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 [...]

6 Tools Necessary for Appliqué By RaeAnn Rex If you have even basic sewing tools such as scissors, needle and thread, you can successfully learn how to appliqué designs onto your next project. However, there are some great tools out there, some of which are made with a very specialized purpose, that can make appliquéing [...]

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 [...]

On The Twelfth Day Of Havel’s, My True Love Is The Rotary Skip Blade Make the Bookmark 1. Start with a piece of fabric with fusible web applied and the paper backing torn off.In this case, I used the leftovers from the labels. 2. Fold the fabric onto itself with fused sides together. This creates [...]

On The Eleventh Day Of Havel’s, My True Love Is The Snip-A-Stitch Finish the Edge 1. Use the same thread in the top and the bobbin of your sewing machine. Choose a nice edge finish stitch. I use an edge foot because the stitch seems to look so much better with it. Snip-A-Stitch is a [...]