When you’re quilting, are you usually as happy with the back of the quilt as you are with the front? How about when you’re doing embroidery? Most of the time, nobody’s going to see the back of an embroidery project – unless you’re using…
The Happy Quilting Collection started out as a few designs that were created to quilt the Happy Table Runner. Here’s a photo journey through quilting the quilt The first step in any quilting project is to layer the back, the batting and the quilt top.…
Pencil case, makeup bag, catch all for the bottom of your purse, zippered purses come in all kinds of sizes and have an infinite number of uses. It turns out that the Extra Large Panel from the Happy Popups Collection is an ideal size…
So your free motion quilting isn’t as great as you’d like it to be and you’re planning on making the Feather Fancy quilt. What are you going to do about it? Use the Transformation Quilting Collection to quilt it in the hoop of course!…
Jasmine and I were out and about the other day and saw a Christmas wreath made out of ornaments. What could be more fun than making one for our new home? If you want to make one too, here’s how to do it! What…
Pucker free embroidery is very possible – and it’s easy to achieve. The key is to make the background that you are stitching on as stiff as possible – without making it as stiff as a board in your finished project. There are 4 things…
I am very happy to say that my new studio is now 99% unpacked and ready to work in! Outside of the closets (check out the insides here) I have two kinds of shelving – display shelving that I wanted to look good and…
As I’ve been unpacking everything into my new studio I came across some quick and easy projects from a few years ago that make excellent Holiday gifts. Below you will find some tricks of the trade to ensure success when stitching. Embroidered Gift Card…
My new studio contains two built in closets that I elected to not have the standard shelving built in. Instead, I wanted to be able to build floor to ceiling shelves that would allow me to store a lot more stuff. It seems there…
Since releasing the Feathered Christmas with Embroidered Appliqué collection a couple of weeks ago, I’ve received a number of emails about the quilting on it. The quilting is free motion – done by me! The biggest concern seems to be – I can’t quilt…
