I hope you've watched the story of Kelsey Cooley, the first of many in our And I Quilt campaign. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pQWYc6I1fY Now we're having a related giveaway on Instagram. Here's the scoop: The giveaway is for a foldable storage box for your quilting supplies. It's perfect for toting, organizing or stashing and it comes in our [...]
By Diane Harris, HQ Stitch Brand Ambassador Quilters hail from all walks of life and Handi Quilter is celebrating that fact with a new campaign, "And I Quilt." We've selected a group of 15 quilters across North America to show us who they are, what they do, and how they enjoy using their Handi Quilter [...]
By Diane Harris, HQ Stitch Brand Ambassador Most of my making is devoted to quilts, but the impending arrival of twin grandbabies has me sewing a few other things this summer. Today I embellished burp cloths with the HQ Stitch 510. Everyone knows that original cloth diapers make the best burp cloths, and it seems [...]
By Diane Harris, HQ Stitch Brand Ambassador I've been making receiving blankets for my soon-to-arrive twin granddaughters, and one of my favorites has a 24" Economy quilt block as its center. Making this blanket used a lot of the skills I've honed over many years, so I thought it would be make a good series [...]
By Diane Harris, HQ Stitch Brand Ambassador For the past several years, my friend Beth Helfter of EvaPaige Quilt Designs has hosted the Teal Mini Swap. Beth lost her mom to ovarian cancer much too soon, and this quilt swap raises funds for research into this disease. I've taken part in the Teal Mini Swap [...]
By Diane Harris, HQ Stitch Brand Ambassador When I started quilting 35 years ago, it was recommended (by whom I can't recall) that people prewash their fabrics before making a quilt. So I did. When I came home with a fabric purchase, I dutifully clipped off a corner as instructed by the Quilting Gods and [...]
By Diane Harris, HQ Stitch Brand Ambassador Fourth of July is almost here and it's time to enjoy some patriotic quilts. We begin with the mother of all patriotic quilts, America, Let It Shine by Sherry Reynolds from Laramie, Wyoming. This quilt won numerous prestigious awards about six years ago, including Best of Show at [...]
By Diane Harris, HQ Stitch Brand Ambassador I'm working on new class samples for a Pine Burr class I'm teaching in the fall, and I had several pieces I wanted to applique to a textured background. I've had consistently good performance on the HQ Stitch 710 for machine quilting, so that's where I turned again. [...]
By Diane Harris, HQ Stitch Brand Ambassador Last week I spent a few days in Kansas for the Kansas City Regional Quilt Festival in Overland Park. These days I take classes for just two reasons. To observe the approach of a well-known teacherTo get inside an artist's head I no longer take classes for something [...]
By Diane Harris, HQ Stitch Brand Ambassador These little stars are so easy and so much fun to make. I get into my scrap bin and cut the patches regularly so that I can make them whenever I have a few minutes. This block finishes at 4" when sewn into a quilt. It will be [...]
