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When a Template Shifts, the Cut Suffers Few moments in quilting are more frustrating than lifting your ruler or template after a careful cut and discovering it shifted partway through.

Threading a Needle Doesn't Have to Be the Hard Part Every hand-sewing project starts the same way: with a needle that needs threading.

How to Use the Bohin Mechanical Chalk Pencil for Precise Fabric Marking Every accurate quilt starts with an accurate mark.

What Is the Quilters Select 6" x 12" Non-Slip Ruler? The Quilters Select Non-Slip Ruler 6" x 12" is a mid-size cutting ruler for everyday marking, measuring, and cutting.

What Is a 6" x 24" Non-Slip Ruler? If one ruler earns a permanent spot next to the cutting mat, it is a long 6" x 24" ruler.

What Is a Thread Pic?

What Are Side Grips? Side Grips are bar-style quilt clamps used on quilting frames — the kind of setup you'd find with a longarm or midarm machine, or a home machine on a frame.

Why a Fabric Balloon Ball? A Safe, Stash-Busting Project Many households have a "no balls in the house" rule — and for good reason.

Thread clippings on your clothes, pins scattered across the floor, pet hair on the quilt top you just pressed — a sewing room generates its own special kind of mess. The Go!

If you've ever fought with a fabric strip that refused to fold evenly while you pressed it, the Sasher is about to change your quilting life.

If your sewing room floor sparkles with thread snippings, your design wall sheds fuzz, and your quilt tops seem to attract every stray pet hair in the house, disposable lint rollers can't keep up…

If you've ever pricked your finger one time too many while pinning an appliqué piece — or watched a fiddly binding corner shift just as you started stitching — Roxanne's Glue Baste It is the…