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Quilt Along Series: Bias Binding, Hand Finishing & Washing

by Amy November 9, 2010

For our final week of the Beginning Quit Along Series we are going to talk about another method for binding a quilt and how to care for quilts. The baby quilt above was made with Charm Packs from the Bliss collection by Moda Cut a Bias Binding: This binding method is very similar to the [...]

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Quilt Along Series: Adding Binding (finished edge)

by Amy November 2, 2010

This week we’re going to talk about adding a machine-done binding to finish you project. Next week we’ll finish by talking about hand-done bias-binding. Pick whichever option works best for you! A neat binding makes the quilt look professional, crisp and finished. It can also provide a cute ‘frame’ for the design. When I first started [...]

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Crafty Paper Cornucopias and a Giveaway for Tape

by Marie November 1, 2010

This giveaway is now closed. Congrats to our 25 winners. Here are the comment numbers who won: 1, 2, 4, 12, 17, 21, 23, 24, 27, 30, 32, 33, 37, 39, 41, 47, 50, 52, 58, 63, 64, 68, 72, 86, 87. I will contact you all to receive your Scotch(R) Double Sided Tape! This [...]

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Decorating for Fall with a Corn Husk Wreath

by Marie October 28, 2010

I fell in love with this Corn Husk Wreath tutorial from How Does She? the second I saw it. Ever since I made tamales with my brother-in-law and had an extra bag of corn husks, I’ve been waiting for a project to use them. You only need one bag of corn husks (found at almost [...]

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Quilt Along Series: Sewing the Quilt Together

by Amy October 26, 2010

We are now ready to combine the three layers of our quilt sandwich and ‘quilt’ our project. There are a variety of methods for quilting. I’m going to focus on machine quilting, but we’ll discuss others as well. Basting: Basting is a very important step in the quilting process. It seems tedious, but doing it [...]

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How To Decoupage Halloween Pumpkins

by Little Birdies October 14, 2010

Eek! My son just got a tarantula for his birthday this week, so now his arachnophobic mother has spiders on the brain. I think I see them everywhere. That was the inspiration for this decoupage pumpkin, covered in (once again) book pages. What can I say? I can’t get enough of the book pages these [...]

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Quilt Along Series: Sewing on Borders

by Amy October 12, 2010

Today we are going to talk about sewing borders onto a quilt. It’s important to have borders that help keep your quilt square – otherwise your pieced top will be more difficult to ‘quilt’ and it will not lie flat – instead it will have little ripples in the edges of the quilt. For this [...]

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Quilt Along Series: Cutting Fabric

by Amy September 28, 2010

Cutting fabric. Does it scare the heck out of you? Hopefully from this day on you will wield a rotary-cutter with confidence. Rotary cutters have made cutting fabric much more accurate and efficient. I love my rotary cutter. Be careful though – those blades are sharp. Make it a habit to keep the safety cover [...]

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Create a Book Page Table Runner

by Little Birdies September 16, 2010

Autumn was in the air today and I felt the urge to add a little fall decor to my home. I had a few fall picks and candles, but I wanted a table runner to arrange them on, and I didn’t want to spend any money. Here’s what I came up with. I call it [...]

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Organizing Drawers with Recycled Shoe Boxes

by Marie August 26, 2010

I love to use empty shoe boxes for all kinds of storage. They are a perfect little size, fairly sturdy, and a great way to recycle! I mainly use them to help organize my kid’s bedroom drawers. Socks, underpants, and even dance clothes all fit perfectly inside these handy dandy shoe boxes. They just make [...]

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