Do you want to sew faster with more accuracy
Well we are going to take masking tape out of our tool box and bring it into our sewing room
For five fast and easy sewing hacks
So stick with me and I'll show you how to do it
Masking tape comes in a variety of colors
and with so with all these techniques experiment
and choose which one works best for you
The first one is the sewing ledge.
I don't know about you but when I'm sewing a straight seam that's longer than two inches
my brain has moved on to the next step
and I can look down and my sewing seams have gone wonky
I'm sure you've seen marking your sewing line before
but this is different
This is a ledge and let me show you how to do it.
So what you're going to do is you're going to make
you're gonna make three to five masking tape pieces
stack them on top of each other and align the left side
you place it on your sewing line
the sewing line for quilters is a 1/4"
you can use this technique when you're you're sewing other things too
Having this ledge here helps me focus to guide my fabrics evenly along the ledge to get a straight seam
And here you go a nice straight edge.
There is a 1/4"
1/4"
and 1/4"
Have you ever been in HST hell.
I have. This is when you have a bazillion and 1/2 square triangles that you need to trim up
Nothing can slow down your sewing fun faster
Take your ruler . Flip it over.
over now take some masking tape and lay it down on that 45 degree mark now make
a Ledge similar to the previous example
trim up your corners flip it back over now
Take your HST block. Push your ruler up against the seem. It kind of
locks in. Trim your first corner. Now spin your block and trim the other. If your
HST needs to be smaller than your ruler then just slide it down the ledge.
I love these rulers from creative grids. and on this line the white lines are at the 1
inch increment on this both side they're on the 1/2 inch increment but I can't
tell you how many times I have cut on the wrong lines because I've gotten
distracted so this is a real easy one just put a piece of tape on the line
that you're supposed to be cutting on it's fast quick and cheap what better
kinda tip is there sometimes when you're cutting you have alignment points within
your block you want to hit every single time in this block I want them to go
through the 45 through these two corners and I use this tape to help me hit them
every single time I put it on here I can trim it up and I just grab my next block
I don't need to fuss or anything my eye just tells me where I should be
sometimes when you're quilting marking the quilting lines can be so tedious and
boring this is a fast easy way to do that dot dot quilting simply cut or tear
a piece of tape the length of the line you will be quilting the great thing
about this is you can use the same tape over and over again and lastly I'll
often newsmagazine tape just to pull down either my blocks or my bolt as I'm
trying to square up and I just hang it up on the wall and i layer my back
guiding and my fabrics there
so I hope you can use these side trips when the last things it's white masking
tape it's really good when you're I would have a cook guild or on a retreat
or something just to make a quick fast easy nametag or to make nametags to mark
your equipment everybody has a lot of tools that are the same so you'll know
which ones are yours if you've got some other use for masking tape please leave
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