Hi ,

What a week! We've learned a cool new design and gotten started with an excellent technique called Foundation Piecing + Applique!

If you've been following along since last week, we've started a new version of Express Your Love that is all about piecing. We've already pieced many log cabin blocks, then combined them all together into this beautiful background:

Today we learned how to prepare a fabric foundation that will allow us to piece scraps together to form those pretty hair sections. Click here to learn more about Foundation Piecing + Applique so you can follow along as we learn this cool technique.

The design we learned this week is Little Tongues, though many quilters have written in with other suggestions from Ladyfinger cookies to little rainbows:

It's always fun coming up with new textures like this because how you stitch it really can create an entirely different design. In the video I showed how to expand a single Little Tongue shape until it was quite large and how this changed the entire design.

I also made a mistake in the middle of quilting this little square, but was luckily able to work my way around it. Rather than turn the camera off, I included this bit too so hopefully you can learn from my mistake! Definitely check out the video to learn how to quilt Little Tongues today.

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Each design is showcased with a high quality photo or illustration and instructions on how to quilt the design in your quilts.

All of the designs in the book are organized by their design family and color coded so it's easy to flip through the book and find the designs you like quickly.

Best of all, this little book is spiral bound so it will lay flat on your table, or you can fold it over so it fits perfectly next to your sewing machine!

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Let's go quilt,

Leah Day