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Cotton Quilt Batting

Cotton quilt batting is a traditional choice for the center of your quilt sandwich. Use these tips to choose cotton batting for your quilt.

Sewing Supplies as Carry-On Luggage

Many quilters ask: is it okay to take sewing supplies, like scissors, on a commercial airplane flight in the United States?

Trim Triangle Tips to Match-up Your Patchwork Edges

Trim excess tips from your triangles to help sew quilting patches together accurately.

Unconventional Quilting Tool Finds: Tapes

Our quilting forum members have found some handy uses for different types of tapes.

Quilting Template Tips

Quilting community members share their tips for making templates, often from unconventional supplies.

Unconventional Quilting Tool Finds: Needle Pullers & Other Needle Helpers

Quilting tips to help you get a grip on needles when they're hard to pull through fabric.

Trouble-Free Sewing Machine Tips

Members of the About.com Quilting Community share their favorite sewing machine tips.

Organize Long Strips of Fabric

Quilting tips from the About.com Quilting Community. Organize long strips of fabric.

Table Riser Tips from the Quilting Community at About.com

Adjusting the height of your cutting table will help keep your back from aching after a rotary cutting session.

How to Print the Free Quilt Patterns at About.com Quilting

Tips to help you print the free quilt patterns at About.com Quilting.

Keep Your Quilting Fabrics from Fraying in the Wash

Don't you just hate it when quilting fabrics fray in the wasy? Say goodbye to all those strings--use this quick tip to help keep your quilting fabrics from fraying when you prewash them.

Pressing to Set Seams

Use this quick pressing method to easily sew accurate quilt blocks and quilts.

Chain Piecing

Chain piecing is a technique that's used to speed up the process of sewing together quilting patches. Get through even a scrap quilts project much more quickly by using chain piecing to speed things up a bit.

How to Perform a Bleed Test on Your Cotton Fabrics

Some quilting cottons bleed, especially vivid colors like red and purple. Bleeding means the fabrics will lose dyes when they are washed and those dyes can stain the other fabrics in your quilt. Perform this easy bleed test on your cotton fabrics if you suspect they might bleed.

An Easy Way to Cut Fabrics on the Straight Grain

An easy way to locate the straight grain in a piece of quilting fabric.