a Pattern and Fabric Selection

• Precuts / Fabric Bundles

• What to look for in a beginner pattern

• How to select your own fabric for a quilt

  • Rob Appell’s Video

• Types of Sewing Machines

• Your first quilt Video Series with Melanie Ham

Accurate Cutting and Piece Organization

• Using a Rotary Cutter

• Accurate Cutting

• How to use your Ruler

• How to organize all your pieces after you cut them

Sewing straight and with accurate seam allowances

• How to sew in a straight line

• Tools to help

• Accurate Seam Allowances

Pressing/Ironing

• What is Pressing?

• Why Pressing your seams is important

• Pressing open vs to the side

• Recommended Tools (wool pressing mat, clappers? irons?)

Trimming/Squaring your blocks

• How to square up your blocks

• What to do if your block is too small

Borders

• Correct way to add a border

• Do I need borders?

• How wide do I make my borders?

Preparing for Quilting

• Types of Batting

• Squaring your Quilt

• Making your Quilt Sandwich

• Free Motion Quilting

• Straight Line Quilting

Using a Professional Long Arm Service

• Thread Selection

• Pantograph Selection

• How to prepare your quilt for the Long Arm

• What to expect

Binding/Labeling

• Premade vs make your own Binding

• What is Bias Binding?

• How wide?

• Flange Binding

• How to add Binding

• Types of Labels and when to add them