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Good Morning, Quilters! Learn how to quilt a cloud today! As YOU read this, I am in the clouds, winging my way back to Minnesota after vacationing in Italy! I’m sure I’ll have so much to tell when I get home… But I didn’t want YOU to miss a Tuesday Tutorial! Marking the Fabric Begin…
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Good Morning, Quilters! Today’s Tuesday Tutorial is a really fun variation of an old–as in ancient–design, The Egg and Dart motif. You may recognize the pattern, though it is usually seen in architecture. Building on Other Motifs Last week we stitched the Roof Shingles Motif To stitch the Egg and Dart motif, we are simply…
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Good Morning, Machine Quilters! I was doodling away and this fabulous machine quilting motif showed up on my notepad! (I love when that happens!) With a little machine quilting magic, we could create a beautiful row of flower pots like the Windowsill Garden HERE. I plan to machine quilt a border of these modern flowers…
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Good Morning, Quilters! Where have YOU been? I know, I know…YOU were here….I was not! I took an unscheduled break from blogging while my family was in town for Christmas. Then I took a little more time off to get my house back in order. Then a little longer while I put my tired brain…
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Good Morning, Quilters! For the past several weeks, we have been working on The Honeycomb machine quilting motif and several variations. (Be sure to check out these motifs in my book, More Free Motion Machine Quilting 1-2-3 –and get a little surprise with every book ordered!) Motifs: The Honeycomb Hosta Leaf Honeycomb Snowflake Ornament Honeycomb…
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Good Morning, Quilters! I hope you all had a lovely Thanksgiving, filled with family, friends, football, and fixins’! And I hope you had a chance to slip away from the commotion to stitch one of our Honeycomb variations? Today, we are going to add a festive note to the Honeycomb with The Snowflake Ornament.…
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Good Morning Quilters! Are YOU ready to quilt? I’m excited about a series of tutorials based on the Honeycomb Motif we learned last week! (The Honeycomb is also available in More Free Motion Machine Quilting 1-2-3 in the Backgrounds and Fills Chapter, page 134). (See also Hostas, Spring Chapter, page 65) HOW TO QUILT THE…
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Good Morning, Quilters! Last week, our machine quilting tutorial was for these adorable ghosts . While it’s fun to personalize our quilts with character motifs, we also need a variety of background fills and allover patterns to complete our quilts. Today’s machine quilting tutorial, The Honeycomb, is a great example of an easy and quick background…
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Good Morning, Quilters! One of my favorite motifs is Grid Pop (page 140 of my first book). It creates a very striking background in any quilt and it mixes nicely with other motifs and in quilts, for example- here and on Mr. Nutcracker HERE The motif can be adapted to any shape to create dramatically different results. By…
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Good Morning, Quilters! I just loved all the stories about YOUR moms from our Open Line Friday! It was clear that while only some of us had moms that sewed, most of our moms encouraged our creative endeavors! I hope my children will say I always promoted their creativity–more on that coming soon! Another…
