“Spirals can be used in blocks and borders too. And they are great combined with other shapes to create gorgeous designs.”
by Mary Beth Krapil After this month’s HQ Live presentation, I thought you could use a little something for your studio. If you didn’t get a chance to see HQ Live yet you can watch it here. It is all about Threads, Needles and TENSION. Just the medicine you needed to cure your tension […]
Read MoreBy Mary Beth Krapil I’d like you to meet Allie Aller. She has been stitching, sewing, knitting, and writing since she was a child….and that child is alive and well in the joyful work she creates today in the field of crazy quilting and stained glass quilting. Allie quilts on an HQ Sweet Sixteen. She keeps […]
Read MoreBy Mary Beth Krapil I had the privilege of attending the Quilter’s Unlimited Show in Chantilly, VA last week. As I walked through the quilts, enjoying the wonderful creativity; this quilt caught my eye. It had an unusual embellishment that I had never seen used on a quilt before. That is an actual knitted […]
Read MoreBy Mary Beth Krapil EVERY quilt you make needs a label. A quilt is not finished without a label. You are the artist and an artist must sign their work. Your label preserves your quilts heritage. The future will thank you. Quilt labels are easy to make and there are many ways to do it. […]
Read MoreBy Mary Beth Krapil Here at Handi Quilter, we are all about finishing quilts. The whole concept of longarm machines is to make it easier and faster to creatively sew the three layers of a quilt together. Hand quilting is beautiful! It’s the way I started quilting. Let’s be honest, I’d have to live to […]
Read MoreA charming story, or could it be true? By Shelly Coddington, Willow Spring, NC If you give a quilter a fabric scrap – she will take it to her stash to see if there is anything she can match it up with; There she will see a bolt out of place and decide to rearrange […]
Read MoreQuilters put so much more than fabric and thread into quilts. So much love, so many memories, so much of our lives are stitched into every quilt. Because of this, every quilt tells a story. It might be short and sweet, or it might reach all the way back in history. Michele Vangraan is a […]
Read MoreDo you have a stash? Wait, what? Of course you do! Really. You can admit it, you’re among friends here. If you are a quilter, you have a stash. I mean, who can resist? The beautiful colors, they are our palette for creating. And the fibers: cotton, silk, polyester, metallic, Mylar! Wait, what? OH! […]
Read MoreThere 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 word. But it’s the truth. Spaces are divided into smaller geometric patterns […]
Read MoreThis is a continuation of last week’s blog post, an interview with the creative, Helen Godden. HQ: Of all your quilts which is your least fave? I don’t have a least fave. I love them, warts and all as they represent a good time, like a holiday happy snap. Some of them I am less […]
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