Detail, Resting Place by Vikki Pignatelli.

What's New & News
in Quilting Around the World
by Lois Marilyn Verma

Shop Talk
New products for designing, stitching, and hanging your quilts.

Quilting Bee
Visit with other QNM readers and share their quilting stories.

On the Cover–Fandango
A value-placement exercise comes to life with photocopies, fusing, and machine applique.
By Rachel Wetzler

Roses for Lillie
Follow Carol Barton Jerome's design from initial inspiration to award-winning quilt.
By Jan Magee and Marilyn Hollenback

Getting Control of Your Stash
A professional organizer offers advice on taming your fabric collection.
By Lois L. Hallock

Meetin' Place
San Francisco quilt artist and teacher Sonya Lee Barrington promotes the need to make original work.

Quiltmaker's Workshop–
Free-form Piecing
Achieve exciting results with hand-drawn grids and sashes.
By Janine Holzman.

Readers' Quilt Show
The quiltmaker's mind is fertile ground for creating landscapes, real and imaginary.

Bulletin Board
Top tips, a pattern for paper-pieced kites to capture March breezes, and cutting charts for the quilt Tumbling Stars.

Gourmet Fillings, Part 2
Other Natural Fiber and Synthetic Batting. New options to satisfy your craving for the perfect batt.
By Barbara Fiedler

Easy Lesson–
Posy Primer, Part 6
Sharpen your needle-turn applique skills.
By Barbara Fiedler

How Long Did That Take?
Some answers for this often-asked question.
By Anita Shackelford

Photo Finish
Ancient Pines by Jan Rashid.