jennifer houlden

It’s the end of the week which means that today is the day to finish the table runner so it can adorn my table over the next couple of weeks for the holidays. I’m going to show you 3 ways to embellish the charming Christmas runner. Yesterday I used the…

The fun part is here! Not that piecing and quilting aren’t fun but I do enjoy making designs with applique and today I’m going to use four different shapes to create some applique. These mini templates create perfect applique shapes for my charming Christmas runner. Yesterday I quilted the runner…

With the quilt top all pieced it’s now time to do some quilting. I find that many quilters aren’t quite sure on how to finish off the thread ends when quilting. Today I’ll highlight 3 methods to tie off quilting threads. Yesterday I pieced the quilt top together and am…

I’ve gathered up my equipment to use in this project and sketched out a design on a piece of paper as well as cut a few pieces of fabric to create the background of the project. Today I’m going to move forward and highlight 3 essential tips for adding borders…

Christmas really is just around the corner and now that I have all my projects for others completed I thought that I would make something for myself – what a novel idea! How many of us actually make things for ourselves at Christmas? So follow along this week as I…