Articles Index
Cotton Quilt Batting
Cotton quilt batting is a traditional choice for the center of your quilt sandwich. Use our tips to choose cotton batting for your next quilt.
Easy Way to Grip and Pull Needles
Learn easy ways to grip and pull needles when they're difficult to pull through fabric.
How to Set a Seam
Use this quick pressing method to set seams, making it easier to sew accurate quilt blocks and quilts.
Sewing Supplies Allowed in Carry-On Luggage
Many quilters ask: is it okay to take sewing supplies, like scissors and needles, on a commercial airplane in the United States? We have the answers.
Sewing Machine Care
Members of the About.com Quilting Community share advice about the methods they use to keep their sewing machines in top condition.
Do a Fabric Bleed Test
Some quilting fabrics bleed, losing dyes in the wash and staining other fabrics in your quilt. Perform this easy bleed test on before you use a 'suspect' fabric in a quilt.
Help Keep Your Quilting Fabrics from Fraying in the Wash
Don't you just hate it when quilting fabrics fray in the wasy? Use this easy method to say goodbye to all those strings.
How to Chain Piece
Chain piecing can be used to greatly speed up many piecing tasks when making a quilt. It's easy to chain piece, and we'll show you how.
An Easy Way to Cut Fabrics on the Straight Grain
Use this technique to locate the straight grain in a piece of quilting fabric.
How to Print the Free Quilt Patterns at About.com Quilting
Tips to help you print the free quilt patterns at About.com Quilting.
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.
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.