Episode 563: Plan Your Best Quilt Retreat Yet!
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Plan Your Best Quilt Retreat Yet!
Lindsay shares tips for planning a fun quilt retreat for your friends, including how to find a location, questions to ask the host, choosing dates, making time for food and fun, and more.
Get Organized
Lindsay shares ideas for using back-to-school items that are on sale right now as storage in your sewing space. She gives ideas for pencil cases, lunch boxes, Trapper Keepers, planners, and Post-It notes.
Lindsay's Musings
Lindsay shares the results of a recent poll she did on her Instagram. She asked quilters the most common way they press seams. 47% of people said they mostly press to the dark side. 19% said they mostly press seams open. And 34% said they press however the pattern tells them to press.
Follow @lindsmayland on Instagram to vote in future polls.
Behind the Scenes
Lindsay shares a few fun things happening with us outside the podcast. American Patchwork & Quilting October and Quilts & More Fall issues just hit newsstands. We launched a new video series called "Behind the Seams". And we're starting a new pumpkin-theme sew-along, so join in here.
What's Trending
Beth shares a trend she's seeing in the quilting world -- classic two-color quilts. The popular patterns and fabric lines she mentions are: