Off the Bolt
Stories, stitches, and the little wins between seams ~ pull up a chair.
Quilters Lifestyle
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The Shirt You Actually Sew In
There is the shirt you wear to guild and the shirt you wear at the machine, and they are rarely the same shirt. The machine shirt has to survive an iron running at cotton for three hours, a lap full of half-square triangles, and the cat. It cannot be fussy. It cannot be heavy. It has to be the one you forget you have on until somebody reads it out loud in the fabric store and laughs.
Latest Articles
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Good Morning, Quilters: Here Are Today's Announcements
Remember the crackle of the morning announcements at school, the lunch menu, the lost mittens, the reminder about picture day? Every quilter runs her own version before the first cup of coffee is finished, and the message is always the same: the machine is waiting. Wake Up and Quilt is the collection for that first bright moment of the day, bold words in rainbow lettering and sunny scenes that make it very hard to go back to bed. Please rise for today's announcements. -
Mother Nature Has Been Strip Piecing for Millions of Years
Stand at the edge of the Painted Desert and look at those hills, banded in rose, cream and rust, one careful stripe after another, and any quilter will say the same thing: somebody has been strip piecing. Traveling Stitches is our collection for quilters who see fabric in every landscape. The designs travel through beloved states and, best of all, through our national parks, each one rendered in stitched texture as if the whole scene had been appliquéd by hand. -
The Patchwork Flock Seating Chart, and Why Chaos Finch Sits Nearest the Door
Anyone who has organized a sew day knows the hardest job is not the potluck sign-up. It is the seating chart. Put the wrong two quilters side by side and nobody finishes a block all afternoon. The Patchwork Flock is our gathering of quilt hair birds, each with a wild crest, a big personality and a quilt hair don't care attitude, and after careful thought we have worked out exactly where everyone sits.
