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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!

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

Sunday, January 18, 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 [...]

Patchwork Times–Book Report, Car Dealers and Climate Control

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

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After a pretty productive week last week on The Book, I feel like this week may get away from me entirely until Friday. The minutiae of at least two weeks of life is condensed into this one week, with “something” to do each day. I did manage to finish one of the biggest projects [...]

Take the Machine Quilting Workshop–Online!

Saturday, November 1, 2008

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I’ll be teaching Machine Quilting—Master the Basics online at Quilt Campus, November 8-29. This is the same class that I teach in person for shops and guilds, and it’s equivalent to more than 6 hours of instruction. Online workshops are great, since you can do the work at home, on your own machine, [...]

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 [...]

Quilter’s Dream Batting Review

Monday, August 25, 2008

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I’ve been working with a new (to me) type of batting, Quilter’s Dream Poly Batting. For my current project, I needed something that has virtually no shrinkage, and very low loft. Quilter’s Dream is nearly the only thing on the menu in the way of poly batting at the Heidelberg Arts & Crafts [...]