Quilting Tutorials

A few weeks ago while teaching a ruler quilting class, I mentioned to one of my students that on my longarm, I have to hold my ruler with my left hand and guide the machine with my right. My brain just doesn’t work to guide the machine with just my left, even along the edge of a ruler. This particular student just happens to be a counselor and is all about brain stuff. She mentioned, “but just think how much more creative you might be if you force yourself to use your right hand to hold the rulers.” I immediately...

If you are anything like us, you are drowning in little scraps of fabric. You hate to throw them away, but what are you going to do with all of them? We now have a solution for you. We designed this little flower as the perfect scrap buster. It uses up all your little scraps that aren’t really usable in other patterns. The block finishes at 7″ square. For this project, you are going to need background scrap ranging from this to this, green scraps for the leaves and stems ranging from this to this, and a variety of colored...

Did you start FMQ on a regular machine? Is that the best way to try out FMQ? I did. I actually learned Free Motion Quilting right after I made my first quilt. The very first one I did, I hand quilted, but then knew I wouldn’t get far if I kept doing that (it was a baby quilt and took me 2 1/2 years to finish). My mom had recently taken some free motion quilting classes and showed me what she had learned, so I tried it and was hooked from the beginning. I have quilted every quilt I’ve made....

What is the most common thread you use when there are a lot of color changes in the top? And bobbin? I am not one to constantly change thread color (unless that is what a client requests). I’ve found, that for the most part, the quilting blends well enough that I can use the same color.  For example, my Christmas Whirl quilt (the first photo) was done completely in white, regardless of the bold red, greens, and yellows. Currently I use Glide 40 wt in most of my quilts, top and bottom. 95% of the time, if I have white...

Yes, it’s official, we are starting a blog. We’ve been talking about it for a while, and decided it’s finally time to set it up and have one place we can share all the amazing quilty goodness we have rolling around inside of our heads. So, what can you expect? We’ll write about tutorials, tips, new fabrics and designers we love, quilting plans in detail with lots of inspirational photos and love and encouragement! To make sure you don’t miss any content, take a moment to enter your email address to the form on the right and we’ll send you...