Many hours of cutting, sewing, and hand or machine quilting can take a toll on your body. According to medical sources, good posture and certain exercises can help relieve stress and prevent…
Many of the projects in American Quilter call for invisible thread. So we asked Barbara Shapel for some tips. Barbara said that since invisible thread is sometimes temperamental, try these tips for…
Pat Yamin, author of the AQS Publishing book Two Patch Scrap Quilts will show you how to use her templates to make a Card Trick quilt. She also shows how to use…
Janet Stone says she absolutely has to embellish her quilts! But how does she make her embellishments an absolutely integral part of her quilt and not look like an afterthought? “I truly…
Bobbie Aug learned to sew on treadle sewing machines in Illinois. Bobbie was inspired by the quiet, dignified beauty of nineteenth-century quilts and began making quilts 30 years ago. She became a…
No matter how beautiful your quilt is in real life a bad photo of it might very well keep it from being admitted to a quilt show. The AQS staff photographer Charley…
There are so many amazing aspects to Ronda Beyer’s Essence quilt, which won the Best Longarm Workmanship Award at the AQS Quilt Show & Contest in Knoxville this summer. From the quietly…
Here is a hint from Joanie Zeier Poole, Des Moines Quilt Show teacher, on how to start machine quilting. “Get out the owner’s manual for your machine. Read the instructions for free-motion,…
Have you ever run out of a fabric when you were in the midst of a project? Have you ever been fabric shopping and fallen in love with a fabric but, just…
Do you get tension headaches? I’m not talking about headaches you get from the stress of airline flight delays or not being as smart as your smart phone, but the specific misery…