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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…

Threading a hand-sewing needle shouldn't be the hardest part of your quilt — but for many quilters, it is.

Longarm machines are workhorses — mile after mile of quilting puts real demand on the moving parts inside that big head.

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.

What Is Longarm Centering Tape?

If there is one tool quilters reach for every single day, it is a reliable ruler.