I am semi-ashamed to post this because I owe so many baby gifts, but it’s been hard to keep up lately. So this week, I'll post some of my go-to pressies. Today, the baby duvet. One side is flannel, and the other cotton, sandwiching two layers of batting. I’ve made several of these over the years, but because I was working with a few layers, it would all twist and feed into the machine at different speeds, no matter how vigilant I was.

Then I met a little gizmo that changed everything: the walking foot. Just pop one on, and it literally hops right along your fabric, feeding the top and bottom and middle layers just so. Heaven, I tell you.