Quilting Tips, Tutorials & Inspiration

How to Use a Wool Pressing Mat What Is a Wool Pressing Mat?   Wool pressing mats, also commonly known as wool ironing mats or wool pressing pads, are gaining popularity among serious and recreational...

How to Calculate Dimensions for Quilting Whether you’re a beginning quilter or one who’s experienced, each project comes with the need to do some calculations so you can determine the quilt dimensions. Many people don’t...

Designer Spotlight: Chris Hoover Chris Hoover began sewing at eight years old. She focused mainly on clothes. One day, a woman showed her a quilt she made in a beginning quilt class. “It was either...

What is a Layer Cake? Buying quilt fabric as a novice quilter can be reasonably daunting. There's not only the measurements and accuracy of those measurements to consider there is, not least of all, the...

What is a Jelly Roll? I can’t count the number of times I’ve seen a new quilter’s face cloud in confusion after hearing someone at their local quilt shop use the term “Jelly Roll.” This...

Beginner Quilt Patterns: 8 Easy Quilt Patterns to Get You Started We’re lucky. Today when we take that initial step to become a quilter, we have the internet there to answer every single one of...

From Happy Quilting: Tutorial for Block One of "Texas Monthly." Today we're reposting from The Happy Quilter! Melissa Corry will be completing and posting quilting tutorials for our Texas Monthly block of the month program. Look...

Selecting Quilting Fabric I love color! Because I'm a graphic designer and quilter, color plays a huge role in both my work and home lives, so it goes without saying that one of my favorite...

What makes a Modern Quilt? Four Characteristics Modern art gets a bad rap. Everyone loves and respects the Michaelangelos and Rembrandts of the art world, but modern artists get a fair bit of scorn and...