Batting loft, stitch spacing and the wash test
Loft is how thick and springy batting is. Stitch spacing is how far apart your quilting can be before it comes apart in the was...
Read it →Interfacing, batting, stabilizer, fusible web — plus the blades and clips that go with them. The parts of a quilt nobody photographs, and the ones that run out mid-project on a Saturday.
Shop interfacing Browse battingWe would rather carry every weight of one thing than one weight of everything. 128 Pellon items and 34 rotary blades, for a start.
Blades dull, clips go missing, markers dry up. These are the repeat purchases — priced per unit so you can see what you actually pay.
You need to see the color in real light and feel the weight of it. That is what your local shop is for, and we would rather you kept going there.
What a local shop cannot always do is carry every weight of interfacing, four sizes of blade and every loft of batting at the same time. That is the gap we fill.
Written for people who already know what a scant quarter is — and for people who don't yet.
Loft is how thick and springy batting is. Stitch spacing is how far apart your quilting can be before it comes apart in the was...
Read it →The number on a spool of thread runs backwards: the higher it is, the thinner the thread. That one fact explains most of what y...
Read it →A dull blade does not announce itself. It skips threads, drags the fabric off line, and quietly makes your blocks the wrong siz...
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