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Dos and Don’ts When Choosing Fabrics for Your Flower Art Quilt from Melinda's Cutting Garden

I’m writing this blog because I know many new-be quilters out there may need some guidance when choosing fabrics for a specific project. Specifically, one of my flower patterns or a landscaped, something that you want to give a realist/painterly look. It matters what kind of fabric you use. I’m going to speak specifically about my technique and using my flower patterns, but the concept works across the board. You can’t use any run-of-the-mill quilters stash for making these art quilts. So, what is my technique? I’m painting a painting using use fabrics. So, when ...

added by Cutting Garden Quilts 2 years, 4 months ago. under batiks , color chart , flower quilt patterns , fusible applique , fusible flowers

Texas Wildflower Class Starts Today from Melinda's Cutting Garden

Class starts today. I decide to just post the whole 2 1/2 hour class here and not break it up into 2 parts. You can watch this over and over if you need to review a technique. It's been a busy Thanksgiving weekend here which I'm sure you can understand. I hope everyone had a very blessed Thanksgiving. The video is at the bottom of this post.

If you need any supply to make this quilt. I have most of them on my Etsy shop.just click the button on the bar above. My shops has Steam-A-Seam ...

added by Cutting Garden Quilts 4 years ago. under flower quilt patterns , fusible applique , fusible flowers , melinda bula , renegade thread play , steam-a-seam 2 , sulky thread

Refresher Course's- How to work with and deal with Steam-A-Seam 2 from Melinda's Cutting Garden

Video's at at the bottom. So you will read the post!

Let’s get educated. Iv spent the last month working on making some “how to "or Tips and Tricks videos on how I do my technique for making my Art. Or as some of you may call it Quilt Art or Art Quilting! Call whatever you want but I’m creating and making stuff so I call it, Art and I use my sewing machine so that quilting so we have Quilt Art!

I get asked a lot of question about how I do what I do, why ...

added by Cutting Garden Quilts 4 years, 2 months ago. under flower quilt patterns , fusible applique , fusible flowers , melinda bula , steam-a-seam2 , sulky thread

3 ZINNIA Quilt-Class #2 from Melinda's Cutting Garden

The video is at the bottom of this blog.

It is so exciting to get this NEW 3 Zinnia quilt done. I hope this class will help you through the process of making this spectacular flower quilt.

I give a lot of tips and tricks to handling 3 flowers at once that will help even if you are only making one flower. I have put some chapter time stamps on this video so you can easily find something you want to review again or if you want to skip ahead.

9:08 Numbering Your Petals

10:40 Layering the Centers ...

added by Cutting Garden Quilts 4 years, 5 months ago. under flower quilt patterns , fusible applique , fusible flowers , melinda bula , zinnia quilt. melinda bula

3 Zinnia: Class #1 from Melinda's Cutting Garden

Video Class is at the bottom of this blog.

The history of making the 3 Zinnia quilt starts several years ago with me dying fabrics for my upcoming classes at the International Quilt Festival in Houston. I had seen past students having trouble with color and values and I thought that if I could make kits, they would all be successful and that is all a good instructor wants - for their students to be successful. So I became a dyeing machine. Morning, noon, and night, I was in the dying studio (the garage) working on perfecting my colors. It was ...

added by Cutting Garden Quilts 4 years, 5 months ago. under flower quilt patterns , fusible applique , fusible flowers , melinda bula , zinnia quilt. melinda bula

Zinnias on Parade from Melinda's Cutting Garden

What is a Saturday without a new video post from me? I made a new video called Zinnias on Parade - these are pictures from classes I've taught all over the country and at big shows. I thought you might like to see students' progress in a one day, 6-hour class. These beauties are in different stages of development and some of the fabrics used for these flowers were made from my hand-dyed fabrics (made in my garage) from back in the day. Some are the student’s own fabrics, too, and they are all beautiful no matter what fabric ...

added by Cutting Garden Quilts 4 years, 6 months ago. under flower quilt patterns , fusible applique , fusible flowers , melinda bula , zinnia quilt. melinda bula

Dogwood class #4 “Renegade Thread Play “ from Melinda's Cutting Garden

I have been excited to make this video and show you how to finish your Dogwood quilt or any other patterns you may have started in one of my classes and longed to finish. I have taught a lot of classes over the years and I know there are a lot of you wanting to finish your quilts. That is why I am doing these videos. I know some have criticized, "she is giving these away for free". I have had a great career and taught all over the country and internationally.

I've met a lot of wonderful people ...

added by Cutting Garden Quilts 4 years, 6 months ago. under dogwood , dogwood pattern , flower quilt patterns , fusible applique , fusible flowers , renegade thread play , sulky thread

Dogwood Class #2 Fusing, Layering and Backgrounds from Melinda's Cutting Garden

I am SO glad you joined me for Dogwood Class #2. This video is going to cover a lot and is 45 minutes with resting spots along the way. In this video, I will cover:

How to fuse large pieces of fabric (like color A in this pattern)
Which pieces to cut out first
How the layout guide works
Adding the lining pieces to color A
How to use parchment paper sheets
Working with the first layer
How to choose a background fabric

There is homework for next week, which is to fuse and cut out all your fabric pieces ...

added by Cutting Garden Quilts 4 years, 7 months ago. under dogwood , flower quilt patterns , fusible applique , fusible flowers , melinda bula

Make It With Melinda! from Melinda's Cutting Garden

I have been working hard on creating a blog class for you. I have had 15 classes canceled so far this year and that's a lot of disappointed students. Some classes and events are being rescheduled for next year and I look forward to seeing all of you. But having this time is kind of sweet since I get to be creative and play.

I had this idea of an online “Make it with Melinda” class using my YouTube videos, posting them on my blog. Oh, and did I say they are free? Well, sort of. OK, you have ...

added by Cutting Garden Quilts 4 years, 7 months ago. under art quilts , dogwood , etsy , flower quilt patterns , fusible applique , fusible flowers , melinda bula

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