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Quilt Backing Tutorial

3. April 2009

After Kathy’s great and precise tutorial at Pink Chalk Studio, this one probably seems a bit slap-dash, but hey, there’s always more than one way to go about it! If I had a set of those ginormous cutting mats in my studio, I might be a bit more precise and exacting when I cut my [...]

Marking Border Quilting Designs

13. March 2009

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Since Joyce asked, here’s a short tutorial about fitting border quilting designs when marking a quilt. This is the Swanky quilt, which is about 24″ x 29″ and the border stencil is 2″ wide. For a first try at this method of border marking, use a small-ish quilt, so that the borders aren’t [...]

Machine Quilting: Your Ticket to Speed Control

17. February 2009

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Machine Quilting: Your Ticket to Speed Control

Are you struggling with stitch length when you free motion quilt? It's all about speed control, finding the rhythm, and being ONE with your machine!

Keep It or Bin It: Lickety Grip, WonderFil Rayon, and the Clover Embroidery Threader

18. January 2009

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I’m finally getting around to sharing some of my experiences with some new products I picked up at the quilt shows last October. Up on the Keep It or Bin It review block today are a few products that I’ve been using and testing since then. Did they make the grade? Let’s see: Lickety [...]

When is an Inch not 1″?

8. December 2008

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Have you ever compared the markings on your rulers to the markings on your cutting mat to see if they are the same? Can you even imagine that they wouldn’t be? Are the markings on your rulers really accurate? Is that inch really 1″? It never occurred to me that the markings [...]

HST’s & QST’s: It’s Not You, It’s the Math

3. December 2008

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Have you ever wondered why points are so difficult to match up when you’re making a block with half-square or quarter-square triangles? It’s not so bad if the entire block is HST’s or QST’s by themselves (except that the block will most likely not finish to exactly the expected size), but pair either one [...]