Dear Quilty Quilty, you were my favorite quilting magazine. For two years, I faithfully brought your magazine and watch your quilting vlog. I even asked for a subscription to your magazine for Christmas. You were entertaining and hip while educating the masses on quilt basics and to some extent sewing machine basics. I learned a […]
P is for Paper Pieced Blocks
Greetings: I have a love/hate relationship with paper piecing. I hate that it takes forever to piece a paper pieced blocked. One wastes more fabric. One has to be careful with printing the paper pieced designs on different printers because one may end up with the wrong size design. One has to figure out how […]
O is for Organizing Fabrics
Greetings: After accumulating various colors of threads, different yardage of fabric, various rulers, and books, one realizes that some sort organization is needed. Here are five tips: Keep like things together, keep even more similar things even closer together. This is especially true with fabric. All of the fabric should be together from there, group […]
N is for “Next Generation”
Greetings: Yesterday, I went to Hancock’s Fabric Store “Going out of Business” sale and while I was stocking up on buttons and zippers, I tinge of sadness and worry built up inside me. Hancock and Joanne will no longer be in my town. I will now have to travel at least 30 minutes, across the […]
M is for Machine
Greetings: Right now, my favorite machine is my sewing machine. I have Juki (HZL-F6000). I love it. I was hesitant when I brought it because I never heard of Juki and at the time I wanted a Janome or a Baby Loc. However, I wanted more bang for my buck. I believe my […]
L is for Light Box
Greetings: I needed a light box because I had to copy a design from paper to fabric. When I priced light boxes, they were out my price range ($100). I was only going to use it once. Okay, maybe more than once, but it still was not worthy of the hefty price tag. I was […]
K is for Keeping Record
Greetings: I think one should keep a quilter’s (sewer’s Log) or a Diary. Just like writers like to keep a log of when they write, where they write, and how many words they write on a given day. I think quilters (sewers) should do the same: Keep a record on long they work on a […]
J is for Jazz
Greetings: Jazz. I love jazz, especially from the 1930s to 1940s. I love listening to Duke Ellington to Charlie Parker to Dizzy Gillespie. I pretty much only listen to jazz while I sew. I also like listening to Latin Jazz while I sew too. I do like listening to other music, however when I listen […]
I is for Isacord
Greetings: Since I am going to use green Kaffe Fassett fabric for the background and I want the back stitches to merge with the background, I am going to use this green Isacord thread in the bobbin. The Isacord thread is called “Grasshopper”. I may use another Isacord thread for as a secondary background […]
H is for Happenstance
Greetings: If you are not familiar with the word happenstance, it means “something that happens by chance”. Happenstance happens in every one’s life. Here is my story with happenstance and quilting. One day last summer, I gave into my impulses and brought some Pinmoors early one morning. Pinmoors are small, colorful gelled pieces that you […]