JWD Publishing Blog

Hi Everyone,

When you read the JWD Publishing blog I hope you will either be inspired, laugh a little, learn something new, or just feel like you’ve spent a few minutes with a friend. People ask me how I find the products or subjects that I write about. Sometimes I will come up with a product that intrigues me. Other times, it is a product or an idea that someone calls me about. More often than not I will simply be surfing the web and stumble upon something new that I think you need to know about.

So here is something you need to know about— Heat Press Batting Together

Yes, that is the name of the product. What is it?? Heat Press Batting Together™ is a 1 1/2 inch cloth tape on a 10 yard roll. It will allow batting edges to be fused together with a soft fuse that stretches, eliminating the old pinning and stitching of extra batting pieces needed to fit a specific project. The product can be used on any batting content. Think of this— all of those leftover pieces from other projects can be fused together and made large enough to do another quilt. No more waste! This fused batting is easy to needle by hand or machine. What I also love about this product is that it is made in the USA!!

Go to www.heatpressbattingtogether.com and check out Heat Press Batting Together. Then, if you love it as much as I do, ask your local quilt shop to carry this great product.

Thanks for spending time with me!

Teresa

Hi Everyone!

One of the organizations that is dear to my heart is Project Linus. If you do not know what it is, let me give you a brief summary. Project Linus is comprised of hundreds of local chapters and thousands of volunteers across the United States. Each local chapter and volunteer work together to help achieve the mission, which is to provide love, a sense of security, warmth and comfort to children who are seriously ill, traumatized, or otherwise in need. Project Linus provides gifts of new handmade blankets and afghans, lovingly created by volunteer blanketeers. Together over three million blankets have been distributed since the inception of Project Linus in 1995. That is great news, but what does that have to do with Skip-Stitch? Read on…..

I was in my local quilt shop, the Little Scrap Quilt Shop in Kokomo, Indiana when my eyes stopped. What is a Skip-Stitch™? It is a blade that can be used on most 45mm rotary cutters. It perforates your fabric, making perfectly spaced holes. It comes in three sizes. The holes are a perfect size, so that you can add fringe, crochet around a blanket, or do lacing. The Project Linus website provides several ideas for making fleece or flannel blankets and then finishing them with the Skip-Stitch.

Now let me tell you how this great idea came about. I spoke to Joyce, the co-owner of Skip-Stitch.  (To digress, I must say she has the best Georgian accent. I am always go, go, go, but her slow, relaxed voice just slowed me down for a minute or two.) One day Joyce was making holes for fringe on the edge of a fleece blanket for the Project Linus. She was using an ice pick and was at her dining room table. You guessed it; she slipped. It made her start thinking that there had to be a better way. Joyce came up with the Skip-Stitch tool. Her co-owner husband makes this tool one by one in his garage.

Joyce, this is a great idea!

Everyone, please check this wonderful tool out at www.skipstitch.com. Then, after you have purchased it, make a blanket for Project Linus. See ya later.

Teresa