Finishing the quilt left me with idle hands (like there’s not several other projects awaiting attention), so I decided to begin another rug. This one will be made from Bob’s old, stained, worn t shirts. I’m cutting them in long strips so I expect the rug will be more striped rat...
I was practicing a new technique (well, new to me) to attach binding to a quilt or project of any size. Since it’s easiest to practice on something small, I made these. This technique uses the backing fabric to wrap around to the front and make mitered corners so it finishes nice a...
Quilter Sarah Bond has a special, deep relationship to quilting. After learning how to quilt nearly 40 years ago, she discovered an extensive family heritage of quilting, specifically from her foremothers Jane Arthur Bond, Ruth Clement Bond, and Louvinia
Creating the quilt, e.g., pushing and pulling a needle through fabric, making decisions about design, ripping apart and starting over. Transforming a destructive experience into something constructive seemed to be a metaphor for the women’s progress in finding and maintaining housing and in their...
“Sunny Day” Lap Quilt Finished! February 4, 2025/3 Comments Not only am I enjoying a sunny day, I am enjoying a breezy day as well! I began with four 15” “Sunny Day” blocks made from scraps and sashed and bordered them with 3” wide strips of text print. Still finding plenty...
Dk Brown Optional:Also cut (2) 2-1/2″ wide x WOF (width of fabric) strips for binding Optional Border:(2) 2″ x 12-1/2″ rectangles and (2) 2″ x 15-1/2″ rectangles How to Make an Attic Window Quilt Block with HST Corners ...
Some people cut their tiles directly off the block of pugged clay. You can buy devices that act like cheese slicers to cut the clay off at a certain thickness. Or, to make your own, take two wood dowels (or wood strips) and make notches at even intervals (one half inch apart for ...
Do you just slap on strips of fabric to add length and width to your quilt? Is your sashing simple? Take your borders from blah to beautiful and your sashing from sad to stunning with the built-in tools in EQ8. This fun workshop explores a variety of borders and border styles from pi...
to do what I wanted it to do. Yes, I miss “needle down” and variable speed….but my skill with this basic machine has led me to teach very successful machine quilting classes to folks who think they can’t machine quilt unless they have a long-arm or other fancy sit-down machine....
Dollars a, the main application area is in quilts producing companies. Also for the mattresses manufacture, this solution is usable. Further fields of application are located in the preparation of marginal strips with different material fractions....