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Inspiration for wool felting projects infused with machine embroidery stitching.
Know Your (Hand-Sewing) Needles
Here's a little primer to the most commonly used hand-sewing needles: how to recognize them and how best to use them.
How to Maintain Your Sewing Machine
Your machine is your most expensive piece of equipment. But even if you got it for a song at a tag sale, it’s important to maintain it. Take care of your sewing machine regularly and it will last for years.
Crafting on the Go: Where, When, and Insider Tips
Use your time wisely—make all your time crafting time! Knitting, crocheting, hand-sewing, and embroidery can go anywhere if you plan ahead.
Seminole Piecing
Seminole piecing is simple to do yet looks so complex. Use this technique to edge, border, or embellish any project. Or piece some strips and inset them to add some spark to a garment, bag, pillow—the possibilities are endless.
Tutorial: Diaper and Wipes Holder
Calling all moms: Keep yourself stylish with this super-cute diaper and wipes case!
Make a Quilt and Find a Cure
Over 2,500 quilts have been made so far as part of this amazing initiative to raise awareness and fund research for Alzheimer's disease.
The American Sewing Guild Conference
Sewers from all over the country are heading to Chicago to attend the annual conference of ASG. And I'm on my way there, too.
Tutorial: Diaper Changing Pad
This is a cute and very practical project you can make for yourself or someone who is expecting!
Spread the Craft Contest--Win $1000!
There's still time to enter this crafty video tutorial contest!
Fearless Crafting
Try a new craft without fear of it turning out as a giant waste of time and money. (Careful, though—you might get addicted!)
Quilted Post Cards
These quilted post cards by Pink Chalk Studio commemorate a road trip across five states last July 4th.
How to Quilt with Paper Foundation Piecing
This popular piecing method isn’t viable for every quilt design, but it’s a great way to handle miniature quilts or quilts with complex angles. The blocks turn out really straight because you use the paper as a stitching guide and you don’t need traditional templates.
Spoonflower Power!
A new website lets crafters purchase custom-designed fabric.
Silk Fusion
This process of felting with silk fibers has been around awhile, but I really became aware of it last fall when I attended Quilt Festival in Houston. It seems a lot of surface design techniques are spreading over to the “quilt world” and that’s really exciting because it gives us more opportunities to be creative!
Crazy Quilting
When you’re passionate about any craft it can make you a little crazy at times, but in this case I’m talking about a style of patchwork that originated back in the 19th century with whole quilts and can be seen today in all sorts of things from handbags to lampshades.
Quilting: A Creative Process
I’ve mentioned before about the need to be exact when making a quilt. But you don’t always have to stay between the lines.
Lazy Susan Cutting Mat
This is the best invention and a must-have tool if you cut a lot of pieces for patchwork.
When Straight Lines Become Curves
Some quilt patterns, like Storm at Sea, create an optical illusion. The individual pieces are straight-sided squares, triangles, or diamonds, but the overall effect is one of undulating curves throughout the quilt.
The Quilt Trail
The popularity of quilts and quilting has sparked many a road trip with a quilt show as the destination. But in the Southeast, quilts are a part of the journey as travelers explore the Appalachian Quilt Trail.
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