DreamWeaver's Quilts Quilt Epiphany Weblog

I treated myself today, and spent a little while machine quilting on a small quilt. Many of my projects these days are small-ish, and I’m really enjoying the machine quilting breaks that come along every few days. (If you’ve been following along, you’ll probably be able to figure out why most of my projects these [...]

I have this love/hate relationship with binding. I love it, because it means that I’m almost done with the quilt, but when I get to that point, there are all these variables that have to be thought about, worked out, tried, discarded, tried again, and still when you put the binding on the actual quilt, [...]

…and in here. I think summer must get to everyone. Some of the blogs I read have gone quiet, or a bit slower anyway, and now it’s hit here too. It’s just too hot most days to be motivated to do much of anything! Adding in all the rest of the Life stuff means my [...]

Whenever I’ve shown Inchies or talked about them to quilter friends, almost the first question out of everyone’s mouth is “What do you do with them?” I mean, really, where’s everybody’s imagination? I’ve had a plan all along: Sure, you can make them, trade them with other quilters if you’re so inclined, keep them stashed [...]

I did a small bit of machine quilting today, and I thought I’d share some quick tips to make machine guided grid quilting easier. I’m making a small background quilt to display Inchies, so all I needed was some straight line quilting to hold the layers together and create some visual interest. On a small [...]

When we got the bad news about how much stuff the moving company estimated that we have in our house, I culled books from the library mercilessly. Quilting books were not exempt, either. I also thought that the many back issues of American Quilter, Quilter’s Newsletter Magazine, McCalls Quilting, and a couple of others needed [...]

It seems like all my tips are about storage and organization. Can you tell it’s a hot topic in my current small, cramped quarters? I buy stabilizer for machine embroidery off the bolt at my LQS, and I can’t see folding it up when I get it home to store it like I would if [...]