Here are all my quilting tips in one convenient place. My goal in every post and video to to explain things are clearly and simply as possible so that you can understand. Because understanding gives you creative freedom.
Remember, you are capable. You can enjoy creating beautiful quilts.
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4 Ways to Finish Your First Quilt (Without the Stress)
If you’ve just run across the vague words “quilt and bind as desired” at the end of a quilt pattern, this is what you need to know…
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How to Trim Half Square Triangles: 3 Easy Methods for Beginners
Learn three different methods for trimming half square triangles—whether you have specialty rulers or just your basic quilting ruler. Discover why patterns ask you to trim, what you’re actually accomplishing, and which method might work best for you. Understanding the “why” eliminates the overwhelm.
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What is longarming a quilt?
Have you just finished your first quilt top and you’re ready to turn it into a quilt with those beautiful quilting stitches? If it’s big, someone might have said to you, “Oh, you should get it longarmed,” or “You should take it to a longarmer.” And you’re probably wondering… what on earth is a longarmer?…
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How to Cut Fabric for Your First Quilt Without Getting Lost
You’re a brand new quilter and you’ve bought all the fabric for your quilt just as the pattern tells you, and now you’ve opened up the rest of your pattern to find a cutting chart that looks a little like math?
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Rotary Cutting for Beginner Quilters: Transform your Fear into Confident Creating
You know those horror stories that make you hesitate about starting to quilt? The ones about emergency room visits and stitches from rotary cutters? Understanding why accidents happen – and how to prevent them – changes everything about using this amazing tool.
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How to cut straight strips for quilting
You know that sinking feeling when you unfold your freshly cut strips and they look like a big W or V instead of nice straight lines? Those kinked strips aren’t caused by a broken rotary cutter or warped ruler…it’s all in the fold!
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How to Stop Your Quilting Ruler From Slipping (3 Simple Techniques)
Sure, when your ruler slips and you get an inaccurate cut, that’s frustrating. But here’s what really matters – every time your ruler slips, you’re at risk for cutting yourself. That’s why learning these techniques isn’t just about better cuts; it’s about safer cutting.
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DIY Chenille Quilt Texture – Why on Bias?
Have you ever wondered why chenille fabric has that wonderful soft texture that makes baby quilts so special is always sewn and cut on the bias? Understanding the “why” behind chenille techniques opens up so many creative possibilities for adding texture to your quilts…
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Quilt Bingo
You know when the beginning of your year turns into a recovery from the last year? And then, you start making lists of all the things that you ‘have’ to do this next year? And what started as a ‘Let’s make some good resolutions and hit the ground running‘ turns into ‘There’s so much to…
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What causes wavy quilt borders
Wait to cut your borders so you can have a flat quilt!
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How to sew an accurate 1/4 inch seam
If you want everything to match up when piecing a quilt, you need your seams to be accurate. But how do you do that?
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How to pick a beginner quilt pattern – 5 red flags
The pattern you choose for your first quilt can mean the difference between an experience that makes your first quilt your last quilt, or the start of a peaceful and rewarding journey.
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What is a fat quarter?
What are those pretty little packages of fabric in the store labeled ‘fat quarters’? And why do they even exist?
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How to finish your quilt
If you are making your very first quilt from a pattern you may have come to the end where it says layer, quilt and bind, or finish as desired. What does that mean?
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Sewing machine feet needed to make a quilt
If you are a beginner sewer and want to make a quilt, you have likely seen references to needing a special presser feet to make a quilt. And when you went looking at the store or online there were so so many. Do you really need all those special feet to make a quilt?
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Picking a quilt pattern for specific fabric
Sometimes you just want to start with the fabric. Have you had this happen? You’ve found some fabric you really like, and you want to make a quilt based on it, but you don’t know what pattern to use. I’ve got a simple two part tip: 1) Figure out what size square makes the fabric…
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Why make a quilt?
I have to confess. I really just like to sit at my sewing machine and sew. Sure I like to make things while I sit there, but really, the whole process of using the sewing machine is just soothing to me. But why I do like quilting especially?
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Tackling unfinished quilts
Unfinished projects are just another form of clutter. Just like cleaning out your basements, if you spend a little time eliminating clutter your creativity can blossom.
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Freebies and Tips
Okay, so there’s only two things on this list, and one is the thing you just downloaded. That just means you are in on the ground floor…and I will love on you even more 🙂 Any new freebies will get sent first to my email list. But if you just joined, this is what has…
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What is a half square triangle?
All about HSTs, including a simple chart to download so you never have to wonder what size to cut your starting squares.
