Posts Tagged ‘quick tips’
Tips & Tricks: Packing & Shipping Ornaments
When you’re making a lot of ornaments, you’ll often find yourself needing to ship them out to others, whether as a gift, or if you’re selling them to paying customers. Since many of our OG Team members are remote, we find ourselves shipping ornaments back and forth quite a bit. One of our OG Designers, Darlene, came…
Read More‘Braided Band’ Ornament Finishing Tutorial – No Sew!
I have a brand new way to finish your ornaments and I can’t wait to share it with you! This elegant, woven band is a stunning way to complete your ornament, giving them a beautiful, intricate finish. In this video, I’ll show you how to make the Braided Band. This band works for any shape…
Read MoreGet Perfect Points in your No Sew Quilted Ornaments
In this video, you’ll learn a few tips for getting those PERFECT POINTS in your Quilted Ornaments. Want to learn to make one of these ornaments step by step? Watch my Perfect Quilted Ornaments Workshop! Learn the entire pattern, step by step: The Perfect Quilted Star Workshop
Read MoreTips & Tricks: Keepsake Ornaments from a Wedding Dress
The other day one of our Ornament Girls Club Members posted the most amazing idea in our private Facebook Group. She makes custom ornaments for clients, and made a very special keepsake for one of them… the ornaments above, made from her clients’ mothers’ old wedding dress. You could do this with any number of ornament…
Read MoreTips & Tricks: When your center image is too large.
Have you ever tried to make an ornament showcasing a special picture or motif, but then found that the image was too large to fit? It’s happened to the best of us! When the image is too large, it can cause your fabric to bunch, crinkle up on the ball, and pretty much be a…
Read MoreTips & Tricks: Make Mini Umbrella Ornaments
It’s #TuesdayTip time! I’m so excited to share with you this video from our ornament designer, Monica, where she shows how to create these adorable little umbrella ornaments using various ornament patterns. (April showers… wedding showers… baby showers?) Click HERE to watch it. (opens in new tab) Happy Ornament-ing! Staci Ann
Read MoreTips & Tricks: Working with Stripes
Stripes tend to look best when you make sure the stripes are running lengthwise through your fabric pieces when you cut them… that way they end up running outward from the center of your finished ornament (instead of going in all different directions and wonky-looking.) Of course, there are always exceptions to every rule. ;) Happy…
Read MoreTips & Tricks: Use scrap fabric for Quilted Easter Eggs
What I love most about making quilted Easter Egg ornaments, is that you can mix and match all sorts of colors and textures… in fact, the more colors & patterns, the better! They are a GREAT way to use up scraps, remnants, and fat quarters. An easy idea to get started with? Just begin at…
Read MoreTips & Tricks: Using Fabric with Words
It can seem tricky to use fabric that has words on it in making quilted ornaments. Since the fabric for most patterns is usually cut into small pieces, and then folded into even smaller pieces, it can seem like the words wouldn’t even be readable in the finished ornament. There are a couple of things…
Read MoreTips & Tricks: Hide Foam with Bead Caps
Ever have holes or gaps in the very center of an ornament, where some stubborn foam insists on showing itself? (#NoShame – it happens to all of us!) One cute way to hide this (and this is just ONE way… I’ll send even more in future emails).. is to simply pin on a bead cap,…
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