Short Takes
Lorie Stubbs shares her strategies for capturing the 200-year-old look; top tip; foundation piece a little skier.

On the Cover–
Flower Window
By Ichiko Ogura
Hand piece the delicate Compass Flowers to add chareming accents to your own quilts.

Vernons's Wood
By Karen Luman
A photograph taken on a walk in the woods helped the quiltmaker choose farics for this Winding Ways wall quilt..

Looking for Love
By Georgia Fries
A pieced lap quilt, made in chocolate and raspberry, is as yummy as a truffle for your Valentine.

Fish Scraps
By Rahna Summerlin
The quiltmaker tapped an ocean of ideas using Electric Quilt softwear and a box of tropicalscraps to create this thow-size quilt .

In a Pickle Part 1 of 3
By Carol Buchan
Foundation piecesrs with a bit of experience will love making this wall quilt. A spohisticated palette updates an old-fashioned favorite.

  Q Lab

Shop Talk
Discover new tolls and fabrics that will help you start the quilting year off right.

Easy Lesson
By Denise Labadie
Borrow a technique from garmet making to inset shapes into your quilts.

Power Stitching
By Angie Hodapp
A traditional quilt with machine emboridery takes best of world.

Finish Line
By ZJ Humbach
Somethings you can't afford not to do as a professional longarm quilter.

Color As I See It
By Margaret J. Miller
Get the angle on building color confidence.