How I Plan My Free Motion Quilting Before I Start
One of the hardest parts of free-motion quilting can happen before you ever sit down at the sewing machine: deciding…
How I Needle Turn Appliqué by Hand
Needle turn appliqué is one of those techniques that can sound a little intimidating until you actually sit down and…
What to Do When Your Quilt Block Is Slightly Off
You know that moment when you finish piecing a quilt block, lay the next piece beside it, and realize things…
How I Plan My Free Motion Quilting Designs
Before I start free motion quilting, I always make a plan. Rather than sitting down at the sewing machine and…
My Quilt Prep Day: Getting Swayful Ready for Free-Motion Quilting
Before the quilting begins, every quilt has a prep day. It’s not the most glamorous part of the process, but…
How to Lay Out a Quilt Before Sewing
One of my favorite parts of making a quilt is laying out the blocks. It’s the first time you get…
How to Speed Up Snowball Quilt Blocks
If you’ve made quilts with snowball corners, you know they can add up quickly. Drawing a diagonal line on every…
Real-Time Free Motion Quilting: Light in the Dark Mini Quilt
Sometimes it’s nice to simply sit down and quilt. No talking. No rushing. Just the rhythm of the sewing machine…
From Quilt Blocks to Finished Quilt Top
There’s a moment in every quilt when all the individual blocks finally come together. Up until then, everything exists in…
Stop Fighting Your Snowball Corners
Snowball corners look simple. Draw your line, place the square in the corner, sew it down, trim the excess, and…
Quilting the Soulshine Mini Quilt
I recently finished up a Soulshine mini quilt, and I wanted to share the process with you, especially the quilting…
When Free Motion Quilting Tension Goes Wrong and How to Fix It
If you have spent any time free motion quilting, tension issues have probably shown up at least once. Sometimes they…