Monthly Archives: May 2000
Rulers That Don’t Slip
| May 29, 2000 | Filled under Tips |
For accurate measuring and cutting, you can’t be chasing your ruler across the fabric. Here are four ways to make your rulers stay put.
Easy Blocks Help Make You More Creative
| May 29, 2000 | Filled under Book Reviews |
This week’s Book Review has taken a little vacation and will return next week.
Electric Quilt: Software For Better Design, Construction
| May 29, 2000 | Filled under Product Reviews |
Can a computer ever be an important quilting tool? If you have Electric Quilt 4.0, it can. From capturing your unique vision to creating aids to constructions to sharing your designs in print or online, Electric Quilt 4.0 helps you be more creative, more efficient…and have more fun.
You’re Throwing Away Free Applique Stabilizer!
| May 22, 2000 | Filled under Tips |
Laundry day can be a chance to add to your quilting supplies for free…here’s how.
Focus On The Colors You Love
| May 22, 2000 | Filled under Book Reviews |
A review of Color From The Heart Seven Great Ways To Make Quilts With Colors You Love by Gai Perry More info at Amazon.com If you believe that a better understanding of color theory would help your quilts, you’re probably right. If you get started learning the concepts with enthusiasm then get overwhelmed with details, you’re probably not alone. It could be the presentation and not the student. Gai Perry’s presentation of color theory is an easy to understand approach. If you master these seven basic lessons, you will greatly improve your quilts without getting bogged down in tedious explanations…
Applique Pressing Sheet Solves Pressing Problems
| May 22, 2000 | Filled under Product Reviews |
Have you ever ruined your ironing board with fusable web? Have you ever burned your fingers trying to fuse small pieces together? If you answered, “Yes!” to any of these questions, then this product is for you!
Make The Right Template For The Job
| May 15, 2000 | Filled under Tips |
There are templates, and then there are templates! Here’s a run-down of how to match the template material to the job at hand.
Picture Prints Make Striking Quilts
| May 15, 2000 | Filled under Book Reviews |
A review of Quilts With A View A Fabric Adventure by Faye Labanaris More info at Amazon.com Have you purchased a piece of fabric because it was so beautiful that you just had to take some of it home? Do you still have it in your stash because you couldn’t bear to cut it up? Quilts with a View will help you use that fabric without cutting it up into small, unrecognizable pieces. Faye wrote this book as a result of being inspired by a contemporary quilt that used a large piece of beautiful fabric. As she thought about the…
Flynn Multi-Frame Makes Quilting Fly
| May 15, 2000 | Filled under Product Reviews |
It’s light, it’s easy to use, it’s inexpensive — and it makes quilting less tiring. Now, if only it came in chocolate…
Spacing Basting
| May 8, 2000 | Filled under Tips |
Here’s the perfect spacer for your rows of basting…and it’s always handy.
Complex Shapes From Simple Ones
| May 8, 2000 | Filled under Book Reviews |
A review of Designing Tessellations The Secrets of Interlocking Patterns by Jinny Beyer More info at Amazon.com We can all picture a nine-patch design covering the surface of a quilt from border to border. But can you picture a shape that suggests a day lily blossom and that interlocks with itself to create a solid pattern with no background required? I thought not. Fortunately, if you’re up for the challenge of working with complex interlocking shapes, Jinny Beyer has written just the book you need. Designing Tessellations is a design book, a textbook and a workbook that will help you…
Janome MC3000 Makes Sewing Easier
| May 8, 2000 | Filled under Product Reviews |
I put my 1975 zigzag out to pasture and bought one of today’s new computerized breed. The feature list is impressive, but the most important benefit of my new machine is that now I enjoy sewing more.
Bent Safety Pins Will Save Your Aching Back
| May 1, 2000 | Filled under Tips |
If your safety pins don’t look like they’ve been run over by a truck, then you’re working too hard.
Seeing Fabric With A New Eye
| May 1, 2000 | Filled under Book Reviews |
Roberta Horton unlocks the mysteries of color, design, and construction as she explores the creative possibilities hidden in every fat quarter on your shelf.
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