Links

A page where we can collect the links to web sites that have helpful information, great fabric and notions offerings, and other things of interest to us as quilters!

Shopping

True Up, your source for fabric news, designer interviews, sale alerts, and everything fabric.  (Joan)

Missouri Star Quilt Co--has a Daily Deal of discounted fabric, shipping charges, etc.  I also frequently visit Batiks Plus, Pink Chalk Fabrics, eQuilter, and Fabric Depot when I'm looking for specific fabrics or just want to see fabrics that inspire me. (Betsy)

Tutorials and Techniques

Free Motion Quilting

Leah Day's free motion quilting blog

Fabric/Quilted Post Cards

Red Shoe Ramblings - How to Make a Quilted Post Card
Needled Mom - Postcard Tutorial
Susan Dague Quilts - Fabric Postcard Tutorial

Pin Basting 

Red Pepper Quilts has a good tutorial on layering your backing, batting and top and pin basting your quilt together in preparation for the quilting step.

Binding/Facing a Quilt

There are many different ways to bind a quilt.  Below are links to several currently on the web that I think are helpful.

Pink Chalk Studio shows how to machine bind a quilt.

Using the backing fabric to make the binding is well illustrated by Loretta Alvarado here  http://www.lorettaalvarado.com/binding.htm

Binding a quilt the Jinny Beyer way

Binding odd angles

Facing a quilt from Art with a Needle blog

Amanda Jean from Crazy Mom Quilts shows her technique using a 2.5" straight binding strip and has photos to illustrate her method of machine binding front and back.
Rachel from Stitched in Color shows her zigzag method for machine binding.

Red Pepper Quilts shows a machine binding technique that uses a narrower (2.25 ") binding.

Cathedral Window Tutorials--Some traditional and some very different


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