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INTRODUCING THE FABRIC CAFÉ


LET’S TALK TRASH, OR AT LEAST, HOW TO MAKE  A CUTE RUBBISH BIN


FINISHED OR UNFINISHED? THAT IS THE QUESTION


FREE STUFF YOU CAN USE TO MAKE A QUILT


PHILANTHROPY


ANOTHER TIDBIT ON MODIFYING A QUILT PATTERN


HAVE YOU EVER MADE A POTATO CHIP BLOCK QUILT?  


CHAIN PIECING HALF SQUARE TRIANGLES USING THE ACCORDION METHOD  


HOW TO ACCOMPLISH ERROR-FREE BINDING STRIP JOINTS  


REFRESHER ABOUT USE OF A ROTARY CUTTER  


MY NEW WAY TO PICK A PROJECT “TO DO” NEXT


HOW TO FOLD A QUILT TO PREVENT FIBER DAMAGE  AND TO ALLEVIATE HEAVY CREASES   


GOING FROM “TO DO” TO “TA-DONE” AND INTRODUCING YOU TO A UFO CHALLENGE  


SLOW DOWN AND ENJOY SEWING YOUR QUILT TOP  


WHEN YOU HAVE COMPLETED YOUR QUILT TOP,  IS IT REALLY READY TO BE QUILTED?  


HOW TO STORE STRIPS AFTER YOU CUT THEM  


EMPLOYING A COUPLE OF ITEMS  TO HELP WITH QUILT PROJECTS  


SEWING EASY PILLOWCASES USING THE BURRITO METHOD  


Blue Painter's Tape is a Handy Tool for Quick Marking


Get Creative With Sashing


Lori Holt's Design Boards


Decluttering Your Sewing Space  


Give Yourself Another Hand  


Bobbin Organization and Storage  


Salvage those Selvages  


Another Half Square Triangle Tidbit, But This Time It Involves Pumpkins!  


Avoid the Temptation to Use Tiny Templates to Cut Fabric  


A Method for Starching Pre-Cut Fabrics  


Introducing Jordan Fabrics “Twinkle Little Star” Center Square Technique  


A FREE SHAMROCK PATTERN  


AN EASY WAY TO MAKE A 4-PATCH BLOCK  


WE NOW HAVE PLENTY OF TIME TO SEW THOSE BONANZA AND CHRISTMAS UFO’S  


REUSABLE ROW AND BLOCK NUMBERS  


SOME SOLUTIONS TO DEAL WITH THE PROBLEM OF FRAYING FABRIC


MAKE FOUR FLYING GEESE UNITS AT ONE TIME  


WHAT TO DO WHEN CORNER POINTS DON’T WANT TO MATCH UP  


THREE WAYS TO SEW BINDING: ONE AND DONE  


THIS, THAT, AND THE OTHER  


Make Something Fun and Simple as a Distraction While Sewing a Complicated Quilt  


Changing a Quilt Pattern to Work For You  


January Musings  


Mitered Borders  


Edge Turn Machine Applique’ Using Light Weight Pellon  


Binding  


Using Up 2½-inch Squares, Employing Batting Scraps to Layout Blocks, and Sewing Half Square Triangles  


Preparing Fabric Prior to Cutting, Invisibly Piecing Quilt Backing, and Introducing Acorn Piecing Glue  


Squaring Up Blocks and a Mobile Design Wall  


The Quick Ripper, A Take-Apart Cutting Ruler, and Other Ramblings  


Make a Memory of Hope “Crumb” Quilt  


Gadgets and Gizmos  


The Five-Star Method for Testing the ¼ Inch Seam  


Dealing With Overstuffed Magazine Storage  


Review Your Subscription Expiration Dates  


What to Do with Fabric Leftovers after the Bonanza?  


Cutting Tools and Cutting Aids  


Chain Piecing a 9-Patch Block  


Washing Fabrics and Quilts  


How To Make a Block Press  


Tips on Consistently Sewing an Accurate Quilt Block


A Quick Way to Un-Sew Seams, Using a Seam Ripper, Without Cutting the Fabric


Repurpose Your 2018 Paper Calendar for Your Next Quilt Project






May 2025
INTRODUCING THE FABRIC CAFÉ

Happy May 2025.  In Hawaii, the first of May, or May Day, is Lei Day. Everyone decorates with lei and gives lei as gifts of aloha. Not only is it a beautiful celebration but also wonderfully fragrant. For us here in California, May brings several days of remembrance: International Worker’s Day, Cinco de Mayo, Mother’s Day, Armed Forces Day, and Memorial Day. Wow, it is almost summer after all of that!

In this May tidbit, I would like to introduce you to the Fabric Café, famous for the 3-yard quilt, featuring two designers, Donna Robertson and Fran Morgan.  You can go to their website at welisten@fabriccafe.com to see all that they have to offer. These ladies show you that you can make some amazing quilt tops with only three yards of fabric.  

At the top of the website homepage, there is a “free goodies” button you can click on for free patterns and free guide sheets to create some fabulous quilts. Especially look at the free guide sheet where you can make your own “Show Stopper” quilt that Fran highlights in a recent YouTube video. The quilt is really quite stunning as shown below.

Fran points out that if you have some favorite blocks you have used in other projects, or you have made or have seen in the past, you can put those together, united by color and fabric selection to make your own Show Stopper.  She made a really beautiful quilt with this idea.  Her free guide sheet includes step-by-step directions to show you how to create her Show Stopper Quilt.

That is it for this short and sweet tidbit.  I hope you have fun perusing the Fabric Café website and exploring all it has to offer as well as watching all the Fabric Café YouTube videos.  I think they have some 5- yard projects as well.   Fabric Café merchandise is available at their Etsy store, if you are interested in purchasing their patterns, pattern books, and other merchandise. 

Have a great May.  Thank you to Shari Riter for her suggestion for this tidbit.

If you think of a topic, you would like discussed in a future educational tidbit, let me know.  I hope to be back with something for June and then I will take a break until September, unless I just have to share something I experience or something I discover. Blessings to you and your family.
 




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May 2025
INTRODUCING THE FABRIC CAFÉ

Happy May 2025.  In Hawaii, the first of May, or May Day, is Lei Day. Everyone decorates with lei and gives lei as gifts of aloha. Not only is it a beautiful celebration but also wonderfully fragrant. For us here in California, May brings several days of remembrance: International Worker’s Day, Cinco de Mayo, Mother’s Day, Armed Forces Day, and Memorial Day. Wow, it is almost summer after all of that!

In this May tidbit, I would like to introduce you to the Fabric Café, famous for the 3-yard quilt, featuring two designers, Donna Robertson and Fran Morgan.  You can go to their website at welisten@fabriccafe.com to see all that they have to offer. These ladies show you that you can make some amazing quilt tops with only three yards of fabric.  

At the top of the website homepage, there is a “free goodies” button you can click on for free patterns and free guide sheets to create some fabulous quilts. Especially look at the free guide sheet where you can make your own “Show Stopper” quilt that Fran highlights in a recent YouTube video. The quilt is really quite stunning as shown below.

Fran points out that if you have some favorite blocks you have used in other projects, or you have made or have seen in the past, you can put those together, united by color and fabric selection to make your own Show Stopper.  She made a really beautiful quilt with this idea.  Her free guide sheet includes step-by-step directions to show you how to create her Show Stopper Quilt.

That is it for this short and sweet tidbit.  I hope you have fun perusing the Fabric Café website and exploring all it has to offer as well as watching all the Fabric Café YouTube videos.  I think they have some 5- yard projects as well.   Fabric Café merchandise is available at their Etsy store, if you are interested in purchasing their patterns, pattern books, and other merchandise. 

Have a great May.  Thank you to Shari Riter for her suggestion for this tidbit.

If you think of a topic, you would like discussed in a future educational tidbit, let me know.  I hope to be back with something for June and then I will take a break until September, unless I just have to share something I experience or something I discover. Blessings to you and your family.