I’ve been loving Raw Edge Applique for the past few years. I enjoy how fast and easy it is to make a pop of colour! Usually, raw edge applique is done sitting down at the sewing machine. But this tutorial is different. We’ll show how to raw edge applique using a free motion quilting technique …
Mingi Making Faces
Ming Jung, pronounced @meankey is a Korean textile artist who specialises in portraits. What’s unusual about Mingi is that he uses a sewing machine needle and thread to draw with. He uses an amazing and versatile free motion quilting technique to draw portraits. Mingi can create portraits by moving the fabric. He can create portraits …
Tensioning your Juki TL 2200 QVP Mini
free motion quilting We’re going to show how to get your Juki TL QVP Mini straight stitch sewing machine ready for free motion quilting. This Juki straight stitch machine has 4 features that make it the perfect quilting machine: space, speed simplicity and strength. The simplicity of the Juki straight stitch machine makes it easy …
One Day Wonder
One 5-foot, high-tech quilting frame. 6 hours. 3 fabrics. No cutting board, rotary cutter, or ruler. The above ingredients combined most wonderfully on the last day of the Festival of Quilts 2019 to make this cot-sized baby quilt:
Heather Ross wonky triangle Trixie whole cloth
When I saw this Wonky Triangle fabric by Heather Ross for Windham Fabrics, it was just too pretty to cut up! So I decided to make it up into a baby whole cloth. Whole cloth quilts were traditionally a way to show off exquisite quilting. But whole cloth quilts have become popular with modern quilters …
Free motion quilting the Red Triangle Quilt
We’ll be taking you step by step to show how we quilted Pete’s red triangle quilt. Every now and then it’s good to go through the entire process of making a quilt. Earlier, we posted about piecing the red triangle quilt Here we’ll explore the quilting process. There are many ways to quilt a quilt. For …
Merry & Bright Christmas Tree Table runner tutorial
I love driving around at night and seeing all the lovely Christmas lights. I’ve tried to capture that joy in this raw edge applique project. Black backing fabric creates a brilliant night sky and bright saturated Kaffe Fassett-type fabrics work well for the trees. Choosing just the right threads made the trees light up with …
Baby Whole Cloth Quilts
Have you noticed that Baby Whole Cloth quilts seem to be popping up everywhere? We think that these little whole cloth quilts are simply fantastic. They focus on the fabric. And really, there is so much gorgeous fabric around why cut it up? The fast and simple project can make the perfect gift for …
Stripy Table Runner
Practice new line designs on a stripy table runner! When you’re learning something new, start small and simple. This easy-to-piece stripy table runner creates an ideal canvas to practice new line designs. The easier something is to piece, the more adventurous you’ll be when it comes to the quilting. The strips are simple to cut and piece. …
Thread Painting Starry Night
Starry Night is arguably Vincent van Gogh’s most famous painting, but he considered it a failure at the time. Vincent van Gogh’s iconic 1889 oil on canvas painting of The Starry Night is currently in New York’s Museum of Modern Art. We can get insight into the painting by lines from a letter that Vincent …