In this video, you will learn how to fill your quilt borders with a glorious garden as you stitch all-over flowers with an echo
fill. Heather Thomas demonstrates this free motion technique and offers some creative design ideas for your own quilt borders.
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8:12Composing Your Quilt Design
One way to think about your quiltmaking is as a composition. Just like a musician composes a piece of music or an artist composes a painting, a quilter composes their quilt. Heather Thomas discusses how you can keep composition in mind when designing your quilt, ensuring your quilt is balanced, harmonious, and pleasing to the…
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3:18Adding Found Objects to Your Quilt Designs
Looking to add some texture and dimension to your art quilts? Heather Thomas shares a creative idea for adding found objects like stones and shells to your quilt designs. She also demonstrates a simple thread wrapping technique that you can use to decoratively hand stitch the objects to your quilt.
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15:08Hanging a Quilt: Build Your Own Frame
If you’ve been quilting for a long time and have found yourself with more full size quilts than you know what to do with and you’re ready to tackle a smaller quilt-Heather Thomas has a great project idea. She shows you how to showcase small quilts by building your own frame from wire. Wire Frame…
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6:28Adding Quilt Jewelry and Metals to Quilts
Heather Thomas adds some tiny pieces of hot fixed metal to an already amazing quilt to make it sparkle. Learn how to enhance your quilt with some jewelry too. Once you find the metal in the shape you desire Heather will help you place them and iron them on.
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