How to - Origami

If you’re into quilting, then you will have a quilt (or a considerable number of quilts) that you’ll want to keep for as long as practical. To keep them in good shape, there are 1 or 2 straightforward things you can do.
While this advice works well for all quilts, it has been written with patchwork [...]

Rolling on with our series on must have quilting tools, we come to
Seam Rippers
If you have ever made a boo boo while quilting (and heaven forbid you do) then you will know the true value of one of a seam ripper.
These are the easiest and most convenient way of undoing any misguided or miscalculated stitching.
But [...]

If you’ve put together a few quilts, probabilities are at least a couple of them have been patchwork quilts. If you have a few under your belt and are yet to do a patchwork one, now is a great time to start!
To get you going, I’ve listed some ideas to get you away from being [...]

It surprises me that there are still quilters out there crawling around on the floor and working on their designs. Albeit when I started quilting, I was laying my patterns out on the floor and it was a few weeks before I thought ‘there has to be a simpler way to do this’. [...]

In the last article, we looked at what to do when marking happens and how to treat oil and grease based stains.
Continuing on from there we will now look at the next commonest sort of stain that happens on quilts:
Protein Stains
Believe it or not, this is a big one. Many people are surprised [...]

What Sort Of Stitching Patterns Do I Need?
There are a couple of stitches that people new to sewing will need. These are the straight stitch and zig zag stitch
All machines have a straight stitch, its the most common and most used stitch by nearly everyone. So its pretty much the default.
Most machines will [...]

For those of you who don’t know what a t-shirt quilt is, it is literally a quilt made out of t-shirts. It works with the same principles as a patchwork quilt design but is unique in its own special way.
The basic idea of these quilts is that you use the designs from old t-shirts, [...]

One of the most stunning and lovely quilts that may finish any bedroom is a patchwork quilt. Although it may seem that the quilt was put together haphazardly, there is really a large amount of care and planning that goes into each one.
So if you’re thinking about how to make a patchwork [...]

Cutting fabric squares is an odd thing. Its something that seems simple to do but tough to master. It can take tens if not hundreds of tries to get the perfect square.
Well if you’re yet to get the perfect square, which is vital if you are going to make a patchwork quilt, there [...]

One of the most significant tools in making a patchwork quilt is a rotary cutter. I recollect how I used to draw lines on fabric, then cut out my pieces with scissors.
I just cringe at even the thought of that now. So where do you start when purchasing your first rotary cutter?
Well there [...]