Making Your First Quilt
Many experienced quilt makers will have made quilts by both machine and by hand. Some may have a preference, while others are happy to switch between the two methods intermittently. Although machine quilting is popular for quick results, it can be difficult to handle the material and may or may not provide the effect [...]
Read moreHand Made Quilts – The Ultimate Hug
As many of my regular readers know, we recently suffered a house fire and lost everything we owned.
The tragedy wasn’t so much about the loss of ’stuff’ but the effect of uproar on our family. Material possessions, after all, can be replaced, but the effect of watching your home, your safety zone, go up in [...]
Quilting, the History of a Handicraft
Quilting is a country craft as old as the hills themselves. For many people through the ages, quilting has a comforting and enigmatic combination of necessity, community, craftwork, and commemoration.
In colder climates, a woman’s quilting circle is still an opportunity for us to come together, to work on projects together, to talk over the [...]
