Busy Quilter’s Guide: 80 Essential Tips and Techniques

I’m thrilled to share a new free resource created especially for quilters who love their craft but don’t always have the time to sew!

📘 Busy Quilter’s Guide: 80 Essential Tips and Techniques

Whether you’re just beginning your quilting adventure or have been stitching for years, this guide is filled with 80 easy, practical tips, clever shortcuts, and bits of expert advice to help you quilt faster, better, and with more joy.

Inside, you’ll find help for every stage of quilting — from choosing fabrics and cutting pieces to piecing, appliqué, quilting, binding, finishing, and even displaying your quilts. Each tip is designed to save time, build confidence, and make your quilting time more enjoyable.

🧵 Here’s a peek at what’s inside:

Smart fabric prep strategies, thread choices, and cutting techniques
Piecing tutorials, half-square triangles, and more
Applique, free-motion quilting, and walking foot quilting guides
Binding and finishing tips
Handy advice on marking tools, fun specialty techniques, and creative shape transformations
Guidance on displaying, labeling, and framing your quilts and mini projects.

For most of the information in this guide, I already have full tutorials on my blog, so if you’re familiar with my style of sharing tips based on experience, everything is included here in one place. No need to dig around; all the links are right where you need them.

With 25 years of quilting and 17 years of blogging, I’ve gathered my best tips into this friendly, time-saving guide—perfect for both new and seasoned quilters.
Download a copy of this guide below.