Texas Braids, All Day Long!

Texas Braids, All Day Long!

When students arrive with everything already cut out and ready to go, progress happens quickly! The pattern for Texas Braid is found in my b... tháng 1 05, 2014

When students arrive with everything already cut out and ready to go, progress happens quickly!

The pattern for Texas Braid is found in my book Adventures with Leaders & Enders.  Signed copies can be ordered HERE.

Braid seams are normally SHORT seams, so it’s a lot of stitching a bit, taking it out of the machine, clipping threads, pressing and starting again – and that can mean a whole mess of thread trimmings and mess.

So we keep it a bit more continuous by working with two braid sections at one time, using each as the Leader and/or Ender for the other.  Braids grow quickly this way and there is no thread waste or long tangled lines of chain piecing to deal with.  Two in the chain is sufficient for rapid progress!

A whole lot of easy sewing with a lot to show for it!

When braids start getting too long to sew with easily, simply roll the bottom end up and pin it – and keep on keeping on!

More fun in our slide show below!

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Texas Braid, McKinney, TX 2014

This is a bit more of a leisurely morning for me.  After 6 straight days of up at 6am, Today is a half day workshop and doesn't start until 2pm!  Slept in a bit, and planning on a nice brunch out with the Hubster before he drops me off for class.We've been gone from home a long time.  Tomorrow we leave Texas -- he heads back to North Carolina, and I am headed to Phoenix to go hug on my brother for a couple days.Remember that tomorrow is our Mystery Monday Link-Up!  Lots of photos of tops in progress are being shared on the Quiltville Friends Facebook page.  You don't need a Facebook account to read the posts, just click the link below to see the Show & Share progress!  And I definitely can't wait to see what is shared in the Link-Up tomorrow.Have a wonderful Sunday, Everyone!
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