Curved piecing is scary. Somehow you're supposed to sew two curved edges together and end up with a flat piece. There's all this extra fabric and funny shapes. How on earth is this all supposed to work?!? Breath, my quilty friend. This is a case of the imagination being much worse than reality. With a couple of easy guidelines, you'll be sewing curves like a pro in no time. Contents: The general idea Cutting your pieces Trace then cut Straight edge guided cut Universal curv

Acrylic quilting rulers are very smooth. That’s good for a lot of things, but it makes it easy for the ruler to slip when you're cutting resulting in an inaccurate cut, or worse, injuring yourself. Giving your ruler some grip can help immensely with this so you don't have to apply a death grip to your ruler just to make a good cut. There are a number of products out there designed to help with this. Check out this post for more information on other products and tips for makin

Don't you just love it when your points come together perfectly on the first try? It's not critical, but when it happens, it just gives you that little extra jolt of excitement and you feel like a boss! The only problem is that consistently getting precise points usually means slowing down a lot and doing a bunch of extra starching, trimming, and often seam ripping steps all of which zap the fun out of quilting. We'd all love perfect points every time, but the "lazy quilter"

Using paper templates to cut non-standard pieces is a great way to create non-traditional quilt blocks. However, it can be INCREDIBLY frustrating trying to cut accurately when the papers and fabric are constantly shifting. I've got an easy hack for you to avoid all that frustration when cutting straight edges using paper templates without having to invest in expensive acrylic templates or specialty rulers or having to cut templates out of cardstock or template plastic. It's t