Articles related to "Quilting Fabric"



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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How to Organize Your Quilting Fabric
Fabric is probably a quilter's greatest storage challenge. Arrange your fabric by size and color to make it easier to find what you need when you start a new project.
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Fabric Postcards
Quilted fabric postcards are tiny quilts that can fulfill many roles.
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Keep a Quilter's Journal
Every quilt you make has its own story to tell. Keeping a quilter's journal helps you remember the details of how and why you created each quilt.
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8 Tips for Successful Strip Piecing in Quilting
Strip piecing can dramatically cut the time it takes to sew together many pieced quilt blocks. Try these tricks other quilters use for strip piecing success.
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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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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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10 steps to choosing a new sewing machine
Thinking of buying a new machine? Where do you start and what make and model do you choose? Here are 10 steps to help you make that decision, based on my recent shopping around.
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28 Humorous Sayings for Quilters
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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Applique to Decorate Your Sewing
Add applique to your sewing and crafts to bring additional decoration, or apply to garments and accessories to customize or give a unique touch to your work.
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Book Review: Focus on Features by Charlotte Warr Andersen
Learn how Charlotte Warr Andersen creates her life-life portrayals in applique.
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Book review: Freddy's House by Freddy Moran
Brilliant colour in quilts
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Book Review: Riva by Ruth Reynolds
A humourous book on the world of quilt artist Ruth Reynolds and her outspoken cartoon character, Riva.
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Christmas Quilt Block in Halfsquare Triangles
Directions for a large Christmas quilt block made up of halfsquare triangles.
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Color for Quilters
Like contractions leave out letters, color wheels leave out colors, using only enough colors to complete the circle. Every color has a place in the circle.
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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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How to Make a Quilt Design Wall
Here are nine easy and inexpensive ways to create a quilt design wall that lets you view your quilt and make sure it looks good before you assemble the pieces.
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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 Prewash Quilting Fabric
You've decided to prewash your quilting fabric to control shrinkage and wash out potentially harmful dyes and chemicals. Here's how the expert quilters do it.
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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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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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Options for Binding Your Quilt
Binding fabric covers your quilt's raw edges and helps keep them from getting worn as you use the quilt. Learn about five different ways to bind your quilt.
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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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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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Review: Critter Pattern Works Animal Patterns
A look at some animal machine applique patterns
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Setting Up Your Quilting Space
Even the smallest quilting space needs to include separate work stations for sewing, cutting, and pressing, plus storage space for fabric, tools, and other supplies.
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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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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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How to Make Half-Square Triangle Quilt Blocks
There are many ways to make half-square triangles, one of quilting's indispensable building blocks. Here are some of the most popular ways to piece them
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How to Mass Produce Half-Square Triangle Blocks
Use this fast-piecing grid technique when you want to make more than a few half-square triangle blocks at once from the same two fabrics.
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How to Sew a Quarter-Inch Seam
While accuracy is important in every step of piecing - in measuring, cutting, sewing and pressing-you need to make sure you are sewing a consistent quarter-inch seam.
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Ready for Organic Quilting?
Conventional quilting fabric, threads, and batting are made with heavy doses of toxic herbicides, pesticides, and dyes. But now there's an eco-friendlier way to quilt.
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Four Easy Strip-Pieced Quilt Blocks
If you're a time-challenged quilter - or a beginner who would like to start with a quick and easy quilt - here are four basic blocks you can make fast with strip piecing.
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Introduction to Art Quilts
Art quilts marry the traditional craft of quilting with concepts and techniques imported from the fine arts and graphic design.
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Make a Fabric Gift Pouch in 30 Minutes or Less
Wrap your gifts in clever cloth pouches that can be reused over and over. You'll help reduce the mountain of trash generated by gift wrapping during the holiday season.
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Book Review: Petal by Petal, Appli-bond Flowers by Joan Shay
Create 3-D applique flowers using a fabric bond
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Book Review: The Christmas Stocking Book by Mary D'Alton
50 classical and contemporary stocking designs for different sewing skill levels
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Book reviews: Christmas and Photo-Transfer Quilts
A review of a "Christmas at That Patchwork Place", a book of a 14 festive quilt projects, "Quilting More Memories: Creating Projects with Image Transfers: by Sandy Bonsib, and a quick look at "In the Studio with Judy Murrah".
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Choosing a Sewing Machine Needle
Needles come in a confusing array of shapes and sizes. Here's how to choose the right ones for machine-piecing, machine-quilting, and embellishing with special threads.
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Designing a Family Quilt
How to make a genealogy quilt. Designing of a family quilt with photos.
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Fabric Card Designs
If you've been looking for ultra-mini quilt patterns for fabric cards, here are some books with small-scale designs.
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How to Bind Your Quilt, Pillowcase Style
This method of binding your quilt involves simply sewing around the edges of the quilt sandwich as if it were a giant pillowcase. Use it when you're in a hurry.
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How to Make Nine-Patch Quilt Blocks
The Nine-Patch block, consisting of nine squares arranged in a checkerboard pattern, is one of the mainstays in any quilter's block repertoire. Here's how to make them.
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Interviews with fabric artists
Find out a little about the personalities behind the works, through this collection of interviews with fabric artists.,
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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 Innovative Quilting Books
Here're three quilting books that'll change the way you quilt, forever: Fantastic Fabric Folding by Rebecca Wat, Stitch 'n Flip Quilts by Valori Wells, and Free-Style Quilts by Susan Carlson.
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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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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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Heirloom Machine Quilting—Essential Supplies
Learn which quilting fabrics, threads, needles, and battings are used by experienced heirloom machine quilters to create intricate quilted effects with no hand stitching.
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Quickest, Easiest Way to Make Fabric Yo-Yos
The inexpensive Clover Quick Yo-Yo Maker really does save steps and speed up the process of making fabric yo-yos. It also comes in special flower and heart shapes.
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