Ever thought about which quilt batting is best for your quilt? You have a quilt top done, and just before we get to quilt it, we need to make a quilt sandwich, and then the batting comes to mind. Which one should you use?
How do you choose the correct and best quilt batting?
In this post, we’ll discuss different types of batting and I’ll give you some suggestions to which quilt batting you should use.
How to know when to buy yards and yards of fabrics for backing?
Do you stash fabrics that are specifically for backing a quilt?
They need to be a large piece for sure and buying large pieces of fabrics is risky.
In the end, it may seems that all of your quilt doesn’t match the backing fabric you have in stash. Have you been in this situation before?
And if there are any fabrics, the fabric is not enough to back a quilt. Ughhh.
That’s me. Cause I rarely ever buy more than 3 yards of the same fabric. Not even on when they’re on sale.
I think 3 yards is the max.
Unless it’s a white solid. I buy those on bolts.
In today’s post, I’ll let you know how I get around with that and share with you some of the ways to work mix matching fabrics to make a quilt back large enough for your quilt.
There is always room for improvement.
And that has always been my motto for life. And I am always trying to simply improve little by little. Including my sewing skill.
In this post, I am going to be sharing with you 6 tips to improve accuracy for patchwork quilt making, so that you can be happily sewing blocks together into rows, and have those blocks all the same exact size.
Let me know if you have more tips to share. The comment box is always open for new input.
I have always quilted my own quilt ever since my first quilt. The reason is because I fell in love in free-motion quilting the minute I got the hang of it. It is therapeutic, and a lot fun at the same time. Well, let’s save that story for later, as I know you come here for the tips – not the “why I free-motion quilt story” – so.. we’ll save that for later.
In this post, I list down 5 very important tips before you even start to free-motion quilt in order for you to experience a better go at free-motion quilting on your own domestic machine. Well, let’s get strapped and right to it:
Are you always frustrated with failure to get the right exact closure while you join the binding in the round?
Doesn’t it seems to be so hard to estimate?
Well, don’t estimate no longer, I have a binding tip that will solve that very problem.
Here is a tip which I use all the time for joining the binding tape in a round.
This method is definitely my go to and never has failed on me yet. Give it a try!
Hugs
Amira