For your best quilting results, finding a correct and consistent quarter inch seam is essential. In this video blog, Lisa tells you why you should and how to do it.
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Quilt Design Process: Watching a Quilt Grow Up
There is no single blueprint for the quilt design process. What a quilter sees inevitably drives the process. Since every quilter sees things his/her own way, the process is individual to each quilter. Sometimes I’m driven by a certain block design and choose the fabrics later in the process. Our Bring Your Own Color series is being developed this way. However, sometimes the fabric drives my creative process. This post describes how a stack of fat quarters grew into our new pattern: Cape Cod Crazy. (You can find the pattern in our store.)…
How to Tell if Your Thread is Still Good
You’re putting a lot of time and fabric into your quilts, you need to put good thread into it, too. Not all thread is the same, and many are surprised to learn that thread can go bad over time. Today we’ll show you how to determine if your thread is good.
How Much Should we Spend on Quilting Fabric?
I remember when we used to sew to save money.
In the beginning, there were flour bags, old clothing and scraps from new clothes. These made up the quilting fabric. Remember the labyrinthine crazy quilts of the Victorian era, and the flour sack quilts that started popping up in the 1920’s? Frugal has been part of quilt making since the beginning, but, with the cost of fabric today, can we be frugal quilters? Importantly, should we be frugal quilters?…
Have a beautiful (quilted) Easter!
Easter has become much more hectic as my family has grown. I had no problems when I was the Mom, but as Grandma, I’m not as efficient. My efforts were adequate when I had three grandchildren, but with almost seven, I’m struggling to keep up.
There’s still time for quilted Easter gifts
Here’s my plan…the newbies get a quilted Easter basket, the pattern is available in the Quilter’s Thread Store. We’re not completely built, so, for a short time, you can get it for free. The pattern gives the estimated time to complete as 1 1/2 to 2 hours, but I’ve made them in an hour, and three in two hours….