I recently received these ‘Bottle o’ Buttons’ jars. What fun! Little jars of color-coordinated buttons just waiting to be used for some quick and easy projects. Button blankets have been around for hundreds of years. A button blanket is a wool blanket embellished with mother-of-pearl buttons, created by Northwest Coastal tribes in North America,…
This week I shared with you several gift ideas that are sew easy to make, there’s still enough time to make the Simple Essentials Traveler’s Tote for the person on your list who travels often. During the holiday season, baking is on almost every family’s to-do list. The very popular…
This week has been so much fun as we have learned how to express pretty words through quilting using the beautiful Gütermann Dekor rayon thread. Yesterday we completed the background quilting to really make the letters and trapunto sections stand out. Now it’s time to complete our designer cushion. Preparing your…
Welcome back. Yesterday was such a fun day! We set up our machines for free motion quilting, did our first set of outline quilting, learned how to trim the batting for trapunto and layered our piece to prepare for today’s background quilting. Now it’s time to really make those quilted…
I hope you’ve been having fun getting ready to free motion quilt words and more for a designer cushion. Was it hard deciding what you wanted to say? Maybe you’re already making more than one? In yesterdays post we learned how to mark, layer and baste your piece. Now it’s…