Karen Kay Buckley

For those of you who have taken classes with me you know I often use this product as a placement guide. I place the Pattern Ease over my paper pattern and trace the design onto the Pattern Ease.  Next, I center the Pattern Ease over my background fabric and baste it along one edge.  When I am ready to position my applique pieces I an slide them under the Pattern Ease, pin them in place and proceed to applique.  I use this for placement guide for both hand and machine applique.  Price per yard.

A friend shared this little travel light with me and I then went right out and got one for myself.  This light has 6 led blubs, is light weight, is worn around your neck, uses 4 AA batteries (which you'll need to purchase if you don't already have them in your house) and has an adjustable hinge so you can adjust the light right where you need it.  I found it to be excellent when I want to sew while in a hotel room where there is never enough light for hand sewing.  This would be great to carry along to classes since it is small and light in weight, as long as you don't shine the light in the teachers face!!!!

Click on the magnifier to the right of the photo to see how it works. 

This tool created by Susan K. Cleveland is wonderful if you are adding piping to your seams.  Using this acrylic tool helps trim piping seam allowances to ¼” or ½” with great accuracy and makes working with piping easier.  Over the years I have worked with a ruler to do this trimming and I must admit this new tool Susan created makes the job easier and much more accurate.  Package includes detailed directions along with the acrylic trimming tool and 5 yards of 1mm cording.

100 yards of 1mm piping cording for use with the Piping Hot Binding tool. 

Susan has added this new tool to her collection.  This size allows for thicker cording, which I love.  You can use a cording up to 3/16" in diameter.  With the detailed directions you will have beautiful and accurately and evenly cut seams of either 1/4" or 1/2".  If you liked the first of these tools you'll love the grande.  In addition to using this for cording on your quilts just think of all the other uses...pillows, handbags, draperies.............. 

 In addition to using this tool to make binding for your quilts another excellent use is for stems.  The way the bias maker folds the strips of fabric all you need to do is applique the edge.  Because of the way the raw edges are folded the strips are easy to sew by hand or by machine. This works well for both bias and grain strips.

In addition to using this tool to make binding for your quilts another excellent use is for stems.  The way the bias maker folds the strips of fabric all you need to do is applique the edge.  Because of the way the raw edges are folded the strips are easy to sew by hand or by machine. This works well for both bias and grain strips.

 * This size is used for the stems in Midnight Floral Fantasy.

In addition to using this tool to make binding for your quilts another excellent use is for stems.  The way the bias maker folds the strips of fabric all you need to do is applique the edge.  Because of the way the raw edges are folded the strips are easy to sew by hand or by machine. This works well for both bias and grain strips.

 * This size is used for the stems in Midnight Floral Fantasy.

8 1/2" x 11" piece of heat resistant plastic. I use this for my favorite applique technique.  It works great with an iron on a medium heat setting.  It marks easily with a pencil to trace your applique shapes.  Used for both hand and machine applique techniques.  

I sometimes use soutache, a trim, for the skinny stems on my appliqué.  It is so easy to use.  You simply sew down the center groove with a running stitch to hold it in place.  It is one of the recommended items in my pattern “Around the Garden” and my newest pattern "Japanese Garden Quilt".

Price per yard - please order in full yards

I sometimes use soutache, a trim, for the skinny stems on my appliqué.  It is so easy to use.  You simply sew down the center groove with a running stitch to hold it in place.  It is one of the recommended items in my pattern “Around the Garden” and my newest pattern "Japanese Garden Quilt".

Price per yard - please order in full yards

I sometimes use soutache, a trim, for the skinny stems on my appliqué.  It is so easy to use.  You simply sew down the center groove with a running stitch to hold it in place.  It is one of the recommended items in my pattern “Around the Garden” and my newest pattern "Japanese Garden Quilt".

Price per yard - please order in full yards

I sometimes use soutache, a trim, for the skinny stems on my appliqué.  It is so easy to use.  You simply sew down the center groove with a running stitch to hold it in place.  It is one of the recommended items in my pattern “Around the Garden” and my newest pattern "Japanese Garden Quilt".

Price per yard - please order in full yards

I sometimes use soutache, a trim, for the skinny stems on my appliqué.  It is so easy to use.  You simply sew down the center groove with a running stitch to hold it in place.  It is one of the recommended items in my pattern “Around the Garden”.  I used 3/16" in the "Japanese Garden Quilt" pattern.

Price per yard - please order in full yards

I sometimes use soutache, a trim, for the skinny stems on my appliqué.  It is so easy to use.  You simply sew down the center groove with a running stitch to hold it in place.  It is one of the recommended items in my pattern “Around the Garden”.  I used 3/16" in the "Japanese Garden Quilt" pattern. 

Price per yard - please order in full yards

I sometimes use soutache, a trim, for the skinny stems on my appliqué.  It is so easy to use.  You simply sew down the center groove with a running stitch to hold it in place.  It is one of the recommended items in my pattern “Around the Garden”. I used 3/16" in the "Japanese Garden Quilt" pattern.

Price per yard - please order in full yards

I sometimes use soutache, a trim, for the skinny stems on my appliqué.  It is so easy to use.  You simply sew down the center groove with a running stitch to hold it in place.  It is one of the recommended items in my pattern “Around the Garden”. I used 3/16" in the "Japanese Garden Quilt" pattern.

Price per yard - please order in full yards

I sometimes use soutache, a trim, for the skinny stems on my appliqué.  It is so easy to use.  You simply sew down the center groove with a running stitch to hold it in place.  It is one of the recommended items in my pattern “Around the Garden”.  I used 3/16" in the "Japanese Garden Quilt" pattern.

Price per yard - please order in full yards

I sometimes use soutache, a trim, for the skinny stems on my applique.  You simply sew down the center groove with a running stitch to hold it in place.  It is one of the recommended items in my patterns "Around the Garden" and "Japanese Garden Quilt".

Price per yard.  Please order in full yards.

I sometimes use soutache, a trim, for the skinny stems on my applique.  You simply sew down the center groove with a running stitch to hold it in place.  It is one of the recommended items in my patterns "Around the Garden" and "Japanese Garden Quilt".

Price per yard.  Please order in full yards.

I sometimes use soutache, a trim, for the skinny stems on my applique.  You simply sew down the center groove with a running stitch to hold it in place.  It is one of the recommended items in my patterns "Around the Garden" and "Japanese Garden Quilt".

Price per yard.  Please order in full yards.

I sometimes use soutache, a trim, for the skinny stems on my applique.  You simply sew down the center groove with a running stitch to hold it in place.  It is one of the recommended items in my patterns "Around the Garden" and "Japanese Garden Quilt".

Price per yard.  Please order in full yards.

I sometimes use soutache, a trim, for the skinny stems on my applique.  You simply sew down the center groove with a running stitch to hold it in place.  It is one of the recommended items in my patterns "Around the Garden" and "Japanese Garden Quilt".

Price per yard.  Please order in full yards.

I sometimes use soutache, a trim, for the skinny stems on my appliqué.  It is so easy to use.  You simply sew down the center groove with a running stitch to hold it in place.  It is one of the recommended items in my pattern “Around the Garden”.  I used 3/16" in the "Japanese Garden Quilt" pattern.

Price per yard - please order in full yards

I sometimes use soutache, a trim, for the skinny stems on my appliqué.  It is so easy to use.  You simply sew down the center groove with a running stitch to hold it in place.  It is one of the recommended items in my pattern “Around the Garden”.  I used 3/16" in the "Japanese Garden Quilt" pattern.

Price per yard - please order in full yards

I sometimes use soutache, a trim, for the skinny stems on my appliqué.  It is so easy to use.  You simply sew down the center groove with a running stitch to hold it in place.  It is one of the recommended items in my pattern “Around the Garden”.  I used 3/16" in the "Japanese Garden Quilt" pattern.

Price per yard - please order in full yards

I sometimes use soutache, a trim, for the skinny stems on my appliqué.  It is so easy to use.  You simply sew down the center groove with a running stitch to hold it in place.  It is one of the recommended items in my pattern “Around the Garden”.  I used 3/16" in the "Japanese Garden Quilt" pattern.

Price per yard - please order in full yards