Quilting Tutorials

We are so excited that it is finally our day for Mister Domestic’s Catch and Release Project party! There have been so many amazing projects so far; it has been such an amazing group of creators to work with. If you haven’t checked them all out yet make sure you do! When we first saw the fabric, we immediately knew we needed to do one of our kid quilts to feature it. We love being outside in the mountains and at the lake and jumped at the opportunity to design a quilt based around that theme. The main feature on...

I used to avoid curves in any quilting project because I could never get them to line up correctly, especially the little ones. Things would always be screwy. I even tried buying facy feet, but nothing worked. I decided I was doomed to only sewing straight lines for the rest of my lift, until one day, everything changed. I saw a new technique I had never tried before. I don’t even remember what I was googling, but it was definitely quilting related. This technique was so simple and changed the way I looked at curves, and I can now happily...

For the most part, I am a self taught quilter. I got very basic instructions 15 years ago and just went for it. I immediately fell in love with the process, but have learned much along the way. I now look back on some of my earlier quilts and am so delighted at how far I’ve come. I also chuckle and shake my head a little at how I once thought those earlier quilts were so good. They were alright and are perfectly usable and fantastic for cuddling, but there are things I have learned since then that have allowed...

There are about a million different things out there you can buy to make your quilting life easier and it’s hard to know which ones to get. Let’s be honest, we really all want them all, right? Since we don’t have the budget or house space for that, Missy and I are going to share some of our favorite finds and the things we use all of the time. Some of the tools may be familiar, some may be new. We will show you what they are and how we use them so we can create quicker and make more...

One of my favorite parts of the quilting process is to sit down with a top after it’s all done and figure out my quilting plan. This is my opportunity to decide what I want to accent and make a focal point and how to best elevate the entire design. I’ve found that the basic principles I learned in my art classes many years ago are so important to quilts and a quilting plan as well. As you watch the video to see my process for creating a quilting plan for our Stacked pattern, I want you to pay attention...