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To begin, I'd like to thank everyone who bought my friend Amy Johnson's new Craftsy dvd last week! These Ruler Foot quilting workshops sold out quickly, and yes, we did restock. The DVDs are back on the shelf and ready for purchase.
How to Piece a Flying Geese Border
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It's Quilty Box time!
Quilty Box is a subscription treasure box filled with fabric, thread, and a quilt pattern created by a different designer.
Click Here to learn more about Quilty Box.Each month I open my Quilty Box, plan a new project, and share how to make it with you. I love the challenge of writing a new quilt pattern, shooting videos, and creating a new quilt and I hope you will
join in the fun too!
Click Here to find the free quilt pattern on this Flying Geese project.In this Quilty Box I was delighted to find a beautiful collection of fabrics and supplies selected by fabric designer and quilter Masako Wakayama, a Japanese quilter who
designs traditional American-folk style quilts. That's just plain cool. We received lots of Masako's beautiful fabric, including a cute printed fabric panel with flowers, houses, birds, and more printed on the surface.
Make sure to watch the video to find many tips on piecing a flying geese border and you can find all the exact cutting and piecing instructions in the free quilt
pattern.
Machine Quilt Flowing Lines on a Baby Quilt
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Happy very late Father's Day! I hope you had a wonderful day celebrating the Dads in your life. We got the day started right with a big breakfast and later today we went on a hike through the woods, one of Josh's favorite things to do on a Sunday afternoon. For
our Sit Down Quilting Sunday tutorial, lately I've been quilting an unfinished baby quilt with many simple quilting designs. So far we quilted Clouds in one corner and filled it with a fluffy sky design.
The main design you see running through the center of the quilt is Swirling Water and I quilted that more than 3 years ago for a Craftsy class Free Motion Fillers Vol 1.So this baby quilt definitely has a lot of personality now with many interesting designs.
Free Motion Design #478 Cut Ribbons
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Last Friday I was cutting ribbons for a present and thought hmm... this could make a neat free motion quilting design. That's all it takes these days to make me jump on the machine and quilt something new.
You've probably noticed by now
that a lot of my designs are based on previous designs. How this works is subtle variations in shape, how the lines connect, touch or don't touch, whether the lines are straight, curved, hook, or point all play a roll in how a design appears on your quilt. So many designs can look completely different, but be quilted almost exactly the same way. In this case Cut Ribbons works like Flowing Glass, Wiggly Tentacles,and Basic Maze. If you looked at all of these designs together like in the image on the left, they all have very different quilted effects, but they are all quilted the same way.
Let's go quilt.
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