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41 fabric manipulation tutorials

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4-patch textured quilt

Textured quilt

You can buy the quilt tutorials in one single PDF document. The document contains a step by step instructions with colour photos in a  60+ page booklet each.

Four patch textured quilt pattern

Textured quilt pattern

If you’re only interested in learning a few fabric manipulations, then here you have my tutorials.

Texture 1: Twisted pleats

Texture 2: Waves

Texture 3: Ribbon loops

Texture 4: Rabbit ears

Texture 5: Pin tucks in two colours

Texture 6: Silky grooves

Texture 7: faux cathedral window variation

Texture 8: trapunto

Texture 9: netting ribbon

Texture 10: windmill cathedral window

Texture 11: beaded origami

Texture 12: shell smocking

Texture 13: clover

Texture 14: prairie points

Texture 15: improv fabric folding

Texture 16: honeycomb smocking

Texture 17: Pin tucks

Texture 18: Diamond pin tucks

Texture 19: Double controlled pleats

Texture 20: Doubled controlled pleats with ripple effect

Texture 21: Centered tucks with bow ties

Texture 22: Gathered strip

Texture 23: Cross pin tucks

Texture 24: Undulating tucks

Texture 25: Cross shirring

Texture 26: Prairie points pinwheel

Texture 27: Star gathering

Texture 28: Puff gathering

Texture 29: Lattice smocking

Texture 30: Cluster tucks

Texture 31: Diamond smocking

Texture 32: Smocked tucks

Texture 33: Pleated peek a boo

Texture 34: Gathered double edged ruffles

Texture 35: Smocked diamonds and puff gathering

Texture 36: Origami flower

Texture 37: Lozenge smocking

Texture 38: Origami pinwheel

Texture 39: Lotus flower smocking

Texture 40: Fabric origami

Texture 41: Echidna block

Order my book Turnabout Patchwork

“Turnabout Patchwork. Simple quilts with a twist” is all about playing with blocks – making a block, slicing it up, and turning or repositioning the pieces to make a completely different block (sometimes two smaller blocks) to yield endless quilt tops.

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41 comments

  1. Thank you for all the block designs. They are so beautiful. I especially love the smocking and different pintuck blocks. I fully intend to try each and every one of them. Keep up your good work.

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  11. An excellent website. Thanks Teresa. Our group is doing bunting to show a variety of techniques. No excuse now with 41 tutorials on hand.

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  15. Thank you for sharing your ideas and for providing details to allow us to recreate the blocks. I had the idea last year of making a textured lap quilt for my visually impaired Aunt, I’ve finally managed to get onto it (school holidays = time to sew). I am stoked with how it has come together (11 blocks + beaded label). I am just about to quilt it. Can’t wait to surprise her with it! Thanks again!

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  16. Thank you for sharing your ideas and for providing details to allow us to recreate the blocks. I had the idea last year of making a textured lap quilt for my visually impaired Aunt, I’ve finally managed to get onto it (school holidays = time to sew). I am stoked with how it has come together (11 blocks + beaded label). I am just about to quilt it. Can’t wait to surprise her with it! Thanks again!

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  26. I am sooooo bookmarking your blog. I’ve found very useful ideas and I’m glad I looked through. You are wonderfully talented. Thanks for sharing.

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  27. Teresa, I can’t begin to thank you sooooooo much for being so generous with sharing your talent with us. I’m just beginning journey and am narrowing my ‘style’ down.
    You may have noticed that I like bold from the boards that I have collected. I also appreciate work and creativity. I was particularly taken with the origami fabric tutorials that you have listed. I can see this in satin ( pink and white) interspersed with something else done in satin, perhaps a solid wedding ring template as the frame for the individual origami panels and either a circled 16 patch in pink and white or star patches (in pink and white) in the alternating circles. BUT that is all down the line for me, I have to learn my craft long before that one gets tackled.
    Thank you again and I’ll be sure to keep you posted.

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    1. Thank you Karon for your feedback and for sharing your ideas too. Satin is for sure a better fabric to use for fabric manipulation. It flows well and the sheen of the fabric improves the appearance of the manipulation. Other sheer fabrics would also work better than quilting cottons. I’ll be looking forward to seeing what you make.

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  31. I am working on an educational website and the owners wanted an article section where I put articles they indicate on the site. The articles come from news/magazine and other online article/new sources. I have been listing ?Article Taken From: (URL)? and a link to the original article. I thought that was enough, but I have heard from a friend that it isn?t. . This site is NOT yet publicly online, so I can change things to be legal before it becomes a legal problem.. . What do I need as a citation to make sure I don?t infringe on anyone?s copyright?. Do I need to do anything else other than listing a citation & link to be legal?. . Thank You all for helping!. SRGR.

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  35. Wonderful fabric manipulations!! Thanks. Your talents and imagination are unlimited. I am truly grateful for all you do.

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