QUILTsocial Issue 21
Welcome to this very colorful issue that is sure to help banish the winter blahs! Take your quilted projects to the next level with 15 spectacular hand embroidered stitches that enrich the look of quilted projects. See how to make these with clear and easy to follow illustrations. Equally as colorful are our 3 ‘too-cool-for-school’ pencil cases to make for the little ones (and maybe not so little ones) in your life. Check out our many tutorials on how to work with templates and the best ways to transfer designs for all your quilting dreams! With so much quilting fun to engage in there’s no time to mope around! Happy Quilting!
Welcome to this very colorful issue that is sure to help banish the winter blahs! Take your quilted projects to the next level with 15 spectacular hand embroidered stitches that enrich the look of quilted projects. See how to make these with clear and easy to follow illustrations. Equally as colorful are our 3 ‘too-cool-for-school’ pencil cases to make for the little ones (and maybe not so little ones) in your life. Check out our many tutorials on how to work with templates and the best ways to transfer designs for all your quilting dreams! With so much quilting fun to engage in there’s no time to mope around! Happy Quilting!
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Step 4
Continue to tie and wrap other colors
evenly on each side of the center wrap
incorporating your tied ends into the
wrapping until it looks like the picture
below. Use your yarn needle to burry
loose ends and tie off thread.
Building on the yarn wrap with other colors
Step 5
Bend your skein in half and using about
10” of the last color of floss, tie your
wrapped loop, split the floss in half and
use these split ends to tie it tight.
Step 7
Attach the tassel to your zipper and admire.
The final result with Elan Snap-Clip and DMC Matte Cotton Yarn
If you are more
of an auditory
learner, you may
wish to watch my
YouTube Tutorial
to make these
zippers pulls.
I hope you
enjoyed these
pencil case
tutorials and
that you have
built more
zipper insertion,
applique
and quilting
confidence. Be
sure to try these
zipper pulls for
the young ones
in your life to help
brighten up their
school year with
just 2 specific
sewing notions
DMC Matte Cotton
Yarn and Elan
Snap-Clip.
Happy Sewing.
Robin Bogaert
www.quiltingintheloft.com
Zipper pull bent and last color wraps the tassel
mop together with the arms of the zipper pull
Step 6
Cut the looped ends of your tassel so
that they’re even.
Cutting the loop ends so that the tassel mop is even
Bright, pretty, practical zipper pulls add a fun accessory to the back-to-school pencil cases.
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