Off the Bolt
Stories, stitches, and the little wins between seams ~ pull up a chair.
Off the Bolt
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Your Quarter Inch Seam Is Probably Lying To You
Let us have a gentle conversation about something that has quietly ruined more blocks than any other single thing in quilting. Your quarter inch seam. -
Spring Color Trends for Your Quilting Studio
You didn't plan to spend forty-five minutes staring at fabric bolts this morning. And yet ~ here you are, completely rearranging your mental project list because someone pulled a length of the most perfect soft sage green and now nothing else will do. Sound familiar? -
Quilt Hair, Don't Care ~ Meet the Flock That Lives Here
Every quilter knows the hair. You sit down for twenty minutes of piecing, you stand up three hours later, and the mirror shows you a person who has clearly been through something. Thread on your shoulder. A pin you forgot about. Hair that has given up on the plan entirely. -
Stitch or Treat ~ a Field Guide to the Haunted Sewing Room
Every October, sewing rooms across the country transform. The light gets lower. The thread gets darker. Somewhere around nine at night, a quilter whispers "just one more stitch" ~ and everyone in the house knows that phrase is a haunting, not a promise. -
Binding By Hand Is Worth The Extra Evening
There is a moment, right at the end of a quilt, where you have to make a decision. The binding is attached to the front. Now it has to be secured to the back. -
Summer Studio Confessions: A Quilter's July Truth
It is July. The sun is doing absolutely too much. The world outside is full of people with sensible hobbies and functioning plans. -
The Scrap Bin Is Not A Problem, It Is A Plan
You know that moment when you open the scrap bin looking for one specific piece of blue, and forty minutes later you are sitting on the floor surrounded by every fabric you have ever loved, having found no blue whatsoever?
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Latest Articles
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For the Quilter Who Never Misses a Snap or a Stitch: Game-Day Gear for the New York Quilter
Hi friends, Judy here. -
For the Quilter Who Bleeds New York Green ~ Game-Day Gear Stitched for Us
Hi friends, Judy here. Every fall Sunday at my house sounds exactly the same: the game roaring in the next room, somebody hollering at a replay, and me at my machine, pressing seams between plays and glancing up just in time for the big ones. Sound familiar? -
Touchdowns and Thread: Inside the Minnesota Quilter ~ Game-Day Gear Collection
Hey friend. It is Sunday afternoon. The game is on in the living room, somebody just yelled at the television, and you are exactly where you want to be... at your machine, chain-piecing straight through the third quarter and looking up for the good replays. Sound familiar?
