Designing quilts with circles isn’t as difficult as you might think. Renae Haddadin’s book “Amazing Ways to use Circles and Rays” and EQ7 quilt design software can help!

Quilting makes the quilt. I couldn’t agree more. It’s also my favorite machine quilting book in my library.

As we begin our new blog series on machine quilting, you may be wondering how I learned to quilt by machine. I am mostly self-taught and learned a great deal by reading books written by machine quilting experts. This post will give you a reading list to get you started.

Fearless Design for Every Quilter, by Lorraine Torrence and Jean B. Mills (C&T Publishing 2009), is like a class in a book.  In fact, the book is based on a design class that Lorraine has taught since 1997.  Meeting for three hours once a month, students in this nine-month-long workshop learn design elements and principles [...]

I’ve been wanting to add a book review section to my blog and now, finally, I have! Here is The Quilter’s Directory of Embellishment by Sally Holman, C&T Publishing 2006.