Today I’m going to show some examples for how to hand sew binding on a quilt. This is my favorite part of making a quilt,
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Today I’m going to share how I repaired a damaged quilt. I made this quilt 4-5 years ago and then gave it to one of
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It’s the holy grail of every quilter: attain sewing accuracy so that you nail that quarter-inch seam, improve your patchwork skills, and always have perfect
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Hello, friends. Today I’m sharing a tutorial for how to make a french linen bread bag. I whipped up a bunch of these a few
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Usually sewing time is a blissful affair. You sit down with your favorite beverage, maybe fire up a good movie on Netflix, grab some fabrics
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Welcome back! Today’s post is on a topic I have wanted to write about for a VERY long time. In fact, I started this post
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If you love old quilts, this is the kind of story that will break your heart. I’m stitching along with my quilting group when my phone rings. The woman on the other end sounded completely desperate as she explains how she got my number and asks if I could repair her quilt. I knew I didn’t really have room in my schedule to work on it, but I told her to bring it over and I’d take a look. An hour later she shows up with what was once a beautiful specimen of a 30’s feed sack quilt. Not only that, but it was an Apple Core design that had been entirely hand stitched.
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This month I am changing gears a bit and have taken on a few large-scale English Paper Piecing projects. I’ve done a bit of English Paper
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Some of the most stunning quilt designs I have seen are achieved with paper-piecing (also known as foundation piecing.) I have a whole Pinterest Board section dedicated to paper-pieced quilts. If you’d like to see some really intricate, jaw-dropping quilts, check it out. In today’s post, I’m going to explain how to paper-piece a quilt block. It’s a great technique to achieve incredible accuracy in your quilts. Even if you never plan to make an intricate Feathered Star quilt, knowing how to do a little paper-piecing is a good skill to have in your toolbox.
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Hello! Last week I posted an article on how to trim and match points on string quilts, and in particular how to do this on a pattern I wrote earlier this year called the “Let’s Mingle” Quilt. Today I thought I would share a technique for how to make a string quilt block that is really simple and is a perfect introduction to foundation or paper-piecing.
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