This week much of the US had a final, (we hope), blast of Winter and that can only mean Spring will be here, for good, soon. Here in North Carolina the tulips are not yet blooming. We do have daffodils. The daffodils come up way before Spring decides to really take hold. They brave the […]
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Circles are a popular shape in quilt design, and for good reason. They are versatile, easy to work with, and can be used to create a wide variety of effects. I recently attended the AQS quilt show in DesMoines, IA and I noticed circles were evident in a great number of lovely quilts. Let’s take […]
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International Quilt Festival in Houston, TX for 2022 is in the books. Festival, as it is affectionately known, is the big show each year in Houston. It is held at the end of October / beginning of November. Quilters from all over the globe come together to celebrate the art of quilting. They enjoy classes, […]
Read MoreQuilt shows are an awesome place to get inspiration for all sorts of quilty topics. Color combinations, piecing, applique, borders, new techniques, and my favorite: quilting designs. Quilt show inspiration for you I was working in the Handi Quilter booth at the Original Sewing and Quilting Expo in Raleigh, NC at the beginning of August. […]
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There is a whole bunch of math that goes into creating a quilt. Geometry too. Those are scary words to a lot of quilters. Some think MATH is a four-letter word. Others will go screaming from the room at the mention of the “M” word. So the question is: Is a quilt Art or Math? […]
Read MoreEvery time you quilt you are creating texture. The very nature of what makes up a quilt, three layers, with the center being a compressible fiber, means that when you stitch the three layers together you will compress that inner layer with your stitches and create texture. The location of the stitches will be lower […]
Read MoreThere’s a lot of talk on quilting social media these days about texture. Just try a search on #TextureTuesday and you’ll see what I mean. What is texture, anyway? Dictionary.com says this: Texture was what drew me to quilting. I have no quilters in my family. My mother taught me to sew at a young […]
Read MoreWe are so lucky at Handi Quilter to have a gallery that features collections from exceptional quilters from all around the world. And right now, our gallery is filled with the lovely quilts of Melissa Sobotka. Melissa achieves a photo-realistic style of quilting by appliqueing raw edge pieces of batik fabrics. Then she enhances with […]
Read MoreLast week we checked in on Diane Harris to see how she was coming along. Seems she is having more adventures in longarm quilting and learning a lot while having fun. We looked at her recent blog post, Hugs and Kisses: What I Learned. If you didn’t read it, do it now. If you missed […]
Read MoreNew HQ Gallery Collection, Do You See What I See? by Handi Quilter National Educators Pareidolia – noun – the imagined perception of a pattern or meaning where it does not actually exist, as in considering the moon to have human features. That’s the definition according to dictionary.com. The Handi Quilter National Educators were issued […]
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