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In a quilt design class taught by Helen Squire, one of the topics covered in the course was batting. She mentioned that a new eco-friendly batting had just been introduced. Someone asked what made it so “green,” and someone else offered up that it must break down in the landfill more readily than traditional polyester [...]

Welcome Spring and join the Yo-Yo Sisterhood of the Traveling Panties with Ami Simms! Ami hand-dyes her panties with beautiful colors every spring, and now she’s offered to do it for all of us. Check out Ami’s blog and website for the “full scoop” (pun intended!), and get your panties in the mail to her [...]

A little girl stayed with a neighbor lady while her mom visited the doctor. The neighbor was cleaning her house that morning and the little girl followed her around as she cleaned. “Does your mommy have a mop?” the neighbor asked the little girl. “Oh, yes.” the little girl replied. “Does your mommy sweep the [...]

A woman visited her sewing machine dealer to buy a spare part for her Bernina. “I was cleaning my machine, and when I removed the needle plate, there was this little pad underneath it. I tried to be careful taking it out, but it just fell apart in my hands. Do you have one in [...]

Use words or phrases as a jumping off point for design ideas. Think about representing the phrase in fabric, or how you can play on the words with an existing quilt block name. Think about the image the words bring to mind, and how you could interpret the image in fabric. Try starting with song [...]