Quilting Articles, Audio Clips, Videos and e-Courses

 

Glossary of Quilting Terms

Quilting e-Courses

Quilting Fabric

Color and How to Pick Fabric

Tips for Sewing Quilt Tops

Bed and Quilt Sizes
Easy Blocks for Beginning Quilters
5 Quilt Blocks made from Strips of Fabric
Calculating Fabric Requirements - a specific example
Calculating Fabric Requirements for an Attic Windows Quilt
Chain Sewing Patches
Making a Quilt With Embroidered Blocks - a specific example
Fusing Fabric
Sewing Strips of Fabric Together to Make "New" Fabric
Sewing a Flat Quilt (Keeping the Buckles and Puckers out)
How do I Make Sure the Batting and Backing are Big Enough?
Hand Cutting Patches with Scissors
My Kid Just Cut a Quilt - Now What?
Attaching a Hanging Sleeve Under your Binding
Tips for Sewing Triangles
Blind stitch - short video
Miter the Corners of Your Binding - short video
How to Remove Sections of a Quilt
Thread and the Tension on Your Sewing Machine - audio clip
Layering Your Quilt for Basting - video clip
Strip Piecing a 9 Patch - video clip
Sewing an 8 pointed Star
Keeping Blocks Organized

Seam Allowances
Seam Allowances
Sewing a 1/4 inch Seam Allowance
Seam Allowances in Rag Quilts
ZigZag or Serge a Seam Allowance on a Patch?
How to Remove Sections of a Quilt

Sewing Patches
Half-Rectangles
Square in a Square
Tips for Sewing Accurate Patches
Strip Piecing a 9 Patch
Tips for Sewing Accurate Patches Part II
Pressing Seam Allowances

Tips for Sewing on the Bias
Sewing on the Bias
Sewing on the Bias Part II
Sewing on the Bias Using Freezer Paper
Using Freezer Paper for Applique and Quilt Blocks

Borders
Measuring Your Quilt Top for Perfect Borders
Measuring Borders for your Quilt
Adding Borders to Your Quilt Top
Use Blocks as Borders

Backing
What is the Best Type of Backing for my Quilt? from Ricky Tims

Video
Miter the Corners of Your Binding
How to Chain Sew Half Square Triangles
Rotary Cutting for Right Handed Quilters
Blind stitch- Short video demonstration of how to blind stitch
Layering Your Quilt for Basting - video clip
Measuring Borders for your Quilt - video clip
Strip Piecing a 9 Patch - video clip

Sashing - How to add interest to your quilt blocks 

Add a Simple Sashing
Now Add Cornerstones to Sashing
Sashing on Point with Cornerstones
Sashing Using Stripes of Fabric
Crazy Pieced Sashing
Pieced Sashing

Design Ideas for Borders

Same Blocks, Different Colors
Make your Borders Soar with Flying Geese
Sew a Stripe in the Middle of your Geese and Break Them Up
Use Blocks as Borders
Measuring Borders for your Quilt - video clip
Designing a Quilt Border

Quilt Batting

Hobbs Premium Battings Made to Quilters Specifications - Explore the wide variety of Hobbs quilt batting and which to use in your quilt.
Save Small Pieces of Batting - Waste not, want not! Combine your small pieces of batting into a quilt size batting with a few big stitches.
Bamboo Batting
Cotton Batting
Choosing Batting
Alternative Batting
Wool Batting

Layering and Basting

How to Layer a Quilt
Layering Your Quilt for Basting - video clip
Tips for Basting a Quilt
How to I Make Sure the Batting and Backing are Big Enough?

Tips for Machine Quilting

Hand Quilting

Hand Quilting – Part I - Discover the very basics of hand quilting.
Hand Quilting – Part II - More about hand quilting.
How Far Apart Should My Quilting Stitches Be?
What Kind of Quilting Design Should I Use?
Should I use a Hoop or Quilting Frame?
How to Set Up a Quilting Frame
Stitch in the Ditch - Stitching in the Ditch
Hide Your Hand Quilting Knot Inside your Quilt Top
Your First Hand Quilting Can Be a Frightening Experience
Transferring a Design Onto Your Quilt
Sore Quilting Fingers?
Safely Storing Needles

 

Finishing Quilts

Tips for Hand Sewing

The Quilting Hobby

Can Quilting Really Promote Good Health?
Are you part of the New Generation who is unleashing their artistic potential by learning how to make a quilt?
Beginning Quilting – a New Hobby or Craft?
Healing Quilts
Are there men Quilters?
Create fun quilts just by changing the fabric & shapes of the patches
A Tidbit of Quilting History

Quilting Tools

Sewing Machines
Buying a Sewing Machine
Those Little Singer Featherweight Machines
What is a Quality Machine? - audio clip
Singer Featherweight
Sewing Machine Needle Grabber

Video
Rotary Cutting - Right-Handed Quilters

Audio
The Shelf Life of Thread - audio clip (Bob Purcell)
Types of Thread - audio clip (Bob Purcell)
How to Set the Tension on your Machine for Machine Quilting- audio clip (Pam Bauer)
Thread and the Tension on Your Sewing Machine - audio clip (Bob Purcell)
What is a Quality Machine? - audio clip - Monika Gassaway

Thread
Types of Quilting Thread
More about Quilting Thread
Matching Thread or Contrasting Thread?
Should I buy my Thread at Walmart?
Tidbits About Thread from History
How is Cotton Thread Made?
The Shelf Life of Thread - Audio Clip
Types of Thread - Audio Clip
Silk Thread
High Quality Thread

Rotary Cutters
How to Cut Fabric with a Rotary Cutter
Quick Tips for Using Your Rotary Cutter
Cutting a Short Strip from a Piece of Fabric Using your Rotary Cutter
Cutting Straight Fabric Strips
Quick Tips for Cutting Fabric with Your Rotary Cutter
Using Your Rotary Tools to Cut 45° Angles
Cutting Triangles
Speed Cutting with a Rotary Cutter
Templates for Rotary Cutting

Tips for Sewing Rag Quilts

About Quilts

Labeling Your Quilt - Your quilt isn't finished without a label!
My Kid Just Cut a Quilt - Now What?

Paper Piecing

Tips for Successful Paper Piecing - Your fabric postcard paper piecing guide 

Quilt Binding

Binding a Quilt
Store Bought vs. Hand Made Binding
Self-Binding

Fun Ideas for Quilt Tops 

Easy Blocks for Beginning Quilters
Making Quilts Using Photographs
Give a Teacher an Apple that They can Keep for a Lifetime
Using Different Size Blocks in a Quilt Top
Crazy Quilts
Irish Chain Quilts - including fabric requirements
Making a Quilt With Embroidered Blocks - a specific example
Half-Rectangles Butterfly and Flowers
5 Quilt Blocks made from Strips of Fabric
What to do with Those 4 inch Batik Squares
Crazy Quilts
Crazy Quilting Design
Hollow Cubes, or Floating 3 Dimensional Blocks
Ideas for Quilts with Curved Edges
Combine the Tennessee Waltz Quilt block and the Snowball block for a fun Christmas Quilt
A Rainbow Quilt - 3D Quilt
Log Cabin Trees
Jacob's Ladder and Stepping Stones Quilt Blocks
Applique Animals on a Quilt
Irish Chain for a Baby Quilt
Time and Tide Quilt Block
Scrap Quilt with Hearts
Class Quilt from Language Arts
Whole Cloth Quilts
Bear Paw Quilt
Tree of Life Quilt Block
All Hallows Quilt Block
Space Quilt
Ocean Waves Quilt with Batik Fabrics
Premium Quilts
Unfinished Quilt Projects

 

Quilters Quandries 

What can I do when I discover that my quilt batting and backing are too small?
How should I quilt a vintage quilt when the fabric is fragile?
What can I do with my sister's old bluejeans and spandex shirts?
Should I ZigZag or Serge a Seam Allowance on a Patch?
What should I do when the edges of my rag quilt are uneven?
My Kid Just Cut a Quilt - Now What?

Quilters Questions 

Quilt as You Go Projects

Tips for Successful Quilt as You Go Projects
A Common Method for Quilt as You Go

 

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