Inspiration

Each month, Barb Vlack coordinates a design challenge at www.doyoueq.com. This is an Electric Quilt software project, and each month’s challenge is designed to require the designer to learn a different feature of the software. This month’s challenge is to design a quilt using blocks of different sizes.  This requires not only choosing blocks that […]

Aurifil Thread’s Designer of the Month BOM for February is Marie-Claude Picon-Iperti of France. In this interesting block of the month, each designer’s block must be inspired by a rock music song. Marie-Claude’s block is called “Heavy Cross” and was inspired by the song of the same name performed by the rock band “Gossip.” If you are not familiar with the

  When I was at Quilt Festival in Houston in November, I made the jump and upgraded my sewing machine to this beauty, Bernina’s 750QE. I upgraded from my 25-year-old Bernina 1010, which has been an absolute workhorse, to this computerized marvel. A nine millimeter stitch, dual feed, built-in walking foot, 12 inch harp, stitch

I am participating in an embroidery blog hop organized by Madame Samm over at www.sewwequilt.com. Next to quilting, embroidery is my favorite needle art. To make things even more fun, the cheerleader for this blog hop is none other than my friend Jane, of Jane’s Fabrics. The blog hop features 95 bloggers who will post