Transform Your Quilting Starts Today, Beautiful Butterfly Bliss, Make Improv String Quilts with Teresa Duryea Wong, Garden Party Down Under Month 8 Patterns, A Conversation with HollyAnne Knight, Collapsible Market Baskets, A Thread Painted Puzzle

It Starts Today!

There is so much out there to learn. Fortunately, you don’t have to be an expert in everything to create beautiful quilts. But quick important ideas can accelerate the beauty of your quilting projects without taking a huge amount of time.

So beginning today, we want to Transform Your Quilting. Every Monday and Wednesday we will be featuring two lessons. One that is a technique from a show and the other a quick tip from some of our best instructors. That's four great ideas in one week. We will also be featuring a blog where we will keep track of all the tips and techniques for you.

The secret to great quilts isn’t to learn a thousand things, but to learn a few things and take action. What do you have to do? Make sure you are a Star Member. Then, open your newsletters and follow the links. The lessons that day will be less than 15 minutes of your time. It’s fast learning and lots of fun.

Stringing Up Lots of Great New Projects

Teresa Duryea Wong shares tips for making a fun and ‘low stress’ improv string quilt in our latest show. Join us as she discusses the importance of collecting a variety of shades, prints, and scales of one color for your work. Then, it’s on to cutting strips with no ruler and sewing with no ¼” seams to build less precise shapes for that bit of wonkiness.

Learn from Teresa by watching Improv String Quilts and a History of Japanese Textiles with Teresa Duryea Wong | Using Appliqué to Mask a Mistake.

More Vases, Shooflys, and Dresden Plates for Everyone!

For Month 8 of Garden Party Down Under you'll be adding to your collection of blocks by creating another set consisting of an appliquéd vase, Shoofly blocks, and a Dresden Plate. There are THREE downloads for this month including:

Patterns for Blocks 12 and 13
Instructions for Block 12
Instructions for Block 13

Again, as with the Month 7 patterns, the Dresden Plate pattern download can be found in Month 4. And as always don't forget to click the video tab and watch Barbara Black's helpful video for tips on working with these blocks.