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I have to be honest, I had always looked at beautifully hand-quilted quilts and thought, “Well, that’s just crazy.” Although I loved the look feel and texture that hand quilting added to a project, I never saw myself doing such intricate work. The funny thing is, I love hand embroidery. Ah, the slow pace, the relaxation of having a project to work on at all times (I always have a hand embroidery project in my purse); and the satisfaction of finishing something that only required a simple…

A quilt back does not have to be boring. Sharing my 18 ideas for a pieced backing for quilts to make the design process a little easier.

We're back in the studio with Corey Yoder of Coriander Quilts to learn how she hand quilts! Corey grew up helping her mother and grandmother hand quilt

I've been having so much fun quilting the Controlled Chaos scrap quilt. :-) I'm doing some big stitch quilting and I love the way it looks and the texture it adds! I've got a series of hand quilting videos. basic hand quilting quilting without marking big stitch quilting (what I'm doing for this quilt and

Charm About You by Lucy Brennan is all about patchwork and quilting, sewing, embroidery and fabric. Featuring projects, patterns and free tutorials.

Sarah Fielke is a remarkable and creative maker. She has been working with Aurifil threads for years and was among our first designers. A tireless thread champion, Sarah is always ready to try some…

I finally finished my big, grown up sized quilt! It takes awhile to make a quilt like this for me. Here is how things went- First you decide on what fabrics to buy, then you look at the fabrics for many months until you finally start to make some cuts. Then you piece some of […]

Partner, I thought you might like a closer look at the hand quilting. The thread is 3 strands of embroidery floss (from 3 different colours) mixed together to keep the colours changing as I sewed. This is the first thing I've hand quilted (yes, I know, a big risk!!!) and I'm pretty proud of it. Blogged I used these great stitchalong tutorials: contented.typepad.co.uk/contented/stitch-along/

Orange Peel quilt pattern and tutorial using big stitch hand quilting with perle cotton. Fabric is from the Canyon collection by Kate Spain.

In this video I show how to do more intricate hand quilting without marking. I get really nervous about marking on my quilts. Temporary markers (like water-soluble pens) disappear quickly in the humidity here. Chalk marks disappear quickly in the time a quilt gets moved around on my sofa while I quilt it. And the idea of