Where do you buy your fabric?
First, I’d like to say that I rarely buy fabric with a purpose in mind. I buy fabric that catches my eye or I can see making something cool. Someday.
I love to go to my Local Quilt Shops. Always support your local business if you can. The LQS’s in my area that I love the most are:
- Village Creek, Lodi
- Mill House Quilts, Waunakee
- Stitcher’s Crossing, Madison
With my three little girls I don’t get to quilt shops as often as I would like, though, so I do some of my fabric shopping online. Here are a list (in no particular order) of the online quilt shops I frequent the most:
- Fat Quarter Shop – top of the line, great customer service, so much selection
- Fabric.com – lots of fabric on sale, great for stocking up on the ‘basics’
- FabricFascination – stunning selection of batiks, fantastic customer service, low shipping, great specials
- SpiceBerryCottage – huge selection, fabulous whimsical prints, great customer service
- Hawthorne Threads – love fabric choices, fun lines, great service, their newsletter is addicting.
I’m always shopping for more fabric. If you have a shop yourself or one that you like to frequent – please share it here.
Do you give lectures or teach classes?
YES! I love to! Please check out my current lecture and workshop offerings here!
Who quilts your quilts?
Most of my large quilts are quilted by my aunt-in-law, Barb Raisbeck of Quilts by Barb.
I have also had some of my quilts free motion long arm quilted by Marcia Wachuta of Marcia’s Crafty Sewing and Quilting.
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My smaller quilts and some of my medium quilts are most likely quilted by myself, either on my Janome 6600, Janome 1600P or my Bernina 750.
Helpful Quilting Links
Here are a few links that will help you on future quilting projects and photographing those projects. Please share with me any links/tutorials you think should be added to this list! I’ll continue to update as I receive more input from you all!
Beginning Quilting and Further:
- The 3 B’s – Borders, Backing and Binding
- Easy Peasy Machine Binding
- Blocking Quilts
- Matching Seams
- Quilt Spacer Border Calculations
- How to Bind Inside Corners
- Learn How to Paper Piece
- How to Bury Knots when Machine Quilting