I'm making the Quiltville Mystery Quilt by Bonnie Hunter this year, along with tens of thousands of other quilters. I've done it twice before and I enjoyed it each time. This year's quilt is called Good Fortune, and it has some string pieced units. My HQ Stitch 510 made short work of them. I needed [...]
I really love rickrack. I add it to quilts whenever I can. Just about any excuse to add rickrack works for me! I've had a hard time managing its application, though. Pinning never works. It just doesn't stay in place. Positioning it as you sew doesn't work because then it's hard to get it placed [...]
Most traditional basket blocks have the basket oriented across the diagonal. Here are some examples. Sometimes you need a basket that sits at the bottom of the block instead. I designed a sampler quilt recently, and I wanted a basket with the base along the bottom, so I designed this one. [...]
If you start playing with the decorative stitches on your machine, the ideas for how to use them will begin to pile up. I’ve been meaning to make a new nametag for quilt events and the ease of the HQ Stitch 710 prompted me to get going. My instructions for how to make a quilter’s [...]
