Tuesday
February 14th
2006

Basting Spray?

I get questions about this stuff all the time. You know, I’ve been quilting long enough to have seen the beginning of the basting spray movement. I bought some, I tried it, and I don’t like it. I used basting spray on a small lap quilt project when it was first introduced. It was very simply quilted, with a straight line grid across the quilt that extended into the borders, so it only took me about 6 hours to quilt the whole thing. Even allowing for the fact that in the last 8-10 years, improvements have surely been made to the stuff, here are some things you should think about before using it on your project. Read the rest of this entry »

Quilting with Patches

No, we’re not using fabric, here. Patches is my cat, and he keeps me company while I quilt. Well, okay, provides distraction while I quilt, to be a little more accurate. He’s a sturdy mixed breed cat (read “overgrown mutt” weighing in now at about 17.5 pounds, down from a fat 19.5!) Read the rest of this entry »

Warm Up for Machine Quilting

I’ve been doing a lot of work on my websites in the last couple of weeks (maybe you could tell!), which means I’ve been doing less quilting. Well, the website stuff is fun too, but… Anyway, the point is that since I’ve been doing less machine quilting, I find it’s even more important to warm up Read the rest of this entry »