By Diane Harris, HQ Stitch Brand Ambassador I'm fortunate to be at the annual meeting of the Modern Quilt Guild this weekend in Nashville. QuiltCon is a four-day event with a juried quilt exhibit, vendors, classes, lectures and socials. It feels like drinking from a firehose. So with that in mind, just a quickie post [...]
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 started two new scrap quilts over the weekend, which meant that I thought much about what would work and what would not. I recently made a new dog, and I don't want that to happen again. (A dog is an ugly quilt. So ugly that it should never see the light of day.) [...]
I taught a class in Shenandoah, Iowa earlier this year, and my hostess treated me to the progress on her guild challenge quilt. It’s remarkable so I wanted to share it with you. She started by drawing these four fabrics randomly, and at first glance, you might think that was disheartening. Carolyn began with [...]
I'm making a scrappy quilt from vintage fabrics plus a few newer prints in my stash. It's based on an antique quilt I saw during Show & Tell at my guild recently. It's made of simple stitch-and-flip units like the one above. They're also called easy corner triangles. Ordinarily, you sew from corner to corner [...]
I’ve been making improvisational blocks on the HQ Stitch 510 by Handi Quilter in preparation for teaching a class on string piecing next week. It’s very simple piecing and it takes full advantage of the 510’s speed, one of this model’s most important features. The blocks are a variation of Log Cabin. I start with [...]
