There are over 5,000 fabric swatches included in EQ7. But just like with our real life fabric stash, no matter how many choices we have, we are always ready to add more! In this article, I will show you how to add more fabric to your “electronic stash”.

Quilters Cupboard, a local quilt shop about 30 minutes north of my home, is featured in the Fall/Winter 2010 issue of Quilt Sampler magazine.

Shadowing occurs in a quilt when a darker fabric shows through a lighter fabric. Here are some strategies to help avoid it.

In this last article of the series, we continue our look at scanning and printing. This time, however, we’ll consider the possibilities of scanning and printing fabric!

Last week I explained how I dyed all the fabric patches in my quilt “Trinity” using an ink-jet printer. Here are some ideas about how you could use this technology in your quilts.

With the holiday season quickly approaching, I thought I would share one of my annual traditions. Every year, I make a fabric Christmas ornament for each of my neices and nephews. But I always make extra, because I have learned that they add a nice, personal touch to any gift.

It always surprises me when I hear people say that choosing fabrics for a quilt is the hardest part of the process. It’s the best part, I say! This article describes an easy and effective way to choose fabrics by using a multi-colored print fabric: a focus fabric. The focus fabric may be used in your quilt as patches or as a border, or it may not be used at all. Its purpose is to set the color palette for the quilt and to make choosing fabrics fun!