Collecting fabric is almost inevitably a side effect of being a quilter. As we make our beautiful quilts or dream about future quilts, we almost always acquire more fabric than we use up. If you have been quilting for a long time, you most likely own a solid pile of...
English Paper Piecing has endured for several hundred years and has in recent years had a huge resurgence. A wealth of new shapes, many of them looking deceptively complicated, have surfaced. Instagram is lush with gorgeous photographs of all manner and sizes of EPP...
How is autumn where you live? What smells, sights and activities bring in this new season? With the approaching cool weather comes the season for curling up under a warm quilt. For me, it is also the season for starting new projects. I find myself messing around with...
English Paper Piecing (EPP) has had a huge renaissance over the last 10 to 15 years. Try searching on Instagram for #englishpaperpieceing and you will see a wealth of different styles and paper shapes being used to create a myriad of different patchwork layouts. ...
I don’t know what it is with this scrappy yellow log cabin quilt top that I just finished, but it has been a while since I completed a quilt top that I am this pleased. Something about collecting all these different shades of yellow fabric and then getting the overall...
As the fall season is fast approaching, it's the perfect time to check out some fabric collections to incorporate for your quilting projects. From vintage bold hues, warm and vibrant color palette to the muted Earth fall colors, we rounded up some of the best fall...
This summer, Janome asked me if I would be willing to try out the new Skyline S9. It has been up and running in my sewing room for a few weeks now and I am getting to know it better though I have not yet tried the embroidery module. I would like to share with you...
Have you ever been at a quilt show and stopped to look at a particularly luminous quilt only to realize it was made with silk? Many of us have admired a silk quilt, but the vast majority of quilters cringe at the imagined cost and difficulty associated with quilting...
I don’t know about you but I tend to buy fabric seasonally. Not necessarily for the season (we are in spring right now), but I tend to buy large quantities of fabric a few times a year rather than a steady dribble. Often, I don’t buy fabric for months, sometimes it...