APQS Video Tutorial: Clover Sprout Meander

To provide a little homemade comfort during her friend's long recovery, APQS Education Director, Dawn Cavanaugh designed and made this monogram quilt. Don’t worry if your last name doesn’t start with “L”, she has included all the letters of the alphabet for you in the free pattern provided.

In the previous issue of Love of Quilting, we showed you how to use motifs from fabrics to create quilting designs. Now we’ll show you how to use those designs you’ve found hidden in your fabric.

Quilts can have lots of quilting, or very little quilting, or a combination of too much in one area and not enough in another. If the amount of quilting—called “quilting density”—is unbalanced across the quilt, you could...

We are never satisfied with our own shapes and curves, and we pine after the style or gracefulness we’ve seen in other quilters’ feathers.