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Tuesday Tutorial–The Picot-Edged Ribbon

July 9, 2013

Picot-Edged Ribbon

Good morning Quilters!  I hope you had time to quilt over the long holiday weekend.  Remember, even if you can’t get to your sewing machine, practice the patterns and motifs on paper!  It is very important to doodle the designs on paper before you get to your sewing machine.  Knowing the pattern helps keep your stitches even–no hesitations!

Today we are stitching the Picot Edge.  We will leave a space between the right and left picot edges for you to fill in your favorite motif and make a ribbon.

This pattern is stitched in one pass for each side of the ribbon.  As usual, we will begin by drawing “rails”–just to keep our stitching straight.  The lines are 1/2 inch apart for the picot edging, with 1 inch in the middle for our ribbon.

We will stitch this pattern starting at the bottom and moving up…

Begin on the left line and stitch a curve…like the right side of a heart…

Picot-Edged Ribbon

Stitch a complete circle and stop at your curved line…

Picot-Edged Ribbon

Reverse direction and stitch back to the starting point…

Picot-Edged Ribbon

When you have stitched back to the starting point, stitch up the drawn “rail” and past your first motif.

Picot-Edged Ribbon

From this point, stitch the next motif…

Picot-Edged Ribbon

The left side is completed the same way–in mirror image…

Start at the bottom again and work up the line…

Picot-Edged Ribbon

Picot-Edged Ribbon

When you have stitched both sides with  the one inch space in between, it will look like this:

Picot-Edged Ribbon

Now fill in the space with your choice of patterns (see the Quilts/Tutorials Tab above)…

Picot-Edged Ribbon

Picot-Edged Ribbon

You could also use one side of this pattern around the border of a quilt.  Try filling in the space with your handwriting or a message to personalize your quilt.  (Read more about that HERE.)

Picot-Edged Ribbon

Later this month, we will make a sweet flower border with a variation of this pattern.  Next week we will be working on Mansions—they take a long time to build, but we will embellish our starter house (see tutorial HERE) with a few windows and doors…

Please Pin and Re-blog with attribution to The Inbox Jaunt.  All photos and tutorials are for private use only.  For any commercial use, please contact me.

Happy Quilting and Happy Doodling!

Lori

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8 responses to “Tuesday Tutorial–The Picot-Edged Ribbon”

  1. Queenie says:
    July 9, 2013 at 12:32 pm

    This is a lovely quilting pattern.
    Have a great day.
    Always, Queenie

    1. theinboxjaunt says:
      July 10, 2013 at 10:20 am

      Thanks, Queenie!

  2. Amie Tarpley says:
    July 9, 2013 at 12:40 pm

    Awesome! Love it, Amie :0)

    1. theinboxjaunt says:
      July 10, 2013 at 10:20 am

      Thanks! Hope you will give it a try!

  3. Jane says:
    July 9, 2013 at 3:47 pm

    Lovely and crisp.

    1. theinboxjaunt says:
      July 10, 2013 at 10:20 am

      Thanks!

  4. Patti Kaplan says:
    July 9, 2013 at 5:51 pm

    Very nice. Off to try it.

    1. theinboxjaunt says:
      July 10, 2013 at 10:21 am

      Glad to hear you have some free time, Patti! Let me know how it works out!

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