Running stitch is a very quick and easy hand embroidery stitch to master. It is often used to form the foundation of other stitches or it can be used on its own as an outline stitch.

Running stitch is also the stitch used for hand quilting. For best results work each stitch a uniform size, the distance between each stitch should also be uniform.

Watch my how-to video below.

Have fun working this versatile embroidery stitch.

Warmly,
Lenna
www.stitchingcow.com

Grab yourself a cup of coffee, these quilts are fabulous. The theme for this week’s virtual quilt contest is Easter. Thanks to everyone that entered their fabulous quilts in the Weekly Themed Quilt Contest.

Now it’s time for you to vote for your favourite!! The lucky winner with the most votes will win a Jelly Roll of their choice from the Fat Quarter Shop.

• Voting is open Friday – Sunday @ 11:59 p.m.
• One vote per IP address (NOT email address), so have your family and friends cast a ballot for your favourite quilt (from home if you send it to coworkers)
• Winner announced Monday!

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P.S. Next week’s theme is Circles. Get your cameras out!

Facebook, email subscribers and RSS readers: You need to visit the Quilting Gallery blog to vote: CLICK HERE.

For the past several weeks, I’ve been inviting you to blog along with us over at the Quilter’s Daily blog along. We’ve had such great fun, but now it’s time for a change, a good change!

Each Thursday, I’m going to feature one of the fabulous bloggers from the Quilting Bloggers directory. With just under 4,000 blogs to choose from, I’ll have more than enough content to fill this spot. (I’d need 77 years to feature everyone, yikes!)

My first ShouT OuT Thursday blogger is Linda M. Poole. I had the extreme pleasure of taking an applique class with Linda last week at the Lancaster AQS show.

It was such a wonderful class, and I learned several new techniques. She showed us how to make itty bitty 1/8″ bias binding for adding JAZZ to our applique or pieced units, and I’m totally hooked. I can’t wait to give it a try.

I think Linda’s tagline, Where the Magic of Applique, Quilting and Everyday Life Happens, sums up her blog perfectly. I don’t know where she finds them, but she features such fabulous photos of cool quilty stuff and COLOUR that will leave you totally inspired and in awe. Here’s one from her latest post:

And another one from an earlier post:

You’ll definitely enjoy the antics of Zoie:

If those days filled with April showers are getting you down, I’m sure you’ll enjoy a visit to Linda’s blog for some inspiration. (Isn’t her new seahorse fabric gorgeous?)

Have you stumbled upon a great blog lately? ShouT OuT on your blog and don’t forget to leave a comment at the Quilter’s Daily blog along with a link to your post so we can check it out too!

Stay tuned for next week’s ShouT OuT Thursday, it might just be you!

I’m thrilled to be featured as a guest blogger! Quilting has always been such a relaxing past time for me. In 1976 I was working on a needle point picture of Mickey Mouse commemorating the 500 year anniversary of the bicentennial. I was flipping through Family Circle magazine and came across a picture of a quilt made by Jinny Beyer called “Rising Sun.” The magazine had quilt blocks in it and I started making 9 patch and half square triangle blocks mimicking the ones shown in the magazine. I followed the magazine for months and taught myself how to cut squares and triangles and figured out how to turn them into patchwork blocks. I continued to make patchwork from the magazine and bought whatever books I could find on patchwork. I sewed blocks until we moved to Atlanta in 1981. I guess you could say the rest is history.

Little Quilts started with Alice Berg, Sylvia Johnson and myself. Alice, Sylvia and I started making little quilts to sell in the early 1980s. We saw a room setting in one of our country decorating magazines that had small doll quilts hanging on walls or as accents in cupboards or end tables. We loved the look and feel these small doll quilts created, however, they were very expensive so we decided to study books that had antique doll quilts and try to make them ourselves. We made them for ourselves, gave them away as gifts to our friends and we sold them at antique fairs and festivals.

We set up an outdoor clothes line that had the quilts hanging on it and tagged each one with a little story about how they came to be. Over the years we sold more than 500 of these doll quilts. They were not miniature quilts. They were made with squares of fabric never smaller than 1″ and usually the quilt blocks were about 5″. In miniature quilts, the block are usually 3″ or smaller.

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