A quilt sandwich has three parts: The quilt top: the part of the quilt where all the piecing magic happens. The batting: the fluffy material that goes between your quilt top and backing. The backing: the fabric that makes up the backside of your quilt. Batting isn't flashy, but it impacts your quilt's outcome in several important ways. Things to Con...

Have you ever spent hours finishing a quilt only to find out that the design just doesn’t look the way it did in your head? Maybe the fabric doesn’t jive, or you sewed a block the wrong direction, or all the little pieces don’t go the way you thought they would. All that frustration could have been avoided with a design wall! Design walls can be...

Sure, you’ve been piecing quilts on your trusty sewing machine for years, but if you thought that the actual quilting had to be done by hand, on a longarm quilting machine, or with ties, think again. Plenty of talented quilters work exclusively on domestic machines, making everything from baby quilts all the way up to king size. All it takes is the bravery t...

At face level, choosing the right thread for the quilting or sewing project you have planned is easy. Just pick the thread that will best complement the colors of your quilt top, your backing, your binding.   It turns out, there’s a little more to it than that.   Don’t panic! We’re here to help you navigate the consideratio...

Jaymi’s creativity has taken many forms over her life. She hand-sewed clothes for her Barbies and mixed bread and glue to make clay, she learned tatting, knitting, and crocheting—but when she saved up to buy her own sewing machine in junior high school, she paved a new path for her creativity. Gradually, Jaymi worked her way up from sewing dresses out...