If you’d like to express your preference and participate in my quilters’ poll, scroll down the page to the poll on the right. There you can tell me whether you like to do hand quilting over hand quilting. Do you prefer both depending on the project? Or do you like to tie your quilts to finish them?
I’ve done […]
Quilted and appliqued Christmas ornaments add color and interest to your tree and your home during the holiday season. You may want to make these yourself or find them at craft and Christmas shops.
Cathy, at the Tangled Thread blog (www.tangledthread.com) features a number of Christmas ornaments you may want to make. These include: a Yo-Yo […]
Blogging has become one of the newer methods of promotion, whether you’re involved in your fiber art/quilting as a business or simply want to become better known in this field. Many fiber artists operate a personal blog, as my daughter does, relating her latest projects and how they interact with her family life.
Others use the […]
Cyndi Lavin collects old fabrics, something I discussed in a previous post. So I asked Cyndi what she did with these old fabrics and found she has some interesting ways to utilize them, whether in quilts or mixed media art work.
Cyndi also writes a b5media blog about multi media art, Layers Upon Layers (www.layersuponlayers.com) She says […]
After finding Penny Halgren’s pin and thread basting tips, I discovered a newsletter I’d received awhile ago from Konstantin’s Quilted Paradise. There you’ll also find information about pin basting and thread basting and the types of materials to use for each.
These are such simple techniques that experienced quilters often don’t remember their early quandry or realize […]
One of my readers mentioned she’s attempting to make a baby blanket for her niece from a pre-printed panel. She wants to hand stitch the design.
Do I put the top, batting and back together, then do the hand stitching through all three layers. Or do I just stitch the top layer, then put it together?
Then […]
I mentioned in a previous post that my daughter, Beth, often paints and dyes fabric and described a day recently when I came home to find her fabric squares drying around the house and on the deck. (Daughter, son-in-law and two grandchildren live with Jim and me in our multi-generational home. So I’m often involved in […]
The Touch Quilt, at the Alzheimer’s Store (http://alzstore.com/ ) gave me ideas for quilts we can design for family members or friends stricken with this disease. If we don’t have time to make the quilt, we can always purchase one and then create more as needed.
However, they appear very easy to design and make with […]
As long as you’re not planning something intricate, involved, and time consuming, you still have time to make gifts and decorations for Christmas. As I glance around the various online stores, I find ideas that don’t take much time.
Look around for fabric printed with Christmas and holiday designs. You can use these to make pillows, […]
A quilter remarked to me, as she looked at before and after (quilting) photos of a quillt, “I think there’s too much quilting in this one. It takes away from the design of the quilt blocks.”
I’d never thought of that, but realized I had to agree in this case. The quilt consisted of an intriguing design […]
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