Blog Following, Part 2
Posted by Wendy Breakstone Ladd | Filed under Blogs to Watch, Free Motion Quilting, Quilting for Beginners, Tips & Techniques
About a week ago, I wrote my first Blog Following post, highlighting two blogs that I had recently started following. Since the holidays and New Years slowed a few of my favorite bloggers down, I spent time utilizing their blogrolls to look for new reading material. (I’ve stopped following a few folks who only blog [...]
Tags: easy binding instruction, easy quilt patterns, quilt blogs, Quilting for Beginners, sewing blogs
Santa, sewing, and the zipper foot topstitch.
Posted by Wendy Breakstone Ladd | Filed under Blocks & Patterns, Blogs to Watch, Free Motion Quilting, Quilting for Beginners, Tips & Techniques
Santa was very good to me and my family this year. We all got gifts we wanted and we were all healthy. It was a great day and the first Christmas that my three (and a half) year old really understood — at least from the “Santa perspective.” On Saturday I headed to my favorite [...]
Tags: easy binding instruction, Free Motion Quilting, Kaffe Fassett Fabric, modern block patterns, quilt books, Quilting for Beginners, quilting workshops, Thomas the Tank fabric
Free motion inspiration from a Swiss Christmas cookie.
Posted by Wendy Breakstone Ladd | Filed under Blocks & Patterns, Crafty Stuff, Free Motion Quilting, Quilting for Beginners, Tips & Techniques
A good friend sent my family a care package for the holidays and in it was one of the best cookie treats I’ve ever tasted. (Thanks Amy!) The only way to describe is like this: When you walk into an ice cream parlor that makes waffle cones and the smell is to die for. Sweet, [...]
Tags: block patterns, Brazeli Cookies, Free Motion Quilting, inspiration
Thread tension not so fun?
Posted by Wendy Breakstone Ladd | Filed under Free Motion Quilting, Quilting for Beginners, Sewing Fun
I’ve been lucky enough to have not experienced the dreaded thread tension problems that so many people struggle with (to date). But given that I’m about to embark on my first free-motion quilting project for my son’s Thomas the Tank quilt (more later on my first quilt) I’ve been gearing up for the inevitable broken [...]
Tags: beginner sewing, Free Motion Quilting, thread tension, tips for beginning sewers
Who’s reading what…
Posted by Wendy Breakstone Ladd | Filed under Free Motion Quilting, Quilting for Beginners
One of my most favorite things to do in the blogesphere is to follow links from Blogrolls. I always find little gems that might not be the mainstream, but often have inspiring designs, creative tricks, and EASY PROJECTS. (I’m into “easy”.) Some days I realize that I’ve spent a couple of hours just scouring blogs [...]
Tags: beginner sewing, block patterns, Free Motion Quilting, quilt designs, sewing blogs
