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BYOP - Build Your Own Plaid
Retail Price: $8

This pattern is designed for experienced quilters who enjoy working with decorative threads and/or delight in three dimensional designs. After strips are “decorated”, an interwoven design will be PIECED. Alternatively, striped fabric could be used rather than stitched fabric! (Finishing instructions are not included.)
Instructions feature the following:

  • Tips for working with heavy decorative threads
  • Piecing with partial seams
  • Mitering borders

Supply List
  • Background fabric: small, 1/8 yd: large, 1 yd
  • Inside border: small, 1/8 yd: large, none
  • Outside border: small, 1/4 yd; large, included in background
  • Feature fabrics (decorated pcs): small, 1/8 yd each of 3 fabrics; large, 1/4 yd each of 6-12 fabrics
  • lt - med weight fusible interfacing: small, 1/4 yd; large, 1 1/8 yds
  • Decorative threads heavier than regular sewing threads (Cotty by Pfaff, Jeans Stitch by YLI, pearl cotton size 12/8/5, Madeira Decor, Pearl Crown Rayon by YLI, rayon ribbon floss, chenille, boucle’, eyelash, confetti,...)
  • Cotton thread to coordinate with your decorative thread OR background fabric OR feature fabrics
  • Sewing machine needles: Jeans/Denim or Universal size 70/10, AND Topstitch size 90/14
  • Design board/wall or some area to lay out design
  • Sticky note pad to serve as sewing machine guide
  • Starch
  • Scissors, pins, seam ripper
  • Rotary cutting equipment
  • Sewing machine, extra bobbin case (optional)
  • Optional: Quilting with Decorative Threads by Maurine Noble and Elizabeth Hendricks, Threadplay by Libby Lehman, both published by That Patchwork Place

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