How To Make a Pieced Back for Your Quilt

Plus Quilt showing front and back

A pieced quilt back can really make your quilt sing! It’s a great way to use up fabric from your stash, or enhance the design by incorporating fabrics from your quilt top into the back. It can be a lifesaver if you’ve invested in a wideback that’s too small. 

Discover the Joy of Designing and Selling Your Own Pantographs

How to design digital pantographs

Are you curious about creating and selling your very own pantographs? Maybe you’d love a source of passive income, or perhaps you just want the joy of seeing your designs stitched into quilts across the world. I’ve been exactly where you are,

Wavy Slice – A New Pantograph Design

DIARY A quiet place to share work away from the hustle of social media… I’ve been making a lot of new pantographs and Wavy Slice is one of my favourites. It’s an offshoot of Slice, which is part of the 100 Day Pantograph Design Challenge. I’ll be putting this on a quilt any minute now, […]

100 Days of Pantograph Design Challenge

Quilted examples of modern quilting designs

Have you ever done a 100 day challenge? The concept is that you create something every day for 100 days to “explore the impact of daily repetition on creative output”. I’m in the middle of one right now, called the #100daypantodesignchallenge, run by @thequiltingmill on Instagram. I’m up to about day 30 (I’ve lost count already) […]

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Avoid tension trouble. Test before you quilt.

Longarmers, this free tension test will save you time and help you deliver quality quilting.

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