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June 15, 2023
Self-Printed Quilt Labels from Quilting through Rose-colored Trifocals!

Here's a quick tutorial for printing quilt labels with an ink jet printer at home with regular fabric.  I fall back on this approach when I don't have any commercial printer ready fabric or when I want to use quilt fabric.  I think I learned how to do this from Caryl Bryer Fallert many years ago in a fabric printing workshop she taught for my shop.

It's simple but there are a few tricks for success.

This weekend, I finished the twelfth block for my version of Pamala Jo Designs Whirly Weeds 2023 Sewalong and I have ...

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added by Mary Huey 1 year, 4 months ago. under ink jet printer , printing on fabric , quilt labels , whirly weeds
A Whirly Weeds Setting from Quilting through Rose-colored Trifocals!

As I said in my last post, I had a vision for a setting the Whirly Weeds blocks!
The trick was to get it out of my head and assembled.
So here's an overview of my process.
Being such a subtle assortment of prints, the photographs look a bit boring -- nothing to be done!?!

My goal was to stagger the blocks to look like random leaf rosettes as they might be growing in an open field.  Therefore, the first step was to stagger them around the design wall and step back for a day to let the arrangement "steep ...

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added by Mary Huey 1 year, 4 months ago. under quilt setting , whirly weeds
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