Don’t miss this evening’s Wednesday Night Live! webcast brought to you by C&T Publishing. Author and teacher Laura Nownes will teach a beginning class on creating a quilt block. Laura, along with Diana McClun, wrote the classic book Quilts! Quilts!! … Read More ...
TAP™ Transfer Artist Paper is winner
Lesley Riley’s Transfer Artist Paper
is a winner of the 2011 Craft & Hobby Association – Winter Innovations Showcase. Has anyone tried this yet? If so do share your experience with it. I found this browsing over at C&T. Here … Read More ...
Free pattern: Floral Impressions quilt
Judy Best designed this quilt to highlight Rowan’s Flower Market collection. I love the watercolor look of these fabrics. Get the Floral Impressions quilt pattern at Fabric Trends project page. Go straight to the PDF.
Ed. note 2/19/2013:… Read More ...
Moda May Giveaways
Announcing the Moda May Giveaway Week One over at Kim’s Everything Etsy. You have until midnight tonight EST to enter. Go here for details. And if you missed this one, there will be more giveaways each week in May!… Read More ...
Spoonflower Black and White fabric contest
This week at Spoonflower, the Fabric of the Week contest theme is black and white. With 418 entries, you’ll be clicking through 24 pages to see them all. Go here to get started and here to see the entire … Read More ...
Time to sign up for fabric swap
Karen from Sew many Ways is hosting anther fabric swap. This time around her focus is on red and white. You’ll trade 5-inch squares of your chosen fabric with however many people sign up to swap. You have until May … Read More ...
Tutorial: Patchwork Pillow 101
Blair from Wise Craft provides simple step-by-step instructions for making this patchwork pillow. Along with gorgeous photos, she shares a technique she swears changed her life. Go to the tute.… Read More ...
Tutorial: Sewing case with removable pouches
Linda from Buzzing and Bumbling shows how she made this pretty and practical roll-up travel case to hold quilting supplies on the go. The pouches are detachable, so you only take out what you need right then. Brilliant! Get the … Read More ...
Kweli’s African American fabrics
Kweli from African American Fabrics designs fabulous fabric with African American sensibilities. My favorite from her collection on Spoonflower is Bottle Tree, circled in the photo. She explains the folklore behind the bottle tree on her Post: Bottle Tree Fabric … Read More ...
Tutorial: Fabric postcards
This is an older post, but still worthy. In it Becky from Patchwork Posse teaches how to make fabric postcards from choosing stiffener to finishing. For quilters, postcards are a perfect way to use up scraps. Get the tute.… Read More ...
A call to play nicer – Mod v Trad revisited
Kristen from Sew, Mama, Sew! extends an olive branch (or should I say quilting needle) to Sandi Walton of Piecemeal Quilts. Sandi is the author of the now infamous blog post where she used the “D” word in reference … Read More ...
Craft swap “Initially Yours” at Cherry World
It’s a Very Cherry World is hosting a craft swap Initially Yours. She describes it,
… Read More ...Participants will be paired with another person and, what you will do is, make something for them using only their first initial. (ex., S
Soul Mama, a Fresh giveaway and discount
Soul Mama is hosting a Fresh Squeezed fabric giveaway. Also to celebrate Mother’s Day Fresh Squeezed is offering 20% off entire purchase through May 11th. Get details here.… Read More ...
Tutorial: Ties for little guys
Have some stash you need to burn so you can buy more quilting fabric? Well I have an idea. Make a tie for the special little boy in your life. Go to the tutorial.… Read More ...
Tutorial: Patchwork Scrap Map
Kate from See Kate Sew made this divine patchwork map of the US from fabric scraps. Go HERE to see how she did it.
Via Diane Gilleland at Craftzine.… Read More ...