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Historical Quilt Patterns: What’s Old is New

May 3, 2018 By Lisa Berentsen

“What goes around comes around” is the basic understanding of how karma, the spiritual law of cause and effect, works. The word “karma” literally means activity. My favorite activity is quilting, so when something in quilting comes around again, it’s all good, especially when looking at historical quilt patterns.

Quilters are constantly creating new twists on traditional techniques and designs. Simply changing the scale or applying new fabrics to a block can result in remarkable new quilts.

QT Traditional Quilt Blocks

In the spirit of “what goes around, comes around,” Quilter’s Thread is revisiting some historical quilt blocks and giving you instructions and some ideas to launch you on a creative journey to bring the past into your future….

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Quilters: Find Your True Quarter Inch Seam

April 23, 2018 By Lisa Berentsen

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.

Quilt Design Process: Watching a Quilt Grow Up

April 11, 2018 By Lisa Berentsen

The quilt design process

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.)…

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How to Tell if Your Thread is Still Good

April 9, 2018 By Lisa Berentsen

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.

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