Quilting Tips, Tutorials & Inspiration

Best Small Irons for Quilting Updated: Apr 20   A good iron can take a quilting project from mediocrity to perfection, leaving you with a quality immaculate product. The time you spend crafting a unique design,...

Best Fabric Cutting Tools for Quilters Having the right tools for the job helps in any endeavor, but it's especially true when it comes to quilting. Whether you're working on simple squares or complex cuts,...

How to Make String Quilts Scrap fabric piles tend to grow over time when you're a prolific quilter, so finding projects to complete with them such as string quilts helps you reduce clutter in your...

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...

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...