How Many Squares Can You Cut From A Fat Quarter?
Find yourself googling “how many squares in a fat quarter” or how to sub-cut a fat quarter? Here are two tables to help you and a free printable cheat sheet!
Tips & Tricks
Quilty Custom Kindle Lockscreen
Do you like to take your hobbies and combine them? Me too! I figured out how to make my kindle lockscreen quilty and I’m sharing how you can too!
How to Use Your Scraps with Leaders and Enders with Fritsch in Stitches
Your scraps are the secret to something most quilters want: more finished quilts. By taking a little time to sort and prepare them, you can make small progress between your big projects by using them as leader/enders. Learn how in this weeks’ guest blog from Kaitlyn of Fritsch in Stitches!
Sorting Techniques for Quilting Scraps
To make the most of quilting scraps, it’s important to have a system for storing and organizing your small and leftover fabric pieces. In this blog post, we’ll explore four sorting techniques for quilting scraps that are easy and efficient!
Free Printable Quilt Project Tracker and Organizers
Do you struggle keeping your quilting projects organized? Looking for a printable quilt project tracker and planner? I have a solution for you!
4 Rules for Managing Quilting Fabric Scraps
I’ve been working on a lot of quits lately and let’s be honest: they generate lots of fabric scraps. I recently transitioned to a color sorting system for my fabric scraps using a toy organizer I grabbed off Amazon. This storage and sorting system has been a game changer for me and really allows me to see what colors of scraps I have a lot of. But I still had to implement some rules to manage my scraps so they don’t get out of hand because I find that I like to keep tiny scraps that I will never ever use and then get very overwhelmed.
Top 5 Tips for Easily Organizing Quilting Fabric Scraps
If you love to sew or quilt, let’s face it: Scraps Happen. It really is inevitable since every project you make creates fabric scraps of some sort. One of the biggest challenges is how to store and organize all these scrappy fabric leftovers as they accumulate. Some sewers keep only the larger pieces, while others choose to save even the tiniest piece. Everyone has their own system, but the challenge stays the same: how to keep the scraps in order and easily accessible.
How to Finish Your Quilt with Rounded Corners
Let’s learn how to add rounded corners to a quilt! I will walk you through the easy steps to trim your quilt and bind your quilt with a rounded corner.
Spring Picnic Quilt Block Tutorial (and Free Quilt Pattern)
This free pattern is one that uses a layer cake and charm pack. It comes together quickly and is a fast and easy precut friendly quilt pattern. Plus I’ve walked you step by step through making the blocks in this tutorial.
Quilt Batting – What is it & when different batting types are used?
Quilt batting or wadding is used in a variety of sewing and quilting crafts. The middle of your “quilt sandwich” is called quilt batting. It serves as an insulator between fabrics and quilts’ stuffing, making them warm and sometimes weighty.