The versitality of Stonehenge fabric This week on QUILTsocial I’m going to be working with Northcott’s newest addition to their Stonehenge family – Stonehenge Elements so today we’re going to be talking about 10 ways to use Northcott’s Stonehenge fabrics in your quilts. Northcott’s Stonehenge Elements Created by renowned…
Perfect piecing with my PFAFF Passport 3.0 I’m all ready to work on my charity quilts and break in my new PFAFF Passport 3.0 sewing machine. Today I get to work on one of my favorite parts of quilting – piecing! I LOVE piecing! It’s quiet and takes me to…
It doesn’t matter what the temperature gauge says or the calendar, once Labor Day is over and the kids are back in school it’s fall time for me. Fall is my absolute favorite time of year, the anticipation of the beautiful colors and crisp evenings, a chance to decorate for…
Strip-piecing usually means sewing long strips of fabric together, usually width-of-fabric (WOF), and then rotary cutting across the strips to create smaller, uniform units that are already pieced. You can use this technique to make simple 4 patch or 9 patch blocks or much more complex ones. The beauty of…
Time to piece some tumbler blocks… We’ve been exploring the new PFAFF Creative 1.5 Sewing and Embroidery machine and the key features of this little jewel of a sewing machine…I’ve been itching to get started on a Christmas Tumbler Block quilt for a friend and I’m so confident that this…