Creative Ideas and Tips for Using Stripes in Quilts

Quilting Digest | May 3, 2019 | Quilting How-To

Let the Fabric Do the Work for You!

Striped fabrics can not only jazz up a quilt, they can also do a lot of the work for you. For example, stripes can substitute for pieced segments, saving lots of time and effort.

In the following video, Sherri Driver from National Quilters Circle shows many creative ways to use stripes in quilts. She also discusses how to match stripes at corners (or not) and provides many other tips for incorporating stripes into quilts.

She also demonstrates how to sew together strips of striped fabric, and how to match stripes when making a simple block.

Sherri provides a lot of helpful information that will have you looking at striped fabrics in a whole new way.

Click here to watch the video at YouTube if it doesn’t play on your device.

You’ll find a great tip for matching stripes on mitered seams here. It can easily be adapted to other seams as well.

See two beautiful quilts made primarily from striped fabrics here and here. The patterns are free.

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Let the Fabric Do the Work for You!

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