Summer sewing is all about timing: sewing in between traveling, holidays and when the weather too nice to stay inside or too hot to go out. My summer sewing happens when the kids go to summer camps. They’re happy being kids on their break while mom sews from sunup to sundown, with breaks for cool sips. Check out the slideshow…
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Summer Sewing Had Us a Blast!
Make Better Flying Geese with Freezer Paper Piecing
Highlights Freezer Paper Piecing Tutorials Did you know you can use freezer paper to easily make perfect flying geese blocks? And beginners can learn just as easily? Maybe you’ve heard about their bad rep from other quilters. For being super challenging, crooked and missing sharp points. Maybe you’ve heard about tediously ripping off paper foundations. And maybe, you’ve decided to…
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Sewing Strips Together: 5 Expert Tips for Success
Sewing strips together well is an essential skill for quiltmaking. I’ve sew so many strip sets that I’ve got tips! Quilters sew long pieces of fabrics into rows then cut them into smaller shapes or blocks. These stitched strips are called strip sets. A strip set is typically made with three or four strips. They are a common building block…
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How To Make Jelly Roll Strips
Make jelly roll strips from your own fabrics using a winning combination of prints, blenders and solids. Pull it all together with color and you’re ready to sew a quilt anytime. Key Highlights Why Make a Quilt with a Jelly Roll? Jelly roll strip bundles are appealing to quilters for many reasons. They save time, are easy to store, offer…
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Making Progress as We Please on BOM Quilts
Make progress to please our creative selves is fun…and sometimes, hard work. Ripping, rethinking, redoing, repeat. So much goes into making a quilt – color choices, fabrics, values and layouts – If you can’t please YOU, who can you please?! It’s all progress and progress is good, even if it feels like we’re going backwards!
