We're making a Dresden plate!⟶
There’s a moment in every quilt when all the individual blocks finally come together. Up until then, everything exists in pieces. Stacks of blocks. Small sections. Parts of something larger. But once you begin sewing the rows and joining them together, the quilt starts to feel whole. This is the step where the design really…
Snowball corners look simple. Draw your line, place the square in the corner, sew it down, trim the excess, and press. And yet… they come out a little off most of the time. Not wildly wrong. Not even close to a quarter-inch mistake. Just a tiny shift. A smidgen. Enough to make the corner feel…
I recently finished up a Soulshine mini quilt, and I wanted to share the process with you, especially the quilting and finishing steps. Minis are one of my favorite ways to explore new quilting ideas, and this one was a great opportunity to play with both free motion quilting and ruler work. In the video…
If you have spent any time free motion quilting, tension issues have probably shown up at least once. Sometimes they appear suddenly, even when everything seemed to be working just fine a few minutes earlier. That moment can feel frustrating or even discouraging, especially if you are still building confidence at the machine. This post…
There’s something really special about sitting down with a quilt sandwich and letting the design unfold as you stitch. This free motion quilting pillow started as a simple idea and slowly turned into one of my favorite finishes. I wanted to share the process with you, not as a tutorial, but as a quiet look…
If you’ve been curious about what’s happening inside Quilty Club right now, I wanted to share a little update about Quilt as Desired and where we currently are in the class. Quilt as Desired is a free motion quilting class that focuses on learning how to move a quilt sandwich under the machine with confidence….