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Quilters' Color Palette – Monochromatic Quilts
Using a monochromatic color palette can produce quilts of great visual power and sophistication. The secret is in the way light and dark fabrics are combined. more...
Brief History of Contemporary Art Quilts
Art quilts are quite a recent development in the centuries-long history of quilting. Here is the story of how quilts went from bed tops to gallery and museum walls. more...
Using Light-Dark Color Combinations in Quilts
Learn how using a mixture of both light and dark fabrics helps create quilts with color combinations that please the eye. more...
Art quilts marry the traditional craft of quilting with concepts and techniques imported from the fine arts and graphic design. more...
How to Bind a Quilt without Hand Sewing
Don't like hand sewing? Here's how to bind a quilt with a continuous binding strip that is attached to the quilt from the back side, then machine-sewed to the front side. more...
Heirloom Machine Quilting—Essential Supplies
Learn which quilting fabrics, threads, needles, and battings are used by experienced heirloom machine quilters to create intricate quilted effects with no hand stitching. more...
Essential Machine Quilting Supplies
Doing your own quilting can save a lot of money and be artistically satisfying, too. Here are the tools and supplies you'll need to machine quilt your own quilts. more...
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By: Mary Quehe
Whether using up fabric from a stash or choosing yardages of fabric from a local quilt shop creating a rag quilt is easy and fun to make as a gift for a loved one. more...
By: Dawn Goldsmith
Marilyn Belford, a leader in the art of fabric portraits, answers questions and reveals a bit about her art and herself. more...
Best Holiday Quilt Patterns for Christmas
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Angela England
The winter holidays is the perfect time of year to curl up with a newly made quilt, but for something that will only be enjoyed a few weeks, you want it be easy-to-make. more...
By: Dawn Goldsmith
With more than 27 million Americans involved in quilt making -- quilts matter! more...
By: Dawn Goldsmith
Making a quilt? In addition to cut, stitch, quilt and admire - be sure to take the steps to document the whole process and your quilt. more...
Log Cabin Quilt Design and History
By: Dawn Goldsmith
The quilt speaks of home and hearth, farming furrows, barn raisings, simpler times that revolved around family and home. more...
12 Ways Fabric Lovers Can Save the Planet
By: Dawn Goldsmith
What can fabric lovers do to help save the environment? more...
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