Check This Out and Then Try it Out!
Alex was surprised and impressed by these great new products at Spring Quilt Market in Portland, Oregon. Their booth was jammed. These were some of the hottest products at Market. Accurate, pinless piecing is now possible. Take a look at the video and then go to the Shop and get the starter kit and try it out. Quantities of this starter kit are limited.
The Acorn Easy Precision Piecing Starter Kit
When Alex saw how these Acorn Precision Piecing Products work, she was in love! These products are designed to give you ultimate control in assembling your quilt blocks and appliqué pieces, making everything go together more easily and precisely.
We brought in this starter kit to give you a chance to try the Acorn Precision Piecing Products for yourself. Each kit includes:
1 oz of Seam Align Glue in a squeeze bottle with a precision applicator
This is used in place of pinning for a more secure "slip-free" hold when assembling your blocks or applying applique pieces. The applicator makes the glue easy and neat to apply, and once you have applied it and stuck your fabrics together, you press it to dry it, so there is no lag while you wait for it to dry.
4 oz of Easy Press Solution, and an applicator pen to apply the Easy Press Solution
After you have stitched and pressed your seam, you use the applicator pen to apply the Easy Press solution *just* to the seam area of your block and press again. This makes the seam lie absolutely flat, and because you are applying the solution to just the seam area, your block won't get distorted like it can when using starch on the entire block.
I don't see using it for seams like the first one shown here, with just two pieces of fabric side by side, but it might be useful when putting two blocks together to get them to match up, like in the 9 patch block shown at the end of the video.
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