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To My Terrific Customers: If you would like to see the over 1000 items I carry, please email me at sales@calicospiceshop.com or check my About Me page for more information.
I specialize in stamped linens as in pillowcases, quilt blocks, quilt tops, and tablecloths. I have a large assortment of cheater cloths, fleece panels, quilt templates, quilt stencils, all of the Electric Quilt items, and other quilting supplies. I also carry counted cross stitch patterns.
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Applique
A piecing process using small cutouts of fabric which are then sewn onto a background fabric in a decorative design. Typically intricate and curved motifs are used.
Album
A quilt made from blocks which have been signed by friends or family members of either the maker or the recipient.
Amish
Pertains to the quilts made by religious cultures of eastern Pennsylvania and the Midwest. Typical of this style are dark rich fabrics, always solids, the heavy use of black as a background, striking geometric patterns, and wide, plain borders.
Backing
The bottom or back layer of a quilt, usually a plain unadorned fabric that has been pieced to the width of the quilt.
Bargello
A style of piecework in which fabric is first sewn in horizontal strips, then cut and arranged in vertical steps to produce undulating designs.
Basting
Large stitches made to hold fabric layers or seams in place temporarily, before quilting is done. You may also use safety pins or straight pins to baste.
Batting
The layer of stuffing in the middle of the quilt. Can be cotton, polyester, or wool.
Bearding
When the batting fibers work their way through the top or bottom fabric layers of the quilt. It creates an unsightly fuzz. Most often associated with cheap polyester battings, bearding can also happen with unbonded cotton.
Betweens
small, thin needles used for finish quilting. Sizes range from 8-12, the smaller number being a longer length needle.
Bias
the diagonal of the fabric weave.
Binding
A strip of fabric sewn over the edges of the quilt layers to finish the raw edges. Can be straight or scalloped. A binding can also be a part of the backing wrapped over to the front.
Block
A square (or other regularly repeated shape) section which has been pieced into a top to make it a whole.
Border
A frame or edge made of strips of fabric surrounding the quilt blocks. Frames can be used around a center block to set it apart, or around the outer edges of a quilt as a finishing technique.
Calico
Any small repeated print design on cotton, usually a floral.
Chain sewing
To feed block pieces into the sewing machine one right after the other, without snipping threads in between each seam. This allows you to sew many pieces without stopping after each one, saving both time and thread.
Charm square
a smallish, unique patch of fabric. Often traded in quantity, allowing the swappers to develop a collection with a wide variety of prints. When made into a quilt top and called a "charm quilt" the idea is to have a scrap-pieced top with no two pieces alike.
Cheaters cloth
fabric printed with an all-over quilt block design, made to look like a pieced or appliqued quilt top.
Crazy patch
A block assembled from irregular and often scrap pieces, with no set pattern or design overall. Can be made as small blocks and assembled into a larger piece, or sewn as one complete quilt top.
Cutter
A quilt that is so badly worn or damaged in some areas as to be sold for the purpose of cutting it up into pillows, dolls, or other craft items.
Ease
To make two pieces of different sizes fit together in the same seam. On piece may have to be stretched a little, or bunched up slightly in order to get both pieces the same length.
Echo quilting
to make repeating outlines of the block pattern, radiating out from the design.
Fat quarter
One quarter of a square yard of fabric, cut to about 18x22 inches, as compared to a regular quarter-yard cut which measures 9x45 inches.
Foundation piecing
Assembling a block by sewing pieces to a foundation of muslin or plain fabric.
Friendship quilt
A quilt made by friends as a gift or rememberance to someone. The blocks may be signed, dated, or contain verses.
Grain
The direction of the fabric, along the warp and weft threads. When aligning templates "with the grain" they need to be parallel to the warp, or length of the yardage.
Lap quilting
A method of completing the finish quilting one block at a time and then assembling the finished quilt from those pre-quilted squares. Squares are quilted in small lap frames rather than large ones.
Loft
Reference to the thickness and resilience of batting. A high loft batting is thicker and fluffier than low loft batting.
Medallion
A central, usually large, block or patterned area on a quilt top, defined in some way (by space or a border).
Memory quilt
A quilt pieced from scraps of a loved one's clothing. May be made of children's outgrown baby clothes, or the clothing of a deceased relative or friend. More recently, memory quilts include transferred photographs of the loved one.
Mitered corner
corner (usually of a border) that is joined at a 45 degree angle, like a picture frame.
Muslin
A plain, undyed cotton fabric, available bleached or unbleached. A fine quality bleached muslin is used in quilting as a neutral background.
Novelty print
A fabric printed with small whimsical designs, often for a holiday or for craft use. Also called "conversation" prints. Examples are cute ghosts for Halloween or pictures of Elvis.
One-patch
Any quilt pattern that uses a single shaped patch for the pieced top. May be squares, triangles, hexagons, etc.
Orvus
brand name of a soap that is very mild and often used to clean fine washables such as quilts.
Outline quilting
To make quilting stitches which follow the outline of your pieces or applique design, usually at 1/4 or 1/2 an inch from the edge of the seam.
Paper piecing
To use paper templates with the fabric basted onto the paper shape in order to retain accurate piecing. Fabric is folded over the edge of the paper shape, basted into place, and the edges of adjoining pieces whipstitched together by hand. This is typically used when making the hexagonal Grandmother's Flower Garden pattern.
Piecing
To assemble quilt blocks from pieces of fabric sewn along their edges to form a whole.
Pin baste
To use saftey pins or straight pins to temporarily hold togther the three layers of a quilt in preparation for finish quilting.
Quilting
The process of making a quilt, specifically, the stitching of patterns into the quilt layers to add strength and decoration to the quilt.
Reverse applique
Designs made by sewing on a patch to the underside of the block and then cutting away and turning under the edge of the top fabric.
Rotary cutter
Looks like a pizza cutter but with a rolling razor wheel. The new version of scissors to be used with a special mat designed for it and a variety of clear rulers and templates to speed the fabric cutting process.
Sampler
A quilt made of all different block patterns, usually as an exercise by the maker in piecing techniques.
Sashing
Strips of fabric sewn between pieced blocks to separate them while joining them together into a top. Can also act as borders.
Scrap quilt
Any quilt made with leftover fabrics from other projects, or from salvaged fabric from clothing or other items.
Selvages
The warp (long) edges of the fabric, finished and usually thicker than the rest of the fabric. Cut off when being pieced into a quilt.
Seminole piecing
A method of cutting joined strips of fabric into sections and re-piecing them with either plain contrasting fabric strips in between, or in staggered rows similar to checkerboarding. Adapted from the bright patchwork of the Seminole Indians this technique is often used in borders.
Setting
The arrangement of completed blocks forming the quilt top. Blocks can be set side by side, or on point, like diamonds, with or without sashing. Arrangements can also vary with certain asymmetrical block patterns.
Sharps
Small, thin needles used for piecing and doing applique. They have a really sharp point that is better for joining pieces than for quilting.
Stash
A supply of fabric and notions used for quilting (and other sewing projects). Usually squirrelled away in every conceivable nook and cranny in the house, garage, neighbor's attic, etc. :)
Stippling
Quilting stitches, when done by hand they can consist of closely spaced tacking stitches, when done by machine the pattern is of closely spaced squiggly lines. Both patterns are used to fill background space.
Stitch in the ditch
A method of quilting where you sew your stitches in the "ditch" created by the joins of the pattern pieces. Your quilting pattern will be that of your block pattern.
Strip piecing
A time-saving method of cutting strips of fabric instead of individual shapes, and piecing the strips before cutting adjoining smaller block pieces from it.
Template
A cardboard, plastic, or acrylic shape used as a pattern for tracing either piecing or applique patches, or for tracing lines to be quilted.
Trapunto
A dimensional design created by parallel outlining stitches that are then stuffed with batting.
Tying
A traditional method of securing the quilt layers with knotted ties at intervals across the quilt.
Wall quilt
A smallish quilted piece designed and constructed to be hung on the wall for decoration. Can contain specialty fabrics and embellishments that are not meant to be washed or undergo strain or wear.
Watercolor quilt
A technique where you use 2" squares of floral fabrics to color a quilt pattern in the style of an impressionist painting. Also called colorwash quilting.
White work
A quilt where the entire design is in the quilting stitches, there is no patchwork on the top. Usually made up in solid white fabric as a display of the quilter's stitching skills.
Whole cloth quilt
A quilt where the top is made from one single, large, piece of fabric. | |
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