Smartisans

The ChiaoGoo FORTÉ 2.0 set has carbon fiber tips in US-2 to US-8, African Blackwood in US-9 to US-15, nine cables, and a tin of tools. What is in it, what it makes, and the FORTÉ carbon fiber tips we sell by the pair.

Use the colors in a favorite photo to guide your fabric, yarn, and thread choices. Color repetition makes knitting, quilting, and embroidery projects cohesive and full of impact.

Six ways to keep quilt pieces, rows, and blocks labeled from the cutting mat to the finished top, with what each one does and what it does not do.

Four tip lengths and nothing on the package to tell you which one is yours. Here's how to match tip length to what you knit and how you hold your needles.

Two questions come up almost daily: 4-inch or 5-inch, and will I be comfortable knitting with tips as short as the Shorties? Here's how we answer both.

Seven small habits in how you loop, store, and hold your work help ChiaoGoo cables last. And if one snaps, here is how to file a warranty claim with ChiaoGoo.

ChiaoGoo interchangeable tips stay on the cable when you tighten them with the key and gripper every time. The steps, which tips take two keys, and what to check when a join keeps loosening.

Nancy Zieman taught sewing on television for 35 years. This tribute covers how she taught, her landscape quilts with Natalie Sewell, and her last program, I Sew for Fun.

Freezer paper presses onto fabric with a dry iron and peels off clean. How to use printable freezer paper sheets for applique, piecing, embroidery, printing on fabric, and stencils, and which sheets do the jobs freezer paper cannot.

LEDs inside a 6-inch acrylic quilt ruler light its etched lines so they show on dark fabric, busy prints, and in poor light. How it works, how to use it, and what it does not do.

The colors of a fall afternoon in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, and the quilt patterns, leaf templates, embroidery thread, and sewing pattern we carry in the same shades.

Bee projects for hand embroidery, cross stitch, and quilting, from a small embroidery hoop to a king-size quilt.