by Katy Cameron | 08.01.2018 | Quilt Making Basics, Tutorials, Uncategorized
To some, quilt maths comes easily, while for others, the idea of trying to work out how many of a certain shape you can get out of a certain cut of fabric is enough to make them tear their hair out! For this post, I thought I’d give you a bit of a helping hand...
by Katy Cameron | 07.08.2017 | Quilt Making Basics, Tutorials
Following last week’s Paper Piecing Toolkit, this week I’ve been working on Half Square Triangles, so I thought I’d share with you my toolkit for them: This is a smaller kit than last week, but the fastest way to make HSTs that I know of! My main...
by Katy Cameron | 31.07.2017 | Foundation Paper Piecing, Quilt Making Basics, Tutorials
I’ve been thinking recently about how, when I come to do a specific technique, I grab my tried and trusty tools for that job, so I thought I’d do a few posts on what I use to do certain tasks in the hopes that it might help you guys out a bit :o) Today...
by Katy Cameron | 24.07.2017 | Quilt Making Basics, Tutorials
Recently I’ve found myself doing a fair amount of basting, from big quilts to little quilts and a few other wee quilted things in between. As I pulled out all my basting tools for the umpteenth time I thought we’d take a look at different types of quilt...
by Katy Cameron | 10.07.2017 | Quilt Making Basics, Tutorials
As I started a new quilt the other day I was thinking about the names that we assign to different techniques in quilting and how one term is rather more open to interpretation than many others. I mean you know that with the term ‘Paper Piecing’ that...