Washing machine, the final quilting step

  I feel like a quilt isn’t really complete until it’s been through the wash. Hang in with me for a second those of you who think putting the final stitch in the binding is the time to celebrate. For my batting I go back and forth between Hobbs Heirloom 80/20 cotton-poly blend and Quilters Dream […]

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16 January, 2014

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Changing Scale with the Loopy Meander – Intro to Free Motion Quilting

Welcome to our Intro Free Motion Quilting series! We are so excited about this course so we can help give you the confidence to finish your quilts yourself on your home sewing machine or longarm. Today we are working on changing scale with the loopy meander. Changing scale is one of the easiest ways to […]

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8 February, 2022

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Simplified Swirl – Intro to Free Motion Quilting

Welcome to our Intro Free Motion Quilting series! We are so excited about this course so we can help give you the confidence to finish your quilts yourself on your home sewing machine or longarm. Today we are working on a simplified swirl which is the swirl I use the majority of the time. It […]

Stephanie Soebbing

15 February, 2022

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Double Loop Meander – Intro to Free Motion Quilting

Welcome to our Intro Free Motion Quilting series! We are so excited about this course so we can help give you the confidence to finish your quilts yourself on your home sewing machine or longarm. Today we are stitching the double loop meander. It’s exactly what it sounds … after you stitch the first loop, […]

Stephanie Soebbing

9 February, 2022

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Wavy Lines Stencil – Intro to Free Motion Quilting

Welcome to our Intro Free Motion Quilting series! We are so excited about this course so we can help give you the confidence to finish your quilts yourself on your home sewing machine or longarm. Today we are starting our final free motion quilting stitch, the wavy line. This is such a versatile stitch that […]

Stephanie Soebbing

28 February, 2022

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Changing Scale with Swirls – Intro to Free Motion Quilting

Welcome to our Intro Free Motion Quilting series! We are so excited about this course so we can help give you the confidence to finish your quilts yourself on your home sewing machine or longarm. Today we are working changing scale with the simplified swirl. By now you know very well how changing the scale […]

Stephanie Soebbing

16 February, 2022

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Easy star meander quilting design … Perfect for patriotic & kids quilts

It is summer … almost. And that means it is time for some patriotic quilting projects. And today we’ve got a quilting stencil that is perfect for all of your flag themed quilts, #40070 Seeing Stars Overall from Full Line Stencil. This stencil is a combination of a very basic meander stitch, with a few […]

Stephanie Soebbing

4 June, 2019

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Loopy Meander Show and Tell – Intro to Free Motion Quilting

Welcome to our Intro Free Motion Quilting series! We are so excited about this course so we can help give you the confidence to finish your quilts yourself on your home sewing machine or longarm. It’s Loopy Meander Show & Tell Time! We’re going to wrap up each segment of the Intro to Free Motion […]

Stephanie Soebbing

13 February, 2022

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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 […]

Stephanie Soebbing

26 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 […]

Stephanie Soebbing

24 March, 2015

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