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Quilt Marking Roundup: Stitching Through Paper

Saturday, November 21, 2009

I’m currently teaching Machine Quilting—Master the Basics online at QuiltCampus.com, and one of my students said that the hardest thing was to figure out how to transfer the quilting design to the quilt. I really can’t disagree with that! Quilt marking methods are many and varied as are the tools, and it’s different for every [...]

In the Groove, Sort of…

Friday, November 13, 2009

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Last Sunday, I did a little dusting and cleaning up in the studio, and then decided that what I really wanted to do (or needed to do, as the case may be) was some free motion machine quilting. Free motion quilting is something that I find pretty relaxing actually; I can just get in the [...]

Machine Quilting–Master the Basics Online Workshop

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

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Just a quick note to let you know that I’ll be teaching Machine Quilting—Master the Basics at Quilt Campus starting this Saturday! This is a great beginning machine quilting workshop that you can take online from your own sewing studio. The workshop is presented in four lessons over four weeks, with plenty of opportunities for [...]

Parting Ways–Pfaff 2054/2056/2058 For Sale

Saturday, July 18, 2009

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Parting Ways–Pfaff 2054/2056/2058 For Sale

It’s time to part ways with one of my sewing machines, and I’ve decided that the Pfaff Performance 2054/2056/2058 has to go. I’m not selling it because there’s something wrong with it (there isn’t) or because it’s not a good machine (it is) or because I don’t like it (I do), it’s just that I [...]

Marking Border Quilting Designs

Friday, March 13, 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 [...]

Some Swanky Quilting

Friday, February 27, 2009

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Here’s a little more “stream of consciousness” quilting on the Swanky quilt: I drew a loopy little quilt design to coordinate with the border stencil I chose, and then only used part of it! [...]