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
Quilt binding isn’t rocket science.
Posted by Wendy Breakstone Ladd | Filed under Quilting for Beginners, Sewing Fun, Shopping Fun
So I’ve started my first quilt for my son and my goal is to have it completed by Christmas. (There’s no way it will be done by Hanukah so we’ll celebrate Christmas this year.) I started looking for various ways to machine quilt the binding because there’s no way I’m going to hand-sew it on. [...]
Tags: beginner sewing techniques, bias tape, easy binding instruction, quilt binding, Quilting for Beginners
