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How to Make an Hourglass Quilt Block: Free Tutorial
Hourglass quilt blocks are also referred to as quarter square triangles. They are a basic quilt block you can use alone or combine with other blocks to form more intricate…
How to Make the Ohio Star Quilt Block: Free Tutorial
The Ohio Star Quilt Block is a basic nine patch quilt block made from quarter square triangles and squares. This classic block is popular in both traditional and modern quilts.…
Spotlight: Annabel Wrigley, Textile Artist
A common thread in textile artist, designer and author Annabel Wrigley quilt designs is joyful, playful color. This busy mom designs quilts, writes books, publishes patterns, designs fabric and teaches…
Spotlight: David Hastings, Multidisciplinary Designer
With a drive to create, Multidisciplinary Designer and Art Director David Hastings found encouragement from a young age to pursue art and design. Depending on the project, he may sharpen…
Spotlight: Kate McCully, Amigurumi Pattern Designer
From sock monsters to crocheted dolls, Amigurumi Pattern Designer Kate McCully's imagination has always been filled with creative ideas that she then simply had to make with her own hands.…
Spotlight Yvonne Fuchs, Modern Quilter and Designer
Most people fear rejection. Instead, Modern Quilter and Designer Yvonne Fuchs actively pursues it, pushing her skills to discover her strengths and the processes that best express her vision. The…
Spotlight: Karoline Dahrling Hughes, Sustainable Sewist
Rules? What rules? For sustainable sewist and crafter Karoline Dahrling Hughes, the joy is in the making. Creating is above all a happy pursuit filled with embraceable imperfections that we…
Spotlight: Claire Passmore, Textile Artist
Taking the art quilt to new dimensions - 3 dimensions, textile artist Claire Passmore pushes herself to explore experimental materials and processes to achieve her vision. Claire works spontaneously, but…
Spotlight: Tighe Flanagan, Quilter and Designer
Life takes interesting turns, and a stint teaching in Jordan for the Peace Corps ignited a passion for the geometric grids and patterns of Islamic art, transforming Tighe Flanagan from…
Kumihimo Supplies for Beginners
Kumihimo, an old Japanese braiding technique, looks complicated, but the process is really very easy to learn. Newbies to the craft will have greater success with the right Kumihimo supplies…
Embroidery Gift Guide
Stitchers love to stitch, and they love to receive handmade gifts. We have put together an embroidery gift guide with projects, tools and supplies that are good for the embroiderers…
Spotlight: Michelle Staub, Pet Embroidery Artist
Pet embroidery artist Michelle Staub starts with photos of much-loved pets and creates realistic embroidered portraits with needle and thread. With her attention to detail and and an eye for…
Spotlight: Mel Beach, Quilt Artist
Mel Beach's next quilt could emerge from a simple roll of the dice. But not just any dice. The quilt artist, teacher and lecturer applies creative instructions to the sides…
Spotlight: Jo Avery, Fiber Artist
Fiber artist Jo Avery began creating with needle and thread as a child when she sewed alongside her big sister. That lit the spark for Jo, and she takes a…
Spotlight: Lindsay Swearingen, Embroidery Artist
Describing her work as whimsical dark humor, embroidery artist and designer Lindsay Swearingen takes cross stitch to a level beyond traditional schoolchild samplers. Designed and stitched with as much precision…
Spotlight: Ellen Rubin, Knitter and Creative Director
Knitting isn’t just fun, it develops neural pathways that lead to physical and mental benefits. That’s what knitter and immunologist Ellen B. Rubin, Luv2Knit & More shop creative director, intuited.…
How to Two Needle Right Angle Weave
Always ready for a pretty beading project, but short on time to design and gather materials? The chance to make the Looking Glass Bracelet landed at just the right time!…
Spotlight: Sharon Riley, Mixed Media Artist
As a fiber and mixed media artist, Sharon Riley calls on her relationship with Mother Earth to inspire her art. Walking on the beach, meditating in less-traveled environs and listening…