https://www.cascadia-quilts.com/blog daily 0.75 2026-04-02 https://www.cascadia-quilts.com/blog/2024/1/29/making-flying-geese-faster-with-diagonal-seam-tape monthly 0.5 2024-01-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ad3804aa9e0287aecf63a95/8a52de7f-05b1-4165-a177-5b18972ee2a2/Screenshot+2024-01-29+at+6.42.05+PM.png Blog - Making Flying Geese Faster With Diagonal Seam Tape - Make it stand out One way I was taught to make flying geese quilt blocks is like in this picture which I found on this blog post from the Weekend Quilter at Brother. You draw a diagonal line on a square, place it on the base rectangle, and sew along that diagonal line. Then you trim and press. https://www.cascadia-quilts.com/blog/2024/1/22/how-to-square-up-quilt-fabric monthly 0.5 2024-01-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ad3804aa9e0287aecf63a95/94335d3d-e62f-4523-ab64-a010ca5bd5da/IMG_5503.jpg Blog - How To Square Up Quilt Fabric - Make it stand out Step 1: Get your piece of fabric and lay it on the cutting mat. You could do this for a whole width of fabric. I got a small piece for this example to be able to take photos more easily. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ad3804aa9e0287aecf63a95/b06c8ea7-8ba7-4c07-8ff4-291179fdec75/IMG_5506.jpg Blog - How To Square Up Quilt Fabric - Make it stand out Step 2: Start pulling the loose threads along the width of fabric. Look for the single thread that runs along the whole piece of fabric. Here’s a close up of want you want to get. In this piece, it causes about 1/8" of difference! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ad3804aa9e0287aecf63a95/851c88eb-9fee-496b-8e15-14315395f63d/IMG_5508.jpg Blog - How To Square Up Quilt Fabric - Make it stand out Step 3: Once you have that exposed thread, get your rotary cutter and carefully cut the fabric along that entire length. No, I didn’t use scissors to cut this, they were just hanging out on my cutting mat. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ad3804aa9e0287aecf63a95/ee05ca90-d3cb-420b-9266-d0c0cd2cd1c3/Screenshot+2024-01-22+at+1.00.05+PM.png Blog - How To Square Up Quilt Fabric - Make it stand out Step 4 (last step)! Your fabric should now be square — the selvage edge and the edge you just trimmed should be at right angles to one another. If they’re not, then gently stretch the fabric along the bias, from corner to corner and then continuing until it’s all been stretched equally. Press and lay it on your cutting mat to confirm that the selvedge edge and the cut edge are at a 90-degree angle to each other. https://www.cascadia-quilts.com/blog/2024/1/21/how-i-organize-quilt-pieces monthly 0.5 2024-01-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ad3804aa9e0287aecf63a95/80e1de99-745c-42f6-a0cb-578e2d3b9ce6/winter1.jpg Blog - How I Organize Quilt Pieces - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ad3804aa9e0287aecf63a95/14aa2c9c-ed45-42bc-b35d-5e72c6156c94/winter2.jpg Blog - How I Organize Quilt Pieces - Make it stand out So for each type of piece, I have one plate. I just write on the rim of the plate which fabric and piece type it is to help me double check that I have the right one as I’m putting together the quilt. When I start a new quilt, I reuse the same set of plates by just crossing out the old information and writing in the new information — that’s why you see some plates with old information crossed out already. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ad3804aa9e0287aecf63a95/571deebe-c0b7-42e8-b386-a49faf380c84/winter3.jpeg Blog - How I Organize Quilt Pieces - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.cascadia-quilts.com/blog/sewing-room-tour monthly 0.5 2024-01-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ad3804aa9e0287aecf63a95/34ab7512-f5c1-42ec-bf35-d302da739679/quilt+room4.jpg Blog - A Tour of My Quilt Room - Layout To start off with, here is an approximate diagram of where things are located. 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The rainbow cart is filled with various notions (threads, glues, etc) and holds my printer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ad3804aa9e0287aecf63a95/21850354-2185-4f09-aea7-c85fda347d99/alex.jpg Blog - A Tour of My Quilt Room - Make it stand out Underneath the pressing table is an IKEA Alex drawer where I try to corral most of my smaller scraps. I am trying to get better at keeping scraps organized in a way that’s actually useful but in the meantime, the ROYGBIV here makes me happy to look at. P.S. Yes there is masking tape holding together one of the drawers. Don’t judge me lol. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ad3804aa9e0287aecf63a95/cb8212f2-acac-47e5-b477-5e72d1de9a5c/longarm.jpeg Blog - A Tour of My Quilt Room - Make it stand out My Innova longarm (with 12 foot table) takes up most of the room. We got those super long 12’ leader bars in through the window since they wouldn’t fit through the staircase :) Underneath are some IKEA cubes that I recovered in my favorite Phosphor fabric from Libs Elliott. The cubes are filled with all kinds of stuff like batting scraps, tape/staples, garment fabrics, etc. I need to go through and get them organized and labeled so I don’t pull out 16 bins every time I’m trying to find something! The paper plates are a great organization tip that I also heard about from Libs Elliott that really works well for me. I will share more about it in a future post. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ad3804aa9e0287aecf63a95/a6f9c510-41e9-4afe-af51-5346deb8df9b/bookcase.jpeg Blog - A Tour of My Quilt Room - Make it stand out Completing the room is my cutting table and bookcases. The table is an awesome heavy-duty adjustable height Husky table that my generous in-laws gifted me for the holidays a few years back. 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