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Finding space for your quilting and sewing is a challenge for many of us. For instance, in our multi-generational household, my daughter has one side of the living room for sewing machine, cabinets and bookcases, along with cutting table. When she does her dyeing, it’s at the kitchen sink and counter, or in the bathtub.
Some […]
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Using the correct tools for a job usually makes it go faster and seem easier. Finding the quilting tools that help you is important.
At Quilted Paradise, you’ll find a really good list of suggested quilting tools with the where’s and when’s of using them. This is great information for the beginning quilter, as well as […]
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After reading my dream list of quilting gadgets viewers to Quilting and Patchwork responded with their own.
*A self-healing cutting mat because Eileen’s is old and all gouged up.
*Noreen especially likes the dream of more storage
*Cyndi and Noreen thought one of each I mentioned would be great.
Another I’ve come across:
*We find particularly this one especially handy for cramped […]
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New gadgets, or those you haven’t tried, aid in making quilting easier. I’ve been amazed at all the items now available that weren’t when I began quilting as a business during the Bicentennial years of 1975-76. A friend remarked today that she almost had to begin learning anew when she came back to quilting after […]
Expansion of Jo-Ann Fabric and Craft Stores’ offerings includes the assistance of well-known quilter M’Liss Rae Hawley.
Jo-Ann Fabric and Craft Stores, the leading national fabric and craft specialty retailer, has enlisted the expertise of M’Liss Rae Hawley, the internationally known leader in the field of quilting, to expand class and fabric offerings for quilters nationwide, […]
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The buzz words, “environmentally friendly” have found their way into the quilting/fabric arts arena with “green” batting, as described at Checker Newsletter. Jenny Stratton has researched and written a 3-part series about these products in the quilting world particularly involving batting.
The buzz work lately has been “GREEN”. Everywhere I turn I find an article about being gentler […]
I never realized there was so much to learn about needles and thread until I began to read the Superior Threads newsletter and browse around the site. Thread was thread…perhaps with a few variations…for a long time for me.
Then I began to realize different threads gave various effects and some lasted longer than others. The needles […]
Other than our sewing machine, often a computerized one that almost can do everything on its own, we usually don’t think about caring for the other tools that help us create our quilts and fabric art. Also, there often are proper ways to use them so they last longer.
For instance, at the Quilted Paradise, you’ll […]
Josh Johnson’s post, Button, Button, Who’s Got the Button?, at Junk Creation, got me thinking about button storage over the years. Josh shows a picture of the jar his wife uses for her buttons. Quilters have long been collectors of buttons, left over from times ago when every button was precious and useful for replacing lost […]
Chloe at Tangled Thread has discovered another neat idea…a bobbin winder, Sidewinder bobbin winder from Wrights. This enables you to wind your bobbin without taking the thread from the machine.
Also, if you order it, using the code Chloe provides, you’ll receive a discount. What more could you ask for? Time saving gadget and a discount.
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