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Last week I shared a new quilting tutorial on Clouds and I can't seem to get this design out of my head!

A lot of quilters requested bed quilting designs last week so I figured it was time to try quilting really big clouds.

I have to say, quilting big, bed sized designs is where this sit down longarm machine really shines. The 15 inch harp space makes it very easy to position and shift the quilt without having a wrestling match.

The key to quilting bigger designs is to quilt the shapes bigger. It's a pretty simple concept - the exact same design quilted small will take longer and make the quilt feel stiffer.

If you expand the shapes and the distance between the lines of quilting, you will make the design much bigger. The bigger the shapes, the faster you can cover your quilt, and the softer the quilt will feel when it's finished.

What do you think of quilting Clouds on a larger scale? Would you use this design on a baby quilt?

After a long, beautiful weekend outside I'm ready to jump back on my machine and piece the next block for the Machine Quilting Block Party. This month's blocks is a super cute Dainty Dresden Plate made with sixteen pointy petals.

Click Here to watch this video on piecing this new block.

This month's block just so happens to be my favorite template in the set for ruler foot quilting as well!

Creating this Dainty Dresden Plate quilt block isn't hard if you piece the petals in sets of 4 petals. This way you can square up the edges so the plate will piece together perfectly and lay flat on your block background.

It's a bird. It's a plane. No! It's a UFO!

Here's a fun new design for us to quilt together this week. It's basically Concentric Circles, but with an escape hatch so you don't have to break thread with each circle you quilt.