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Machine Quilting: Your Ticket to Speed Control

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

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!

AQS Show Des Moines–The Loot

Saturday, October 18, 2008

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I gathered the loot from the AQS Show back up so I could share! Here’s the first batch: Looking at it all now, I’m sure it’s not terribly exciting to anyone but me, but I’ll tell you what it all is anyway. From the top center, sort of counterclockwise, we have: Something [...]

Let’s Talk Machine Quilting (and a Giveaway!)

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

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I treated myself today, and spent a little while machine quilting on a small quilt. Many of my projects these days are small-ish, and I’m really enjoying the machine quilting breaks that come along every few days. (If you’ve been following along, you’ll probably be able to figure out why most of my [...]

Done frogging, but still thinking

Friday, February 22, 2008

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And it’s the thinking part that usually gets me into trouble, you know. Here’s the deal: While I was machine quilting this little wallhanging (it’s “just a get.it.done. item off of the Creativity List:, you remember), I was really enjoying myself. Well, except for those insane arguments with the OCQ and the [...]

The power of hasty decisions

Sunday, January 27, 2008

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Have you ever considered how much power a small, seemingly insignificant decision can have? Even when you’ve thought and planned and imagined what the outcome would be, sometimes the smallest little pebble can make the deepest waves. There are times you can move backward and reassess, and then make changes and move on [...]

Hand signals

Tuesday, January 15, 2008

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As I sit at the machine quilting The Misery Quilt, I remember with great fondness the days years ago before my hands began sending me these hard to ignore signals that say “stop, you’re hurting me!” While I was quilting the endless stippling on Stars in My Hand, I had to cut down my [...]