Creating a Design Wall

A design wall is very helpful for laying out quilting blocks comfortably and easily allowing the quilter to step back and evaluate the layout and quickly make adjustments.  When a fabric like flannel is used the quilt blocks will cling to the wall without the need for pins.  Using half inch insulation boards allows pinsContinue reading “Creating a Design Wall”

Channelling my Inner Kindergarten Student

On Saturday January 24, the Brampton Quilters’ Guild, to which I have belonged for twelve years, ran a workshop on Journal Art Quilting taught by Sheree, in which we were shown has to use paint, muslin, fusible fabric and Tyvek to create fabric to use in journal quilts.  In the afternoon, we made a smallContinue reading “Channelling my Inner Kindergarten Student”