The awesome Design Master Plan in action: how a mistake created something beautiful.
Want to see The Design Master Plan in action and what you can do with a beautiful mistake? Designs are rarely tossed with this process!
Mandalas!
If you’ve been wanting to try creating mandalas or a feature block for your quilt, try using the Dagubi lace set Illustrator files* (if you have…
Overlapping designs
What can you do with two motifs and some circles? Today you’ll see how to make a simple overlapping design and change out the motifs to…
Creating character in designs with reference guides
Good morning, everyone! Today’s tutorial shows how using reference guides can add character to any design. Reference guides are a series of dots or lines…
Trapunto samplers I & II
After trying trapunto on a quilt previously, I was eager to try it again when I saw Philippa Naylor’s technique in her book, “Quilting in…
Machine quilting sampler II
I learnt to machine quilt in 2000 and decided to make a couple of samplers after making heaps of practice sandwiches. This is the…
Where do I start quilting?
There are two main strategies when it comes to starting to machine quilt: start in the centre and working your way out to the…
Innovative quilt layout options
Do you always go for the standard setting of blocks when making a quilt? Now that the lines between traditional and contemporary styles are well and truly…
Top walking foot tips for quilters
The walking foot is no ordinary foot and needs to be used in a slightly different way to get the best out of it. The foot…
Quilting continuously
It can be tough to work out the best way to quilt a design as continuously as possible but there are some common techniques that can…
Fiona Schiffl 