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Happy Easter! I hope you had a wonderful holiday weekend. I'm celebrating spring this week playing with 6 beautiful blooming spring quilting designs. These designs are included with QCT 6 so you can begin doing Edge-to-Edge quilting easily and cover your quilts with pretty flowers and clovers:

Just in case you don't have a minute to watch the video, here's a peek of each spring design featured in the video:

Click Here to learn more about Quilter's Creative Touch 6.

For these photos, I quilted each design generally around 4 inches tall. The distance between the rows varied depending on the design and what I felt looked best when it came to nesting the rows together.

So understand if these designs look too dense to you, you have complete control over the size and spacing. If you want a soft, cuddly quilt, make the design 6-8 inches tall with 1/2 - 1 inch of space between the rows and you will create a soft, cuddly quilt!

The designs are: Butterfly, Garden Fan, Lucky Day Design, Spring Flowers, Flower Power, and Daisy Panto. These can all be found within the Edge-to-Edge design folder in QCT 6 or within the Karla Gerome or Leah Day folders.

I love using computerized quilting because it's perfect - when I want that daisy design to stitch out just exactly right, QCT 6 will stitch it exactly the same way, row after row. After quilting mostly free motion pantographs the last few months, I know that even on my best day, I don't trace a pantograph design perfectly. 

There are times this annoys me and it's nice to have a computerized option at hand when I want the quilting to be perfect.

Click Here to check out all of the designs included with QCT 6 - the simplest starting point for computerized quilting!

Final Days for Free Accessories with Qnique Longarms

April is coming to a close and it will end our special promotion and ruler quilting accessory kit included with all Qnique longarm machines this month:

This free ruler quilting accessory kit includes:

• Ruler base to fit your Qnique Longarm
• 3 Piece Hopping Foot Set, which includes a ruler foot
• All 6 of my longarm quilting rulers: Slice, Super Slide, Mini Slide, Ditcher, Feather, and Circle

Click Here to find all of the Qnique longarm machines this accessory kit is included with this month. If you've been on the fence and thinking about it, this may be the month to spring into longarm quilting and get started with everything you need for ruler quilting too.

Grace Company is also running a nice sale on machine and frame bundles too! You can save up to $200 on your machine, depending on which quilting frame you choose:

How Easy Is It to Quilt Edge-to-Edge with QCT 6?

Just in case you're curious about QCT 6 and the process of quilting edge to edge, here's a video that'll walk you through all the steps:

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I love the way QCT 6 simplified the advancing process when quilting on hoop frames. Whenever I'm wanting to quilt edge-to-edge using my Cutie Breeze or Evolution Hoop Frames, I always change my software level to the simplest QCT 6 version so I can easily quilt edge-to-edge.

When quilters ask where to start with QCT, I always recommend starting with the most basic level because it's so easy to learn, it's the least intimidating, and it results in beautiful edge to edge quilting with very little fuss.

That's it for this week, my quilting friend. I'm excited to announce that I've just moved my laser cutter to a new location and (fingers crossed) will have Dresden Templates, Circle Templates, and Swatchers back in stock this time next week. 

Moving this 630lb piece of equipment was quite an adventure and I can't wait to get back to cutting. I plan to dive in to something I've been wanting to do for awhile... laser cut quilt kits!

Have you ever tried a laser cut quilt kit? What designs / themes would you be interested in playing with? I'm thinking of the fall already and bright leaves and pretty pumpkins, but I'd love to hear your take as well!

Let's go quilt,

Leah Day