Jan Myers's Articles in Hobbies

  • Embellishments Give Your Quilt Personality
    Adding embellishment to a quilt project makes it a unique, one-of-a-kind quilt that stands out above the rest. Today even a common quilt pattern can become an exclusive quilt with the addition of beautiful embellishments. This article discusses some of the currently used embellishments that will enhance the look of every quilt.
  • How to Add Bead Embroidery to Your Quilt
    When you're looking for an idea to add something really special to a quilt, something that will give your quilt the "WOW!" factor, beaded embroidery is the hottest embellishment for creating a distinctive quilt. In this article you'll learn the "how-to's" of creating gorgeous beaded embroidery quilt embellishments from the very beginning. You'll have everyone talking about how easy it was to create this stand-out quilt.
  • Quilting Patterns and The Great Depression
    All quilters need patterns and those in the quilting business today often rely on a marketing technique developed during The Great Depression to sell women's magazines to market their own quilting related businesses offering free quilting patterns.
  • Selecting Quilting Fabrics Using a Color Wheel
    One of the most important, and often most difficult, tasks in creating a quilt is the selection of fabrics. This article describes how the use of a color wheel can lead quilters to choose complementary fabrics that when combined in various shapes and blocks will create a masterpiece to adorn any bed or wall.
  • The Art of Selecting a Quilting Pattern
    One of the most basic tasks of creating a beautiful quilting project is to first choose among thousands of patterns the one that will best suit the project at hand. This article discusses the options available to quilters in choosing the most appropriate quilt pattern as well as ways to adapt that pattern to their particular theme.