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How to Fold Perfect Bindings and Sashings: Using the Sasher Ultimate Set of 12
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.

How to Keep Your Sewing Room Lint-Free with Reusable Sticky Rollers
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…

How to Use Roxanne Glue Baste It: Tips for Pin-Free Appliqué and Binding
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…

How to Use Easy Threading Needles: A Guide for Quilters
Threading a hand-sewing needle shouldn't be the hardest part of your quilt — but for many quilters, it is.

How to Oil Your Longarm Machine: A Precision Oiler Guide for Quilters
Longarm machines are workhorses — mile after mile of quilting puts real demand on the moving parts inside that big head.

How to Mark Dark Fabrics: A Quilter's Guide to the White Chalk Pencil
What Is a White Chalk Pencil? A white chalk pencil is a marking tool designed for drawing temporary lines on fabric — especially dark fabrics where a regular pencil line would disappear.

Accurate Strips and Square Blocks: How to Use the Quilters Select 2.5" x 6.5" Non-Slip Ruler
If there is one tool quilters reach for every single day, it is a reliable ruler.

How to Quilt Straight and Curved Lines: The Dot to Dot Template System Explained
Dot to Dot Curves and Grid System Quilting straight lines and smooth curves on a domestic sewing machine takes practice and a plan.

How to Use Corsage Pins for Loading Quilts: Tips for Longarm Quilters
Quilting Corsage Pins If you quilt on a longarm or midarm machine, you know the loading step can make or break your whole quilting session.

How to Use Soft and Stable Foam Stabilizer: Tips for Quilters and Bag Makers
What Is Soft and Stable Foam Stabilizer? Soft and Stable is a sew-in foam stabilizer made from 100% polyester foam with fabric laminated on both sides.

Marking Dark Fabric with Confidence: How to Use the Ultimate Marking Pencil
Marking on dark fabric is one of quilting's small, persistent frustrations.

