DesignMatters TV

What thread do we use for our machine quilting? In this article Laura will share her tips for how to choose the right thread for the effect you’re looking for.

A flip-through Linda’s hand-bound, plant printed sketchbook with drawing, painting and stamping.

See how you can remix a single piece of hand dyed fabric to create a beautiful appliqué design. Laura’s using digital embroidery for her example, but you could try the technique with traditional bonded appliqué too.

Season’s Greetings everyone! Here is our Christmas card to you for 2022. You are welcome to download, save and print the image.

Find out more about the basics of digital stitch and see how Amelie’s used it to make a motif patch to customise a jacket.

Inspiration can come from objects you live with everyday, and setting up a Still Life to work from can be a brilliant way to practise your skills of composition, drawing and painting. In this two-part workshop first Laura shows how to create a consistent environment for your arrangement, and shares tips and ideas for objects you might choose and how to place them.  

In the second part Linda encourages you to try a ‘back to front’ approach of painting first, drawing second, using a combination of oil pastel, watercolour and soluble pencils. It’s great fun, and a fast and free way to record what you see – perfect for getting to know your still life subject.

Linda is adding the final touches to her latest fish quilt using fabric painting. See how it’s coming along.

See the box that Linda made inspired by chameleons!

Linda’s working on a new quilt featuring monoprinted fish. Take a look at the piece in progress and see how she’s adding the quilting and painting.

Take a look at some of the digital stitch examples that Laura demonstrated at Festival of Quilts 2022.

Join Laura as she tries out the new Sensa Green threads. She’ll show you her samples so far and compare the threads to cotton and rayon.

See some of our photos from Festival of Quilts 2022.

Take a look at an antique Drunkard’s Path quilt which caught Laura’s eye recently.

Take a look at some of the digital stitch examples that Laura demonstrated at Festival of Quilts 2022.

Have a look at the drawings Laura’s been working on this week.

We’ll be exhibiting at Festival of Quilts in August. Come and see our work in a gallery hosted by Madeira threads.