Simple Sewing and Sweetness
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas! And making this sweet set of quilt and matching toddler pillowcase was so much fun! The bird print is Robin in the Hood by Michael Miller Fabrics. The leafy green print for the accent is from the Hopscotch collection by Jamie Fingal for RJR Fabrics and […]
Top 10 Tips for New Quilters – Quilting with your Walking Foot
Welcome to this week’s installment of the Top 10 Tips for new quilters – Quilting with your Walking Foot. For the complete line up of weekly tips, please see this page. Quilting with your Walking Foot: You have completed your latest quilt top! Yes! What an accomplishment. Now what? Lots of quilters shy away from […]
Pretty in Plaid – St. Louis 16 Patch finish!
Fall winds and cooler temps are here again. It seems that summer gets shorter and shorter every year. This week I took advantage of the opportunity to have one more outdoor photo shoot on the old hay wagon. While working on my weekly posts for the Top 10 Tips for New Quilters series, I was […]
Top 10 Tips for New Quilters – Fabric & Thread
Introducing Week 1 of the Top 10 Tips for new Quilters – Fabric & Thread For the complete line up of tips, please see this page. Quality Cotton Quilting Fabric: Three elements are used to determine the quality of cotton quilting fabric: the thread count, the quality of the threads/yarns used, and the finishing processes. […]
Quilt Blog Tips from the Experts
You started quilting. You started blogging. Now what? Are you wondering how to turn the passion for your hobby into something more? Something bigger? Do you want to make it your life’s work? A full time business? As a quilting blogger, you may have asked yourself, “Do I have what it takes to succeed?”Just what […]