Getting started with Scrapbooking

At the most basic, scrapbooking is taking books with blank pages and adding in photos, journals, memorabilia and documenting moments in time. Baby books, college graduation, friendships, weddings [...]

You are curious and want to pursue a creative hobby – that is a perfect starting point. Aside from the desire, there is a certain level of equipment that you will need. And if you are [...]

T-Shirt quilts are the perfect combination between sewing and scrapbooking. What better way to tell the story of a life than through the t-shirts that have collected over the years? Whether it’s [...]

  Creative Guild of Ellis County Quilt Show- July 20th-21st @ Midlothian Conference Center (1 Community Dr., Midlothian, TX) Friday from 9:30 AM -5:00 PM Saturday from 9:30 AM -4:00 PM [...]

You’ve gone through your fabric closet and have sorted it. You finally found the stack of material that you found at the store on clearance! Now the question is, how do I use it? Making a quilt [...]

  Cell phones have made it easy to take picture after picture of every attended event. But what do you do to protect those precious memories from disappearing? Accidents happen. Hard drives [...]

The ease of transferring images to fabric has allowed the creation of heritage quilts to be less labor intensive. You no longer have to print out your images on rigid plastic iron-on sheets that [...]

It seems everyone is learning how to use watercolor pens or make their own invitations these days. The resurgence of interest in calligraphy and typography has seen an explosion in do-it-yourself [...]

On April 8th, 2018, the Zula B Wylie Library will celebrate its 70th Anniversary!  Zula Brant Wylie was 6 months old when her family moved from the farm to the 1890 House!  The Library is located [...]

Of all the sewing machine feet, the most versatile has to be The Walking Foot. The Walking Foot is a mechanism for feeding the workpiece through the sewing machine as it is being stitched. It [...]