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How to make throw pillows
Update your decor with a new slipcover for your throw pillows. This video shows you how to make them and install an invisible zipper.
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How to make placemats
This is an easy project for beginner sewers and a great way to personalize your decor. Use one yard of 54-inch wide home decor fabric to make four placemats, or two half-yard cuts to make double-sided placemats.
Finishing my own quilt on the longarm
I’m quilting my triangle boot camp quilt tonight at Quilting By You in Bettendorf, Iowa. It’s a great place because there are three longarm machines that you learn to use and rent time on. Before Quilting By You, I always quilted on my home sewing machine, which was OK for crib-sized projects, but is a […]
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How to make curtain panels
Learn how to make curtain panels hung by clips in this video tutorial. You’ll also learn how to sew a blind hem.
Tutorial: How to make curtains hung by clips
For my day job, I work as a social media editor and home improvement blogger for a daily newspaper. In April the Home & Garden section always features a Spring Around the House series, so I’m putting together a few tutorials on easy home decor sewing projects that are designed for beginners. The video above […]
Block a Day Challenge roundup – Week 12
This week was an exciting one in the Block a Day Challenge. The blocks we’ve been making for the first 11 weeks, started coming together as completed tops and quilts. We finished four quilts and two tops this week in addition to 93 new blocks. Great job everyone, keep up the good work. And don’t […]
New York Beauty progress report
The first day of quilt retreat is over and I have a whopping 10 New York Beauty blocks to show for it. That makes 28 total, just four shy of the halfway mark for this king sized quilt. I started it a year ago at retreat and don’t work on it that often at home, […]
Quilt Addicts Anonymous is on Facebook
Why did I wait so long to create a Facebook page for this blog? I don’t really know. I’m a social media editor at my day job, so I’m well aware of the reasons why it’s a good idea to have a Facebook page for a blog. I just didn’t get around to it. But […]
I landed another teaching gig
My class at CommUniversity, lead to another teaching position at Neal’s Vacuum and Sewing Center in Muscatine, Iowa. It all happened when I brought my machine there for an emergency cleaning. I’m paraphrasing a little, but the conversation went a little like this… “I know you’re backed up with sewing machines, but how quickly do […]
Triangle Boot Camp
I’ve started a new quilt, that I designed for a class I’m teaching in June called Triangle Boot Camp. My method of sewing triangles involves sewing them together as squares first and then slicing them in half. It’s easier because the point of the triangles doesn’t get eaten by your feed dogs, you don’t have […]