Quilting the Quilt

To keep the viewer’s attention focused on your masterpiece longer, use one of the following techniques to add movement to your work.

A quilt border serves the same purpose as a picture frame—it keeps the viewer’s attention focused on what’s happening inside it.

When debating between custom and overall quilting for your quilt, you’ll save yourself lots of time and stress if you answer these questions to help you decide...

Echo quilting is a technique that is often overlooked as a design element, but it can create dramatic results.

Are you a traditionalist, or do you lean more toward contemporary? As the next quilting generation finds its voice, a new and different genre is emerging.

From fluffy and fun to frilly and fancy, feathers are designs that quilters long to master.

We are never satisfied with our own shapes and curves, and we pine after the style or gracefulness we’ve seen in other quilters’ feathers.

Tension won't be so mysterious and irritating if you learn a few secrets about managing it and how the other choices you’ve made regarding your quilt top affect it.

You’ve seen them, you’ve probably used them, and you’ve possibly ignored them! Skinny little “separator” borders help us frame blocks, set off larger borders, and make our quilting math come out right.