Articles by Jean Boyd
Banyan Batiks: unlimited design possibilities
Yesterday I showed you how to make a modern quilt using fat quarters from the Banyan Batiks Feathers and Ketan ...
I bet you can’t tell this modern quilt started with 9-patch block
Yesterday I showed you how to use 9 fat quarters from some Banyan Batiks fabrics to make 2 modern nine ...
9 Banyan Batik fat quarters make a superb modern quilt
Yesterday I showed you how to use 2 fat quarters from the Banyan Batiks Visual Sound collection to make a ...
2 fat quarters for a modern table runner is all you need
Yesterday I introduced you to some of the wonderful new Banyan Batiks from Northcott. Have you chosen your favorite colorway? ...
Welcome to fat quarter-friendly week!
Last fall, Northcott introduced their new Banyan Batiks fabrics. Since then several more designs have been added to the collection ...
Using Stitch-n-Steam texturized fabric in your projects
Yesterday I showed you how to add some texture to fabric using Stitch-n-Steam by Unique. After sewing the Stitch-n-Steam to ...
The magic of Stitch-n-Steam
Yesterday I showed you to finish up the ellie mae tote bag using leftover pieces from another quilt project and HeatnBond ...
Finishing the ellie may tote bag
Yesterday I showed you how to adapt the ellie mae Pretty Pieced Purses pattern so you could use up some ...
Sewing the ellie mae tote bag – my way!
Yesterday I showed you a few of the essential notions and quilting tools from brands like UNIQUE, Heirloom, Gütermann and the ...
A box-ful of essential notions for all your sewing and quilting needs
It's always so exciting when the delivery truck shows up at the door with a big box of supplies! The ...
3 little mug mats from leftover Letterpress fabric
Yesterday I showed you how to use fabrics from the Northcott Letterpress Collection to make the Pull-out Plate Placemat for carrying ...
Making the ingenious Pull-out Plate Placemat using leftover Letterpress fabric
Yesterday I showed you how to make the quick and easy Perfect Potluck Placemat using fabric from the Letterpress collection ...
Perfect Potluck Placemat is perfect for quick quilting project!
Yesterday I showed you how to easy it is to get a lot of visual impact using grosgrain ribbon and ...
Simply quilted, high impact Ribbon and Wedges Placemat
Did you have a chance to make the Book Lover Placemat I showed you yesterday? That pattern is a very ...
Fun with Letterpress fabric and making a quilted placemat
Recently I received ½ yard of each of the Letterpress fabrics from Northcott. While you're on the Letterpress page, check ...
Using color shuffling for machine embroidery designs on THE Dream Machine 2
Yesterday I showed you how to re-size, re-color and add fill stitches to a saved embroidery design that was created ...
Creating machine-embroidery wonders using the fill stitch feature
Yesterday I showed you how to add scrappy borders to the Working Girls Quilt. You might remember I made these ...
How to make a scrappy strip border for your quilt
Yesterday I showed you how to use 7 machine embroidered blocks created on THE Dream Machine 2 by Brother and ...
Making Log Cabin-style borders for machine embroidered quilt blocks
Yesterday I showed you how to start putting together some machine embroidered blocks, created on THE Dream Machine 2 by Brother ...
Machine-embroidered quilt blocks make up Working Girls Quilt
On my QUILTsocial blog posts in September and October I invited you to join me on my journey as I learned to use the ...
