When planning a quilting project, it’s easy to focus more on the quilt top where most of the decorative work goes. However, selecting the right fabric for the backing is also important. What’s the best fabric choice for quilt backing? The best fabrics for quilt backing are cotton, linen, and flannel. Cotton blended with wool…
Free-motion quilting is a specific style of quilting using a machine. It can be done on your regular home sewing machine or on a long arm quilting machine. It is much faster and more precise than quilting by hand. And some say it is much more fun too! The process of free-motion quilting involves a…
You need to have the right materials when quilting, and you need to be able to trust the materials you are using. One of these materials used when quilting is invisible thread. It is used for quilting tops that have a wide range of colors, textures, and visuals. Invisible threading helps to camouflage quilting stitches…
Fibers have been woven into fabrics for about 100,000 years. The process is quite simple, but getting the fabric just the right texture and color can be very complicated. Luckily, all that is done for us now. We just pick the fabric we like from thousands and thousands of choices. Choosing the right thread for…
The huge variety of beading and weaving thread and jewelry wire available is astounding. Finding the right one for your project can be a daunting experience. There are a lot of options when it comes to bead stringing projects. There are plenty of high-quality threads that will help you create fabulous jewelry that will last…
A perfectly executed hand quilting stitch has been envied and admired since the art of quilt making began. Quilters are in awe of beautifully hand-stitched quilts. Yet, most of them avoid using this method because they are never happy with how it turns out. So what is the best thread for hand quilting? Cotton thread…
Scissors make any kind of tedious work simple if they are sharp, and we may be a good designer or can sew like a whiz but it all depends on a good pair of scissors. Scissors aren’t something that we buy as often as we can buy fabric or the other paraphernalia to make the…