When Barbara and I began talking, she made mention of a curious fact about needles – “if you’re finding it impossible to thread a needle, flip it over; they’re manufactured differently on one side.” I’ll be damned, that seems to be true. My question, predictably, is this: Why the hell don’t the make both sides [...]
Since I’ve been at this for a whopping two months now, I am fully qualified to pass along The Wisdom of the Ages in terms of quilting. These are mostly things I have learned or am learning The Hard Way. Some of it has been imparted to me by Barbara, Mike’s mom Sharon and various [...]
As it turns out, pre-washing the cheap fabrics seems to have taken a lot of the “tacky” feel out of them. I noticed, as I was putting them into the washing machine, they had a fairly foul smell – I wonder if the nasty feeling was preservative chemicals of some sort? At any rate, they’re [...]
Tip: Do pre-wash your fabrics in warm water and dry on medium to get any shrinkage out of the way before you cut. Don’t wash your husky mix’s doggie bed immediately before doing so. It’s fall. Sumi is shedding even more than usual. Oy. Posts Like This One, In One Way or Another:Wisdom TidbitsIf Only [...]
Somewhere, I read a line something quite like the following: “Be sure you have plenty of solid fabrics in your stash – if all you have is a bunch of crazy/adorable prints, you’ll leave yourself nowhere to go.” I seem to be running into that problem currently. While I’ve started rounding out my “large print” [...]