Blog following… I’ve added a few to my quilt list.
Posted by Wendy Breakstone Ladd | Filed under Blogs to Watch, Crafty Stuff, Quilting for Beginners, Sewing Fun, Tips & Techniques
Over the holidays it seemed that all the blogs I regularly follow were pretty quiet. So I had some great time to get my own sewing projects planned, read some great quilting books, and find some new blogs to start following. One of the blogs I found is Crazy Mom Quilts. I’m totally enamored with [...]
Tags: applique sewing, beginner sewing books, block patterns, fabric calculator, Free Motion Quilting, quilt blogs, sewing blogs, tips for beginning sewers
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
Welcome to the family my sweet new Bernina Aurora 440
Posted by Wendy Breakstone Ladd | Filed under Quilting for Beginners, Sewing Fun, Shopping Fun
Today I gave in – Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukah to ME! I’ve been considering an upgrade from my pretty much brand new Brother NX-450 (a very nice machine mind you) to the Bernina Aurora 440 Quilters Edition. Never in a million years when I purchased my first sewing machine only a few months ago [...]
Tags: beginner sewing books, Bernina Aurora 440, Free Motion Quilting, sewing
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
