Glue Basting vs. Thread Basting EPP: Which Should You Use? You have your paper shapes, your carefully chosen fabric and a cup of something you will absolutely forget to drink while it is warm. Now you must decide: should you glue baste or thread bas...

How to Restart a Knitting Project When You Forgot Where You Left Off You open a project bag and find half a scarf, two needles and a pattern folded to a page that may—or may not—have anything to do with the knitting inside. The project is not necess...

How to Pack an EPP Travel Kit Without Losing Tiny Pieces English paper piecing should be wonderfully portable. Then you open your project bag and discover three loose hexagons, a wandering needle and one fabric piece that has apparently separated fr...

Why Your Quilt Block Looks Solid from Across the Room Your fabrics looked different while you were cutting them. The individual pieces were easy to see while you sewed. Then you finished the block, stepped back—and all that careful piecing seemed to...

You have saved the envelopes, collected the paper scraps and found a particularly nice piece of packaging. Now comes the awkward question: how does this pile become an actual journal? Start with one small booklet. A single-signature junk journal giv...

How to Restart an Unfinished Quilt When You’ve Forgotten Where You Stopped You open a project bag and discover twelve blocks, several mysterious strips and a note that says “finish these.” Helpful. Thank you, Past Me. If you want to restart an unfin...

How to Recreate a Fabric Collection From Your Stash You find a fabric collection that would be perfect for your next quilt—and then discover that it is expensive, discontinued or apparently hiding in the same mysterious place as your missing seam ri...

How to Start an Embroidery Kit Without Getting Overwhelmed An embroidery kit looks wonderfully manageable while it’s still in the package. Then you open it, find six colors of thread, a pattern full of stitch names, and a hoop that seems to require ...

Planning Handmade Holiday Gifts Across Quilting, Crochet, and Knitting I love making holiday gifts. I’m less fond of the moment when I remember the quilt I meant to finish, the yarn I set aside for someone, and the knitting project that still needs ...

How to Restart an Unfinished Quilt When You’ve Forgotten the Plan An unfinished quilt can become a little archaeological investigation. There are blocks, a mysterious strip of fabric, and absolutely no explanation from the person who packed it away....

How I Organize Quilt Scraps with Free Printable Fabric Bin Labels Quilting scraps have a way of multiplying when no one is looking. One minute, I have a few useful leftovers from a project. The next, I have overflowing tubs filled with strips, squar...

What Is a Chaos Blanket? How to Use the Viral Crochet Trend in Any Fiber Art If you’ve been on the crafty side of TikTok lately, you may have seen people making chaos blankets. The idea immediately appealed to me for two reasons. First, I have enoug...

How to Sandwich a Quilt on the Floor When You Don’t Have a Large Table I do not own a table large enough to sandwich a quilt. What I do have is a kitchen floor—and three children—so you can probably imagine the condition of that floor on an average ...

Tablet Weaving Pattern Looks Wrong? 7 Things to Check Tablet weaving pattern not working? Check threading direction, card orientation, starting position, turning sequence, tension, and more before rewarping. Something Looks Wrong. Now What? You've t...

How to Organize Fabric Scraps by Size So You’ll Actually Use Them Organize quilting scraps by usable sizes instead of color so precuts and leftovers are easier to find—and more likely to become quilts. The Scrap-Bin Problem There comes a point in a ...