Welcome to the 3rd week post of the 52 weeks of hot pads / quilted pot holders. Here are the list of past week’s posts in this 52 Weeks of Hot Pads Challenge: 1st Week : Simple Patch | Bias Binding 2nd Week : Diagonal Lanes | Quilt As You Go + Binding Tip I […] Read more…
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Week 2 of 52 Weeks of Hot Pads | Diagonal Lanes
Welcome to the second week post of the 52 weeks of hot pads / quilted pot holders. Click HERE to my first post. I thought it would be a great challenge for me to do a pot holder a.k.a hot pads every single week of 2019. I am planning on having it displayed in my […] Read more…
Week 1 of 52 Weeks of Hot Pads | Simple Patch with Bias Binding
Welcome to my first post of the 52 weeks of hot pads / quilted pot holders. I am a little late for kicking this off as the first week of 2019 has already just flown by. But… I did make this hot pad in the first week. Was just a little late on posting it […] Read more…
FMQ on a domestic machine: Avoiding Folds and Pleats
It is such a frustration when you are having fun quilting away and suddenly you realized that you’ve actually quilted folds and pleats on the backing. Or even more frustrating: you suddenly come across an area with a bubbly puffy surface on the quilt top with no way to ease the puff away except to […] Read more…
5 ways to stitch shapes together using English Paper Piecing method
I’d like to share with you in this post some of the ways that you can stitch together your basted English Paper Piecing blocks. Be it hexagons, diamonds or even square or any shape possible really :). This is following the series of English Paper Piecing Technique I have previously on the blog: 5 Ways […] Read more…
5 Ways to Baste English Paper Piecing Templates
There are a couple of well-known ways to baste English paper piecing templates. While there are no right or wrong, I’d like to point out some of the pros and cons of the template basting techniques based on my thoughts (some may have a different opinion). So in this post let’s go through a couple of […] Read more…
How to Cut English Paper Piecing Templates
Now, there is a couple of options for you to get english paper piecing templates and today I am sharing with you, one of the most accessible ways to prep them is to cut them by yourself. I designed the templates on the computer so that it is rotary cut friendly, print them out and […] Read more…
Free Motion Quilting Tips
If you are new to free motion quilting, you will most likely encounter some of these free motion quilting problems listed here. Hopefully, this guide will benefit you, allowing you to enjoy the most of the free motion quilting process. If you are a free motion quilting beginner and would love more help, Join my […] Read more…
Feather Quilting Tutorial + Free printable template
In this post, I will be sharing with you a simple tutorial how to free motion quilt feathers and examples of feather quilting. While there are many ways to go about quilting feathers, the method I am going to teach in this post is one of the methods that I have found that works for me […] Read more…
Sewcial Bee Sampler sew-along and quilting as you go
I am joining Sewcial Bee Sampler, a sampler sew-along hosted and designed by the talented Sharon Holland and Maureen Cracknell, which is already running beginning of February and will be finishing in August. You can find out more about the schedule here or here. We are already onto our 4th block out of 25 blocks […] Read more…