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A Guide to Buying Quilt Fabrics on the Internet
Buying quality quilting fabric on line is almost risk free if you buy from trusted fabric manufacturers. Here are some hints to better judge the color & overall pattern.
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Book review: Flower Garden by Jodie Davis
A review of an essential read for all quilters who are gardeners or nature lovers: "Paper Piece a Flower Garden: Blocks and Projects to Mix and Match".
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Book review: Ghost Layers by Katie Pasquini Masopust
A book explaining Katie Pasquini Masopust's latest innovative technique, which she calls ghost layers. If you like the effect, you're only "three steps" from to "spectacular quilts."
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Book review: Skydyes by Mickey Lawler
A review of a visual guide to fabric painting plus a selection of related links on fabric painting.
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Carol Soderlund Teaches Color Mixing for Dyers
Carol Soderlund teach dyers how to create the color they choose, rather than the color that chooses them. "The tyranny of fuchsia is no more!"
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Fabric Postcards
Quilted fabric postcards are tiny quilts that can fulfill many roles.
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How to Remove Stains from Quilts
There's an ugly stain on your beautiful quilt! All is not lost. Here's how to remove blood, dye, ink, pencil, and some of the other most common stains from quilt fabric.
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Inchie Quilts
Fabric Inchies, one-inch square mini quilts, came on the art scene about the same time as fabric postcards and Artist Trading Cards. But how does anyone display them?
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Molas: the art of colourful applique
Delight in the colourful appliques made by the Kuna Indians of Panama.
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NEW LOVE IN SPRINGTIME
New love in the spring - definitely not a new occurrence. But this romance is a little different.
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Origami with Fabric Scraps
Origami needn't be limited to paper. With the aid of some starch, you can use fabric too!
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Play with Applique
There's nothing like a great pattern to inspire you to get appliquing...
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Printed Daisies
Create spectacular daisies by making a stamp to print the petals and real leaves from a shrub in your garden to print the leaves.
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Quick 'n easy tree wall-hanging
The weekend before she left, I made a gift for a friend moving across the world.
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Quilt Fabric Selection Made Easy
Quilts can be striking or bland, depending on the fabrics used. Fabrics high in contrast or in different values can make a quilt beautiful.
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Quilt Fabric Shopper's Guide to Quality
Fabric from local quilt shops costs more than fabric from the big chains. Is there really a difference in quality, or are discount chain-store fabrics just as good?
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REPRO CRIB QUILT
Nostalgic 1930s reproduction crib quilt with photos and measurements.
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Wash Quilting Fabric Before Beginning a Quilt?
Here are some helpful quilting tips for whether to prewash fabric and what to know to choose thread, batting, and basting method. Know before you sew.
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How to Make an Easy Valentine Fabric Postcard
Show your Valentine what's really in your heart with this simple fabric postcard you can actually send through the mail. It's sure to be treasured for years to come.
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Preparing for Landscape Quilting
Besides being fun, landscape quilting is also creative. Here are some tips for organizing fabrics and supplies for a landscape quilting studio.
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28 Humorous Quilting Quotes
If you're a quilter, or if you're close to a quilter, you'll appreciate these little gems of wisdom and whimsy about the joy - and the obsession - that is quilting.
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Blue: 2008 Color of the Year
Pantone, Inc. chose a shade of blue as its color of the year for 2008--and 2000, 2003, and 2005. Find out why blue is a color every quilter should try this year.
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Book review: The Quilted Garden by Jane A Sassaman
A review of a book profiling the work of this award-wining quiltmaker's work and her techniques.
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Four Log-Cabin Quilt Block Variations
Four distinctive types of Log-Cabin quilt blocks use contrasts between lights and darks to help you create a variety of dramatic quilt looks.
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Organizing A Fabric Stash to be Quilter Friendly
Most fabrics in a stash vary in size. Small bits can be lost among the larger pieces. Organize to see each fabric at a glance without digging, save time and frustration.
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Review: 3 Kids Quilts Books
A look at three books on quilting for kids: Picture Play Quilts by Ami Simms, Special Delivery Quilts by Patrick Lose and Quilt It for Kids by Pam Bono.
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Review: Mariner's Compass CD-ROM
If you've always thought Mariner's Compass quilt blocks were beyond you, here's the solution.
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When Should You Prewash Quilt Fabric?
Some quilters wouldn't dream of starting a project without washing and machine drying their fabrics first. Others never prewash. Which will work best for your project?
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Writing Quilt Lesson
A writing quilt can change a few perceptions about who the students think their peers really are. Each student makes a quilt square that includes six writing pieces.
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Fabrics for Watercolor Quilts
Not only is watercolor quilting creative, it's also fun building up a stash of fabric for your quilts. Here are some guidelines for selecting fabrics.
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TACKLING THE WINTER BLAHS
The post-holiday period can be a gloomy time. What's a gardener to do? Throw yourself into some worthwhile winter projects you can do indoors. It will be time well spent.
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How to Make Four-Patch Quilt Blocks
Learn how to make a simple Four-Patch block consisting of four squares, two squares of lighter fabric and two of darker fabric, arranged in a checkerboard pattern.
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How to Make a Simple Throw Pillow Cover
Here's a quick and frugal way to give your home decor a unique touch. Pillows add a splash of color and softness that makes a room feel comfortable and welcoming.
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How to Bind a Quilt without Hand Sewing
Don't like hand sewing? Here's how to bind a quilt with a continuous binding strip that is attached to the quilt from the back side, then machine-sewed to the front side.
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How to Make a Rag Quilt
Whether using up fabric from a stash or choosing yardages of fabric from a local quilt shop creating a rag quilt is easy and fun to make as a gift for a loved one.
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Stack-n-Whackâ„¢ Quilts
Optimize the beauty of these fun Stack-n-Whack, easy-to-create kaleidoscope designed blocks with a few pointers on fabric choice.
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The Hands of Time
Quilts really do mark the times in our lives. There are many different quilts, wedding quilts, anniversary quilts, birthday, friendship, baby quilts etc...
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Cradle Lace Pillow
Learn how to make a Cradle and Bolster Lacemaking pillow
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Horse Lover Holiday Gifts From The Heart
Great horsy gift ideas you can make now!
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How to Organize a Craft Room
If you're like most crafters you love your hobby, but find it challenging to organize your stash. Here are some tips managing your projects and supplies.
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How to Sew Easy Quilted Fabric Potholders
It takes just an hour or two to make one-of-a-kind potholders from leftover fabric and batting. Potholders make great wedding shower, housewarming, or hostess gifts.
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Quilt Patterns for Fall
Celebrate the new season with some autumn quilt projects featuring pumpkins and other familiar fall themes.
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American Quilts
A brief article on the American quilt, including identification tips.
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CHOOSING QUILT COLORS - WHICH COLORS??
Choosing fabric colors, quilt photos.
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A Quilt That Grows with your Child
For those of you who cry over movies and get that hitch in your throat at long distance phone commercials at Christmas time, this quilting project is right up your alley.
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Viva Chile
The history of Chile's rule under Pinochet
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