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Good Morning, Quilters, Doodlers, Bakers, and Pie-Eaters! Welcome to another Tuesday Tutorial for free motion or long arm quilting! Last week we stitched the Cheery Cherry . This week we’re adding a motif that would look “sweet” paired with the cherries and it’s Easy as Pie! I have a quilt “baking” in my brain using both these…
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Good Morning, Quilters and Flower-Lovers! Today we have a motif straight from the garden (well not yet…my garden is mostly weeds and blooming crabapple trees…but the rest of the garden is poking up their sleepy little heads waiting for the SUN to come out in full force!) Spring is slow to develop here in…
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Good Morning, Quilters and Quilt-Lovers! Today’s tutorial: Woodgrain is a motif I saw while reviewing a book for Molly Hanson of SewWrongSewRight. Molly’s book, Free Motion Quilting for Beginners (and those who think they can’t) will be released very soon. (Later this week we will review Molly’s book and ONE LUCKY READER of The Inbox Jaunt…
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Good Morning, Quilters and Quilt Lovers! Are you ready for some quilting? Of course you are! You have a least a dozen quilt sandwiches ready to go…Read more in BE READY And you know what needle to use….Read more in The 80/50 Rule for Free Motion Quilting. You have several choices for batting: Read…
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Good Morning, Quilters! Are YOU getting ready for the holidays? Do YOU make gifts for many people on YOUR list? Time to get started… Today we are going to “Spin the Dreidel” (free-motion-quilt-style. THE DREIDEL-A FREE MOTION QUILT TUTORIAL Begin the dreidel by stitching the first part of the letter “M”. Tilt the letter to…
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Did you buy your candy for Halloween Trick or Treat yet? Only days left… Perhaps you might snatch a few pieces for inspiration for today’s tutorial: Sweet Candy! THE SWEET CANDY FREE MOTION QUILT TUTORIAL Begin by drawing two lines or “rails”…just to keep things tidy. In the practice piece below, the lines are…
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Good Morning, Quilters! First, I’d like to thank all of you who shared last week’s tutorial, The Dizzy Daisy. With your help, the Dizzy Daisy reached nearly 20,000 people! That is a record for tutorial views in one week…Thank YOU! Welcome to all the new followers who joined us this week. Seems many of you…
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Good Morning, Quilters! Today is Tuesday!–Free Motion Quilt Tutorial Day! A Holiday in the middle of the week! Today, we are working on a background filler–a stipple banishing–background filler. (Those who have followed for some time know that my goal is to BAN THE STIPPLE–it’s not pretty, it’s not easy, it’s not necessary… To this…
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Good Morning, Quilters and Welcome Back to another episode of Tuesday Tutorials! (If you’ve missed any episodes, you can find re-runs HERE.) I hope you enjoyed yesterday’s show: The Paper Pieced Heron Pattern from Peggy…I can’t wait to give it a go! Not until after THE Wedding…. I have an absolutely gorgeous pattern for you today-…
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Good morning, Quilters! Here we are working away in Santa’s workshop and we’d like to pause for a little quilt tutorial. (Something you can do in less than 15 minutes!) Today, we have the very festive Candy Stripes Tutorial–a North Pole favorite! This pattern is a variation on The Twisted Rope pattern we worked on in…
