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By Janet Wickell, About.com Guide to Quilting since 1999

How to Cut Patchwork Shapes

Friday June 22, 2007
Nearly all of the shapes you use in your quilting projects can be cut from long strips of rotary cut fabric. Squares and rectangles, triangles, diamonds and more are all ... Read More

Two Easy-as-Pie Baby Quilts

Wednesday June 20, 2007
I receive lots of Email from brand new quilters, and a good portion of the notes are from new grandmothers who want to make a quilt for a grandchild. If ... Read More

Singer Featherweight Photo Gallery

Monday June 18, 2007
Tiny by today's standards, when people see a vintage Singer Featherweight for the very first time they sometimes think the little sewing machines are toys, but they're actually dependable workhorses ... Read More

Book Review: Fast Fun and Easy Book Cover Art

Friday June 15, 2007
C&T Publishing's fast fun & easy series always lives up to its name by providing us with projects we can complete in a short time and explaining how to do ... Read More

Learn to Marble Fabric

Sunday June 10, 2007
Hand marbling is the art of floating paints on top of a thick solution, called size, manipulating those paints into patterns, then transferring the pattern to an object by placing ... Read More

Quilt Pattern: Which Way Do We Go?

Friday June 8, 2007
I designed this quilt to work with a brightly colored Alexander Henry border print that was passed along to me after the death of my sister, Carol. It took me ... Read More

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