Learn how to sew hexies with English Paper Piecing into a Grandmother’s Flower Garden pattern. This fun technique makes for a great portable sewing project. Just baste the hexies ahead of time and throw them in your bag. All the hexie supplies you see here are available here: http://shop.quiltaddictsanonymous.com/product-category/notions/english-paper-piecing-supplies/
If you’ve been watching our quilting videos for any length of time, you know I am a big fan of the wavy line free motion quilting stitch. It is very versatile and can be dressed up or down and can be simplified to cover a quilt densely in a short amount of time. That is […]
***The full 1-hour, 28-minute COMMERCIAL-FREE course on how to quilt Cosmos is available here: https://academy.quiltaddictsanonymous.com/course/quilting-a-pebble-background-filler-and-rulerwork-cosmos/ When I took on the task of quilting Cosmos, designed by Stephanie Brennan using my fabric collection Nocturne, I knew it needed to be epic. I chose separate quilting designs for each border, all three blocks and background. I chose […]
Dress up your sewing room wall with the Strippin’ Mini quilt pattern. This quilt has 25 fabrics and more than 400 pieces, all in a 12-inch block. But don’t worry, you will use two easy techniques to put this quilt together, just on a smaller scale: strip piecing and making half square triangles from squares. […]
Our partnership with SIY Sew it Yourself is continuing and we’ve got a brand new nesting baskets tutorial with a FREE pattern to share with you today! SIY is the creation of the Jaftex Family of fabrics, which includes FreeSpirit, Henry Glass, Blank and Studio E. Their mission is to help newbies learn to sew […]
We’ve got lots of new quilty goodies today to share with you from our friends at FreeSpirit and Robert Kaufman. There are big bold, modern prints, healthcare heroes and shimmering butterflies. First up is BioGeo-1 by Adrienne Leban for FreeSpirit. This one is a fabulous modern print that has several different sizes of what looks […]
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Today is my birthday and my sister got me the lovely sign above. She understands my quilting addiction. My husband, however, doesn’t get it. When he read the sign he said, “I disagree.” My family laughed. They probably disagree too. I have been trying to cut back on my fabric shopping in the last year. […]
Last night I finished hauling the last of the sewing stuff out of the sewing room. It looks so empty and will look even more so once my husband moves the furniture out and into the basement this afternoon. The plan is for me to bring the dogs to my parents for the weekend while […]