Making Money from Quilting
Wake up Quilters; I have an e-book on how to make money from quilting. “Patchwork and Quilting Business Compendium” Do […]
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Learning How to Quilt
Beginners Guide to Quilting
Would you like to transform ordinary fabric into a handmade quilt and get starting in quilting today? Have you been
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Quilt Binding – SEW Difficult?
Many people who see my baby quilts, especially those who sew, ask me the about making my quilt bindings.
Since my entire baby quilts are made with 100 percent baby flannel, which gives them the cuddly soft touch. With proper machine wash and dry, the baby quilt will only become softer with time. The binding needs to hold up overtime with the baby’s love and in the wash.
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Baby Quilt Design – Grandma’s Advice
Another new day is an opportunity for Mother Nature to turn her colors back on and for Grandma that meant designing a baby quilt.
There is an endless possibility of color and fabric choices available to quilters. Grandma’s advice will lead you to mix and match, blend and complement the colors and fabrics that will best fit your baby quilt pattern.
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Choosing A Name for A Baby Quilt
Do you believe in “Once Upon A Time”?
The fabrics are just right, the colors for the baby quilt are the ones blend perfectly, all seams and points are matching, and you have the last stitches on the border in place. It is time to name the quilt.
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Fancy Quilt Binding
Fall in Love with a Fancy Binding
You have mastered the art of straight and bias binding but is there more than just a straight edge to your finished baby quilt?
Choosing a challenging binding involves time commitment, extra fabric, and some advanced planning to make sure the binding fits the baby quilt.
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Binding Us Together
Love is the thread that will continue binding us together.
In a baby quilt the binding is the last part that keeps those raw edges from showing and adds the finishing touches to your project.
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A New Embroidery Machine – Thanks to Kay.
New Embroidery Machine – Thanks to Kay.
Hand-stitching names and images or doing fabric crafts have always been one of my favorite pastimes. But as the popularity of the home embroidery machine opened new possibilities, and I could save time and effort while still allowing artistic flair in choices of pattern, size, position and color, my sites were set on owning one of the newest of the embroidery machines on the market. Looking at the home budget or my profits earned from the sales of the baby quilts that was not in cards.
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Speaking the Language of Quilting
As a new school year is about to begin, I am preparing my classroom for my 38th year as a classroom teacher. Teaching our young men and women has been, next to raising my own family, the most rewarding experience of my life.
Many of our students come into the classroom today speaking languages that are not only different than English, but though beautiful to hear cause the child great hardships in classroom. Each needs to learn the basics of the language before the content can be mastered.
The same would be reflected in the quilter’s world. If you come to the world of quilting as a sewer, many of the following terms will sounds familiar. Sewing is not the basic class for quilting, so the following definitions will make it easier to understand the world of the quilter and the language that they speak.
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