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...

The Home-Based Quilter by Grace Company began as an effort to dive deeper into the needs of quilters to provide valuable workshops, community forums, and product recommendations to enhance their quilting experience. It became a journey of discovering our audience and how their quilting reflects love in every stitch. “We aren’t perfect, we were n...

Why would you want to make a quilt in a monochromatic color scheme when you have a rainbow of colors to work with when you quilt? A monochromatic quilt is fabulous for that friend or family member that’s obsessed with a particular color. We also love monochromatic color palette quilts for decorating a room to tie together or enhance the existing color sc...