Inside Nancy Mahoney's Secrets to Quilting Success

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In the 6-lesson online workshop, Nancy Mahoney’s Secrets to Quilting Success, Nancy Mahoney – Author, teacher and fabric designer – walks you through the fusible appliqué quilting process, shows you how to use machine appliqué on your quilts for a beautiful finish every time.

Nancy also shows various quilts, each with their own unique look, achieved by using this one simple technique. Nancy will also show you how to master a Feathered Star Block. Using her technique, you will learn to get the most squares from your strips and why keeping the straight of grain is so important.

She will show you how to create the Sunburst block in her friendly and knowledgeable style and shows you how to create sharp points and unusual angles the easy way by quilting with foundation piecing.

Plus, you’ll get three of Nancy’s quilt patterns included with the workshop!!!!

Nancy’s Berry Wreath quilt pattern in one of three patterns included in the workshop.

You’ll love this workshop if you:

Want to learn more about fusible web and appliqué work
Enjoy creating gifts for others or for your own home
Like quilting using a pattern
Want to make a more challenging block
Are bored with simple strip piecing
Are looking to improve your block making skills
Want to recreate a stunning vintage block
Enjoy working with small pieces
Want to try hand-appliqué
Want to learn more about Tri-Recs rulers
Enjoy learning lots of new ideas
Want great accuracy in piecing

One of Nancy’s favorite quilt patterns, Florentine Tiles, is included in the workshop.

Techniques Demonstrated in this video:

Fusible appliqué
Measuring
Cutting
Pressing
Sewing
Cutting and piecing small blocks accurately
Creative way to piece Y-seams
Easy method for needle-turned appliqué
Accurate cutting and piecing
Using seam-allowances for more precise units
Two methods to make hour-glass blocks

The Summer Heat quilt pattern is also included in the workshop.

This video is just a taste of what you can expect in the workshop. In under five minutes, Nancy shares tips on choosing, tracing and cutting fusible.

Video Transcription:

Mary Kate Karr-Petras:

Nancy is going to teach us today, not just one, but two ways to use fusible, applicate products, one that uses a paper backing and another that does not use a paper backing. So let’s talk first about this quilt that we have laid out here on the table.

Nancy Mahoney:

This quilt is garden time.

Mary Kate Karr-Petras:

It’s beautiful.

Nancy Mahoney

Thank you.

Mary Kate Karr-Petras:

Love it.

Nancy Mahoney

Well, I really liked this quilt and I like to do different types of application and the product I use depends on the project that I’m working on and how big the pieces are. And quite frankly, how much time I have, because a lot of times I want to save time on Tracing. But since this was just one block, I went ahead and use the product that has a paper on the feasible itself. Now there’s different types of paper fusible products, some of them have paper on one side and some have paper on both sides. The product I choose for this one is the Steam A Seam 2, because it has a sticky back that’s on both sides. And that allows me to temporarily position a pieces and they won’t fall off. And that’s important with this quilt because I want to position the things, the different shapes on top of each other.

Mary Kate Karr-Petras:

Right? Okay.

Nancy Mahoney

So we have to start off by tracing that. And the first thing we want to do is make sure that we’re tracing on the correct piece of paper. One piece of paper will release easier than the other one, and we don’t want trace on that. I think for myself, and it’s an unhappy thing to have happened. So you just peel back a corner and make sure that the side can tell just by feeling it that it’s going to be sticking. It’s going to be rough. That’s the side you want to trace on.

Nancy Mahoney

So I’ve already traced everything, but I’m going to show you the way I did it. And it’s just, I use the pattern that comes with the quilt, laid my product on top of it. And then for the water and canvas, which has these nice straight lines, I just use a straight ruler.

Mary Kate Karr-Petras:

Okay.

Nancy Mahoney

I also use a Sharpie marker. You can use a pencil, but a pencil will tend to smear and a Sharpie marker will give you a nice line, need to let it dry a little bit, but then it won’t smear. It’s a permanent marker. So you’re just going to move the pieces around and trace them. As you can see, I trace some inside.

Mary Kate Karr-Petras:

I can’t really be an economical use of the fusible.

Nancy Mahoney

I want to make the best use of my product. And so I just move this around and just trace inside my can making sure I leave at least a quarter inch, because I’m going to cut the inside of this out.

Mary Kate Karr-Petras:

Okay.

Nancy Mahoney

And I’m going to use what is often called a window method. And to do that, I have just take a pair of scissors and these scissors are from Havel. They’re designed to use with fusible products. They will not stick. The fusil product will not stick to them because as I have a Teflon coating on them,

Mary Kate Karr-Petras:

That’s a really nice feature.

Nancy Mahoney

They’re also have a little serrated edge on them. So you get a nice sharp cut. So I just really want to rough cut things out to begin with making sure I cut outside the line. And the other thing I want to point out as you notice, I grouped my, my different shapes. So I have all my flowers grouped together and all my leaves grouped together. And then I just fit in my circles wherever they would fit. One other point is that if you find it hard to trace these little circles, because those are pretty small, very small. Yeah. You can get, just go to your office, supply place and get a template that has these different sizes of circles determine, which is the right size.

Mary Kate Karr-Petras:

This one is a pretty standard size.

Nancy Mahoney

They come in standard sizes and then you can use that. We know this is a half inch, and then you can trace it around on the insight method a lot easier, often the tracing on the outside. Okay. So to cut this out, I’m just going to fold it in half line at my line and I’m going to make the initial cut.
Let me open it out. And it’s just really, I’m just cutting. I want to make sure I have a quarter inch or so maybe three-sixteenths on the inside of the line as well as the outside his line.

And I would go back and do that with all of the pieces that are big enough, do it with all the little, the leaves, the band. I would not do that with this piece, which is the handle because there’s nothing really to cut out. Right.

Nancy Mahoney’s Secrets to Quilting Success starts on 11/13/2020 and goes through 12/11/2020. Register today!