What if I told you I could instantly make you a better machine quilter with just one simple technique? And you wouldn’t have to invest in any expensive tools, DVDs, or books. Just use what you have.
Interested?
Here it is:
Get to know your machine better. Spend some time with it. I can always tell the quilters [...]
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Getting to Know You
Star Student in My Piecemakers Class
Meet Maizy. She was so well-behaved in class. Her owner, Dolle, brought her to join us after lunch, and she was such a dear. Not even one bark.
We had so much fun at the Piecemakers’ Machine Quilting class in Cumming, Ga. We had hand-quilters, brand new quilters, and machine quilters who [...]
Home Sweet Home
My kids missed me while I was gone, and one of their favorite ways to spend time together is drawing. I was exhausted and dragged myself into this, but as always with anything creative, I had a blast doing it.
This is a teapot pincushion in the Mary Engrelbreit Home magazine, spring issue. How [...]
A Sea of Fabric
Wow. I feel dwarfed by this quilt when I’m at my machine. It takes me, my sewing table, and a chair to hold it all. But we’re plugging along, block-by-block, and it’s almost done.
I’m spending 80% of my time wrestling, ahem, nudging, the quilt through my machine, and the other 20% actually [...]
Letting Go . . . Not!
I couldn’t do it. I had the best of intentions, but when it came time to part with Emily’s UGA quilt top, I just knew it belonged to my hands to quilt. Not literally hand-quilting, but the quilting design and the machine quilting I wanted to do. So here it is, being [...]
Machine Quilters’ Top Dilemma
The number one question I’m asked in my machine quilting classes is this:
How do I decide what quilting design to use in my quilt?
My answer?
Decide on what your quilt needs.
Let’s really look at my answer. First, this is your quilt. No one else’s, so it should look like your quilt. Don’t copy [...]
Longarm Quilting: Best of Show?
The East Cobb Quilt Guild show was last weekend and I attended with my friend Karen. Lots of beautiful quilts, both traditional and contemporary. I was astonished at the number of quilts that had been quilted by a paid longarm quilter, and was even more taken aback to find the Best of [...]
