DreamWeaver's Quilts Quilt Epiphany Weblog

This week has been a much better one, thanks to some cooler weather and fewer taxi duties for the kids for me. I spent last weekend rebuilding my Personal Portals website to launch my web design services (yes, I do all my own web design and development, and I’ve decided to start hiring out freelance. [...]

My Machine Quilting—Master the Basics class is quite popular, and I’ve often heard requests for a “take-it-home” version: a video, a book, or something of that nature. I’m pleased to announce the upcoming release of Machine Quilting—Master the Basics, a complete beginning machine quilting workshop on CD. Everything you need to know about learning to [...]

When you’re really putting your sewing machine through the paces, and it’s performing perfectly. It’s a great WFF when your sewing machine is performing up to expectations, and nothing will frustrate you more than fighting with it if it’s not working properly. Any number of things can go wrong, but here’s a few things you [...]

Here’s a pic of the little quilt I finished up this morning: I appliquéd the cat after the quilt was basted together with the batting and backing, just as an experiment. I basted the layers with water soluble thread, then appliquéd the prepared pieces onto the quilt through all three layers, free-motion quilting them at [...]

Often in my workshops, students will ask what type of sewing machine I have, and why I like it. I am a Pfaff girl, have been for 16 years now, and I’ve owned 5 different Pfaff models. My first Pfaff was a 955, I think, which my mother has now and still uses. Currently, I [...]

Here’s the view from my quilting chair: I’ve just started down the long road to stipple the background of a king-size quilt. I’m hoping to get the stippling done in about 12 days and I’ll probably go through about 3,000 meters of thread.

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 [...]