Quilting statistics get passed around quilt guilds, blogs, and shop newsletters, often years after the survey behind them was taken. Some are fifteen years old, and some count every kind of sewing, not just quilting. This page collects the quilting numbers that trace back to a primary source, with the year each one covers. Every ... Read more
Uneven tension shows up right when you don't want it to, usually about two feet into a quilt top you spent a weekend piecing. The stitches look fine on the front, then you flip the fabric over and find a mess of loops on the back, or the thread's snapped twice in the last ten ... Read more
Nothing derails a good free-motion quilting session like a needle that stops catching thread. One second you are moving smoothly across the quilt top, and the next you are staring at a row of loose, unlooped stitches that pull apart the moment you touch them. Learning how to fix skipped stitches when free motion quilting ... Read more