Your background will make or break a quilt. Boy, did I learn that lesson this week! I was teaching a class recently, and while discussing her flower color choices, I asked one of the students what her background was. She paused briefly, then replied, "Nursing". We both howled with laughter as she realized I was asking for her background fabric color! Haha! I guess I should have been more specific as to what background I was asking about. This week, I was tinkering with a new
I've been digging through my scrap piles, pulling out every useful piece. I swear these piles grow in the dark! So far I've made three new scrap baby quilts, and I have two more lap-size quilts in the works… and I haven’t bought a thing! I thought I'd share my process for turning unused scraps into simple, useful quilts. There really is no scrap left behind… I made a video showing my process and talk a bit about sewing with bias and using a shorter stitch length to get the b
