Feb 21, 2012
Eight Tips for Perfect Rotary Cutting By Liz Kettle Rotary cutting is one of the best tools in the modern quilter’s box. I was so excited when I got my first rotary cutter when I was a budding quilter but that quickly turned to dismay when it turned out a bit harder than it looked. [...]
Jan 16, 2012
Essential Materials for the Beginner By Terry White Quilters are an emotional group of people. We tend to fall in love with a thread, a pair of scissors, a sewing machine or fabric. After we love it, we defend it and try to convince everyone that, “mine is the best!” Please keep this in mind [...]
Dec 6, 2011
Altered Print Tray Project: “Scissors as Art” by Terry White My brother, Wally (the carpenter) gave me 20 old printer’s trays. Then, I received a beautiful set of Havel’s scissors….I know….I’ll make cool displays for my scissors! The first one I made is now on the set of Quilting Arts TV. So, I took photos [...]
Nov 14, 2011
Best Scissors For Use With Difficult Fabrics by Leslie Jenison In this tutorial I demonstrate how to use sheers to build a layer over the surface of a project. For this project I took scraps of fabric that had been used for a previous project and fused them to a base-layer of cotton cloth with [...]
Nov 11, 2011
ESSENTIAL TOOLS NEEDED FOR EVERY QUILTER ~ By Terry White You’ll thank me later…. If you are a beginner to quilting, the tools you need are few. There are, literally, thousands of tools for quilting available to the stitcher…it can be very confusing. So, to simplify, here is a list of the most essential things [...]