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Alyssa of Measured and Slow wanted less drag when free-motion quilting because it fosters good quality stitching. The solution is having your sewing machine flush with the table top. Since store-bought sunken sewing tables are pricey, she decided to make … Read More...
Faith of Fresh Lemons brings this pincushion to the party. What party, you ask? Select bloggers are celebrating the fabric collection release of Good Neighbors by making a pincushion with some of the newly released fabric. Designed by beloved blogger, … Read More...
Generous Jennifer, of Chronicles of Home, shares this free printable as part of the “23 Free Fall Printables and Inspiring Vignettes” event. It’s lovely.
Click the link below to download her Cinderella Pumpkin watercolor, plus see what the other … Read More...
Working in a series, Tonya, of The Crafty Mummy, continues to explore rainbow color schemes in miniature. What you see here is a close-up section of her fourth mini quilt. Her fabric choices are cheerful, and do check out her … Read More...
One day, I hope to visit Lincoln, Nebraska (not to see the corn fields), but to visit the International Quilt Study Center & Museum. Sigh. If you live close enough, don’t miss the exhibit African-American Quilts from the Cargo Collection.… Read More...
Pumpkins for your li’l punk-ins. You don’t have to visit the pumpkin patch to get in the Autumnal spirit. Ella Claire’s guest blogger, Emmie, from My Someday in May, offers up this free printable of a truck overflowing with … Read More...
Kirsty of Bonjour Quilts celebrates the start of Spring (Australia) with this fresh quilt she calls “Meadow”. Commenter Betty van Os had this reaction to it,
… Read More...Beautiful sweeping meadow full of flowers in spring; I can almost smell them from
A well-used quilt, according to Becky Jorgensen of Patchwork Posse, will soon need a good lather. She gives us the lowdown on two acceptable ways of cleaning them – hand or machine. She explains which of the two is best … Read More...
Here are two brilliant botanical prints Karen, of The Graphics Fairy, shares with her readers. I think the first one, Tropical Leaves, is begging to go under a thread artist’s needle. While Karen sees these two leaf prints hanging … Read More...
Tender as butterfly wings, the black hearts skip across a white ground. Dots and solids join the queue in triangles positioned side-by-side, some up, some down. This well-designed baby quilt, a part you see here, is the work of Ashley … Read More...
Liberty lover Peta, of She Quilts Alot, shares on her blog a free project sheet, Square in a Square Liberty Quilt. She says it’s the perfect pattern for showing off your Liberty fabric collection. She adds,
… Read More...Readers can make
No, this is not a puzzle, it’s a diagram of a quilt. The maker, Jenn Nevitt, of mommysew, used a simple block, the Snowball. Clever placement of these blocks make the quilt sing. About the theme of the quilt, she … Read More...
Come October, Elizabeth (Don’t Call me Betsy) kicks off her third BOM event, calling it the “Epic Sampler”. There are two types of Block of the Months. In one, the host provides fabric along with the pattern; in the other, … Read More...
Sharing is caring. This is especially true of the online quilting community with blogs full of secrets for reaching patchwork bliss. One of my favorite bloggers, Tonya, of Crafty Mummy, is using a new tool she wants you to know … Read More...
It’s true, dogs and quilts portray a scene less typical than cats and quilts. However, many a quilter is also a dog lover or just a dog lover. Lorna, of Sew Fresh Quilts, addresses this gap with her latest … Read More...
Congrats goes to Cindy S, as she is the winner of Quilting Makes the Quilt. Her winning comment is,
I enjoy piecing a quilt but not quilting it so much.
This book might change this sentiment to a love … Read More...
The best invention ever made is the sewing machine. In my circles at least, we get that it’s the one must-have item that declares to the world, we sew and/or *quilt. Sindy of FatCat Patterns gets it too, as she … Read More...
For creatives who visit Pinterest and the like for inspiration, Amy of Pikaland, is certain the outcome is less productivity. At least this is what her students are telling her. Calling the condition “inspiration fatigue” she claims there’s a cure. … Read More...
This is a brilliant example of a New York Beauty (NYB) quilt block, made by Cindy, of Fluffy Sheep Quilting. She mixed whimsical fabric motifs with pink and green solids. It works!
Quilters refer to this simple block as Block … Read More...
As promised in this post, I’m giving away a copy of Quilting Makes the Quilt book. Though published back in the 90’s, it’s still worthy of a place in your craft library. Why else would it still be listed … Read More...