Quilt Resources
Become more familiar with choosing batting, shears and needles, working with templates and marking tools and learn precuts to yardage conversion.
Making narrow bias fabric strips can be tricky. Bias bars, also called Celtic bars, may be used to help make narrow bias strips for stems.
Batting is the material used to give a quilt loft or thickness and warmth. Warmth is determined by fiber thickness and type.
Pins are used to hold fabric layers together before sewing. All pins should be non-corrosive and thin enough for use on appropriate fabrics.
A pair of good, sharp scissors and shears are mandatory. Shears have a small handle hole for the thumb and a large hole for several fingers.
Thimbles are useful for hand-sewing. New versions are available that will fit any finger on your hand. Thimbles save wear and tear on fingers.
Most modern hand quilters prefer the use of hoops to the confinement of large floor frames. Frames require a great deal of space.
Marking tools are required for several different quiltmaking tasks. Marking around templates for cutting requires a sharp, very fine-point ...
You have precuts, but the pattern you want to use lists yardage in the materials list. Or maybe you have yardage and the materials list ...
Basic sewing supplies, such as a measuring tape, a seam ripper, a pincushion, colored pencils, markers, graph paper ...
These projects are suitable for a quilter who has been introduced to the basics of cutting, piecing and assembling a quilt top.
Hand-sewing needles can be purchased in packages with all one size or with a variety of sizes. Needles are numbered 1 through 12.
For most piecing, good-quality cotton or cotton-covered polyester is the thread of choice. Inexpensive polyester threads are not ...
For machine piecing, a sewing machine is only required to sew a forward straight stitch. A reverse stitch can be used ...
Quilting templates are essential tools that help quilters achieve precise and consistent shapes when cutting fabric for quilt blocks.
Basic sewing supplies such as a measuring tape, seam ripper, pincushion, colored pencils, markers, graph paper, eraser, tracing paper ...