Tutorials

Scroll down to browse all our helpful tutorials.

Projects
Blocks
Piecing 101
Foundation Paper Piecing
Basting and Quilting
Finishing Touches (bindings, edgings, labels)

Projects

How to add a zipper to a pillow cover

Finishing an envelope-style pillow cover

pair of quilted Christmas Stocking

Twice-turned Christmas stocking

Blocks

quilted green lonestar quilt block

Lone Star block

Bright blue patchwork butterfly block

Butterfly block

Close up of patchwork quilted flower block

Spring Blooms block

Piecing 101

Why the 1/4" seam allowance matters and how to test it

Nesting and Spinning Seams

Stitch-and-Flip Corners

Making Half-Square Triangle Squares (HST) two at a time

Using Triangle Papers to Make Making Half Square Triangle Squares

Matching Points

Spinning Multiple Seam Intersections

Making QST Units from HST Units

Tips for sewing on-point settings

Measuring and Adding Borders

Cutting Shapes with 45 Degree Angles

Sewing 45-Degree Shapes Side by Side

A better way to work with paper templates

Half Rectangle Triangle Units

(like the sails in this block)

Foundation Paper Piecing (FPP)

reverse of foundation paper piecing work in progress

Freezer paper foundation paper piecing

reverse of foundation paper piecing work in progress

Changing the size of of a foundation paper piecing foundation

Basting and Quilting

C-clamp holding two sides of a quilt frame together

Basting frame to be friendlier to your back and knees

closeup of spiral quilting on a red and green star quilt

Quilting an interrupted spiral with a walking foot

Paper quilting template on a patchwork quilt

Tissue paper templates for free motion quilting

Finishing Touches

a roll of double-fold red quit binding

Making bias binding with bias tube method

Orange binding sewn to the front corner of a quilt

Sewing binding to a quilt by machine - Part 1

Folded white and orange quilt with orange binding

Sewing binding to a quilt by machine - Part 2

Triangular label sewn into the binding on the back corner of a quilt

Quick and easy corner quilt label

Matching Stripes in Binding

angled seam on a strip of quilt binding

Joining binding strips

Prairie point finish on a quilt

Prairie points 4-part series

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