You work hard in your sewing room to create your next quilt and you wonder if it is important. When you give this quilt to the new baby, or graduate, or bride, will they like it? Will they use it or use it to shreds? The best quilts get used to shreds. They are given […]
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Times have changed! It used to be quilting bees that got women together to complete quilts. Now we use other titles for the same sort of thing. I belong to a group of 12 that get together twice a month to sew and share our lives. We used to have two rules: 1. No food.
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Laurel learned to sew before first grade. Her mother taught her to thread a needle and knot the thread to make clothes for her dolls. As the years progressed she learned to sew using a pattern. She took tailoring in high school and worked for the home-ec teacher. Quilting as a hobby didn’t arrive until her
Louisa designed a close-up of an anime face for me to use as a quilt design. Louisa knows how to sew but doesn’t yet have quilting experience. I needed a modern and a traditional design to teach applique’ in a video. The method used was turned edge with Terial Magic. View the video: The same
