If you’ve been overawed walking through galleries or simply been intimidated by quilts you’ve seen at the local quilt store, please know you’re not alone and that there is hope! Quilting has been a mainstay in cultures for years and years due to it’s core simplicity and way of bringing people together. Once you understand the quilting basics, quilting can quickly become your new passion. There are many other quilting tools and accessories, but for quilting basics, a beginners kit like this can suffice.
Quilting basics – tools you will need (other than your machine):
- Rotary cutter. I use a 45 mm by Olfa and love it.
- Rotary mat. I started with a 12″x18″ cutting mat. I suggest eventually investing in the 36″x24″ mat or else you will hate cutting bigger pieces such as border or binding strips.
- 1.5″ pins and large safety pins. You will need the pins when piecing together your quilt top. The safety pins may come in handy later when basting your quilt top, batting and backing together.
- Quilting ruler(s). You don’t have to get these all at once, but if you bought the following rulers you’d probably be set: 8″ square, 10″ square and 6″x24″. The 6×24 is great for cutting border pieces and binding strips; I probably use this ruler the most.
- Iron for pressing the seams.
- Scissors for cutting thread. I like to use applique scissors because they’re really sharp.
Happy Quilting!
As read on: Quilting In The Rain