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How to Do Basic Hand-Stitching and Knotting
Hand stitch when you do not have access to a sewing machine or when your sewing task requires a more delicate touch....
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How to Make a Quilt
Making a quilt can be very fun. You can make a quilt at your leisure or speed up the process by using...
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How to Hand Stitch a Quilt
After sewing together a quilt top, the next step is to hand stitch, or hand quilt, to bind together the three layers...
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How to Stitch in the Ditch Quilting
Stitch in the ditch quilting lets the pieced design of your quilt take center stage. This form of quilting follows the seams...
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How to Sew a Blind Stitch on Binding on a Quilt or Hem
Whether you're sewing the binding onto the edge of a quilt or finishing the hem on the bottom of a skirt, the...
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How to Quilt
Quilt making has been around for generations. Maybe you remember a handmade quilt from your childhood. Maybe someone gave you one as...
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How to Blind Stitch Quilt Binding
Add a binding to your quilt to give it that finished look. Adding a binding also protects the edges of the quilt...
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How to Ladder Stitch Quilt Binding
The last step in finishing a quilt is attaching the binding. While this can be done with a sewing machine using decorative...
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How to Back a Prequilted Cross Stitch Baby Quilt
There are many pre-finished items available for cross-stitch customization, one of the most popular being baby quilts. Often featuring stamped designs, these...
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How to Blind Stitch a Quilt
Blind stitching is a quilting technique used to appliqué fabric shapes to a piece of background fabric, tack binding to the back...
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How to: Baby Stitch Ditch Quilting
Baby quilts are good for beginners because they are often made with simple blocks and stitching in the ditch is a method...
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How to Sew Bias Line Gathering Stitches for a Yo-Yo Pattern Quilt
The yo-yo quilt pattern is an old and traditional pattern. Making a yo-yo quilt forces you to work on the bias. The...
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How to Stitch in Shadow Quilting
Shadow quilting produces a delicate design that is particularly appropriate for a pillow or baby quilt. The shadow is produced by hand-stitching...
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Making a Family Quilt: Hand Stitch Opening
Trim around the edges. Lay your blanket on top of the batting and cut around the blanket. Learn how to make a...
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How to Do Stack-n-Stitch Quilts
A stack-n-stitch quilt also know as a Stack and Whack, features a kaleidoscope pattern created from a large scale print fabric teamed...
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How to Pick Out Stitches From Long Arm Quilting
There was a time when all quilts were made entirely by hand. It was a slow process, and it took many hands...
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How to Stitch a Name on Homemade Quilts by Hand
A homemade quilt is a valuable demonstration of an American art form. It signifies care, time, skill and creativity, and the gift...
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How to Slip Stitch
A slip stitch is used to create an invisible seam between two folded edges, or a folded edge and a flat edge....
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Ideas for Quilt Labels
The last step of making a quilt, after days, months, or years of working on it, is to attach a quilt label....
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How to Choose a Quilting Design for Your Quilt Top
You have a variety of options to help you choose the best quilting design for your quilt top, such as stippling to...
Aslynn
Apr 25, 2009
Most pro quilters will tell you that step #2 is wrong! You cut your pieices a 1/4 inch larger but you stitch a scant 1/4 inch along the join. This allows room for the seam. Most new quilters don't understand why their finished blocks are slightly smaller then they should be, this is why!