Discover the essential sewing notions for garment making. Learn why they're crucial and what to substitute if you don't have them on hand.

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I'm a lazy quilter; through and through. So when it comes to binding, there is no WAY I would be caught dead hand-stitching the binding onto the back of a quilt. It's just not gonna happen. But that doesn't mean I don't still want to make it look nice. So how do you get your machine binding (front and back) to look great? Here's my step-by-step process. Binding doesn't need to be the part you dread anymore. Contents The approach Preparing the binding strips The process Ste

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

So you're ready to jump on the quilt coat bandwagon, but the pattern you've chosen doesn't have instructions for a lining. Or worse, it gives instructions for a faced lining but that's a bit too overwhelming for your straight line sewing, 2D quilter skillset (it certainly was for me!). You could use binding, but the thought of finishing your quilt coat by hand makes you gag (again, me!). Luckily, there's an easy hack to add a lining to any coat pattern. Step 1: Prepare Coat a