Hi ,

It's been a very busy few weeks setting up our new theme on LeahDay.com, but I'm happy to say I'm back to making quilting videos and have a fun machine quilting tutorial with design that will help you quilt your baby quilts quick!

But first, our August Sale is off to a great start and the Qnique 19X and Qnique 19X Elite Longarm Machines are the feature this month.

The Qnique 19X longarm is discounted $1400 this month to be just $5899. This 19-inch longarm will allow you to quilt a 15-inch quilt block in one pass and can stitch up to 2000 stitches per minute. Click Here to find the Qnique 19X Longarm.

The Qnique 19X Elite is on sale for $2000 off the regular price (just $6499). While this machine is the same size as the Qnique 19X, it can stitch a lot faster at 2600 stitches per minute. The difference you will feel? You'll be able to move faster with this longarm. If you're already comfortable with free motion quilting and ready to knock out all your baby quilts in time for Christmas, you'll want a machine capable of faster quilting. 

The Qnique 19X Elite also has a beautiful 7 inch touchscreen display which is super easy to use with all our new tools like the bobbin estimator and edge detector. Click Here to find the Qnique 19X Elite.

Drawing to Get Practice Quilting

Drawing, doodling, or sketching is an essential part of learning machine quilting. I’m incorporating drawing into my quilting videos so you can clearly see the rules of the design. See what I mean in this new quilting video:

Flame Key is a beginner design with very simple rules: quilt a line of flame shapes, then echo to repeat the texture across your quilt. Try drawing this just for fun and see if just a bit of practice with a pencil and paper doesn’t make machine quilting that much easier!

Another exciting update to LeahDay.com is our new Quilting Design Galleries. I'm still working on these pages, so yes, they are a little rough.

Give me a week or two and you're going to be able to easily scroll through our entire collection of over 500 quilting designs and thousands of quilt along tutorials. I want you to be able to find beautiful designs easily, click the images to watch the quilting video, and share these pages with your quilting friends.

Again, this is still under development, but I'm really excited about getting everything better organized and easy to use. Of course if you'd rather have a hard copy of our quilting design collection, you can find the book 365 Free Motion Quilting Designs right here!

By the way, all of our quilting books and E-Books are on sale for 20% off this month. Click Here to shop for quilting books.

Whew! That's it for this week. I have a secret project I'm working on with a tight deadline and I can't wait to share it with you later this fall. Be looking forward to some super creative quilting coming soon.

Let's go quilt,

Leah Day