A great way to show off your love for sewing!

This heirloom-inspired quilt features warm, tone-on-tone fabrics and threads, providing a monochromatic, vintage appearance.  Machine embroidery, along with a variety of decorative stitching techniques have embellished the quilt blocks.  Fabrics used in the quilt are dupioni silk, cotton, batiste, silk organza and cotton organdy.  Rayon, cotton and metallic threads provide added interest throughout the entire piece.  Read on for more details about five different techniques used in this quilt.

Have you ever wondered what do to do with all those “fancy” stitches on your sewing machine?  You know what to do with the basic stitches, like straight stitch, zig-zag – even the buttonholes – but what about all those decorative stitches?  Well, after taking a closer look at this quilt, you just might be inspired with some fresh new ways of looking at your machine’s decorative stitches, and giving them a try for yourself!

March is National Craft Month, and it is also National Quilting Month!  One thing that crafters and quilters usually have in   common, though, is a love for applique.  So, this month we   thought we would share some fun ways we have used applique recently, in hopes of inspiring your own creativity – no matter what type of sewing you like to do!