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 [...]

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 [...]

On The Tenth Day Of Havel’s, My True Love Is The Rotary Pinking Blade Make the Back Label and the Spine Label 1. Apply fusible web to fabric before cutting.This will keep the back label and spine label from fraying. 2. When using this blade, be sure to hold it upright so that both sides [...]