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8 April, 2019
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Easy Feather Border – How to quilt a modern feather border with stencils

The Flurry of Feathers #50030 Stencil is an easy, large feather that is perfect for borders or an all over design. At 7-inches wide, this feather has large sections, minimal backtracking and no central spine, making it a great easy, starter feather for anyone looking to master this elusive free motion quilting design. I normally […]

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11 March, 2019
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Easy Wild Swirls! How to Quilt an All-Over Free Motion Quilting Design

Wild Swirls is a great skill builder stencil. It is a combination of swirls and swoops that is perfect to try once you feel like you have the basic swirl down and want to try something fancier. Its organic shape can look like fire on a hot orange, yellow or red quilt, or like leaves […]

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15 January, 2019
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How to quilt an overall swirl using Full Line Stencil and the Pounce Pad

When you start free motion quilting, you are told to just do an all over meander, keep everything curvy and don’t overlap your lines. It sounds easy to someone who has been quilting for a while. But to a true beginner, that can be very intimidating. In today’s tutorial I show you how to use […]

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13 August, 2018
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Free Motion Quilting with Stencils video tutorial! Master the stipple and leaf meander

When you start free motion quilting, you are told to just do an all over meander, keep everything curvy and don’t overlap your lines. It sounds easy to someone who has been quilting for a while. But to a true beginner, that can be very intimidating. You have to learn how to create smooth even […]

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1 August, 2018
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Up Close with the Stars – National Quilt Museum Block of the Month Club – August 2018

This summer is full of exciting news! I am the the designer of the August block for the National Quilt Museum Block of the Month Club! I was so honored and excited to be chosen for the Museum’s first Block of the Month Club and I was really excited to try to figure out how […]

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14 October, 2015
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Quilted: Ghost of Christmas Past

Making the decision on how to quilt your quilt is a very difficult decision. There are all over designs, custom quilting, free-motion, pantograph and computer-aided designs, thread choices, to ditch or not to ditch. The possibilities are endless and the results can dramatically impact the finished look of your quilt. I’ve been honing my free-motion […]

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26 March, 2015
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Ditching a quilt

No, I’m not throwing out a quilt, I’m stitching in the ditch. This was one of the first quilt finishing techniques I learned and quickly gave up when I started free motion quilting. But sometimes you just can’t get away with skipping this step, and that’s the case with my 2014 Block of the Month […]

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24 March, 2015
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Craftsy class review: ‘Help! How Do I Quilt It?’

I enrolled in one of Craftsy’s newer quilting classes, “Help! How Do I Quilt It? A Machine Quilting Manual” by Angela Walters last week to get some ideas for quilting my 2014 Block of the Month quilt. I have never quilted anything so large in anything other than an all-over pattern and wanted to do […]

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25 November, 2014
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Angela’s baptism quilt

One of the ministries of my church is to give each person that is baptized a quilt to commemorate the day. The group that makes them, the Baptismal Quilters, is one of the aspects that drew me to the church in the first place. That and a 10:45 a.m. service and a true acceptance of […]

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18 March, 2014
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Free motion quilting: Swirls and circles

I put a secret quilting project on the longarm last weekend. I can’t show you too much of it because it still needs to bound and gifted, but I can show you the all over free motion quilting stitch I used without giving too much away. If you can do loops, then the swirls and […]

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