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Your Quilting Stitches Can Create Beauty in Your Quilt
Q: How do you choose your design for quilting on a quilt? A: The other reason for quilting on a quilt is to make a great design and enhance the beauty of the quilt. (The first reason is to hold the layers of the quilt together!) Click on ...- What is one of Ricky Tims' machine quilting secrets?
The Machine Quilting Adventure Discover even more secrets for beautiful machine quilting in this DVD Mentor. Click here to learn more Ricky Tims shares his machine quilting secret for beautiful and easy machine quilting. (You can click below to listen to the audio) Penn ...
- What are some simple tips for successful machine quilting?
The Machine Quilting Adventure Unlock the secrets for beautiful machine quilting using your home sewing machine by simply watching this video on your TV or computer. Click here to learn more To control your stitches: Use quilting gloves to help control the quilt as it feeds under the ...
- Please explain the various quilting techniques.
Your Friends Will be Shocked to Discover That You Learned How to Make and Machine Quilt a Beautiful Family Heirloom Quilt Simply by Watching TV! Unlock the secrets for beautiful machine quilting using your home sewing machine by simply watching this video on your TV or computer.. Learn eas ...
- What is stitch-in-the-ditch quilting?
Your Friends Will be Shocked to Discover That You Learned How to Make and Machine Quilt a Beautiful Family Heirloom Quilt Simply by Watching TV! Highlight the X design in this Attic Windows quilt using stitch in the ditch techniques. You'll learn exactly how to stitch in the ditch with p ...
- Can I quilt with an embroidery machine?
Now You Can Travel and Not Give Up Any Quilting Time Have you ever taken a long car trip, gone on a cruise, or had a bunch of appointments and wished that you had a portable quilting project? Now you can learn how to make a quilt one block at a time while you are traveling, waiting, or just ...
- Longarm Quilting Machines
Banish Boring Binding. Forever! Now You Can Bind Any Shape Quilt or Make Plain Binding Spectacular on a "Normal" Shaped Quilt Using This Brand New Quilting Resource, Your Binding Will "WOW!" Your Family and Friends - and Your Boring Binding Days will be Gone Forever. Are you secretly ...
- What kind of gloves can help me with my machine quilting?
The Machine Quilting Adventure Unlock the secrets for beautiful machine quilting using your home sewing machine by simply watching this video on your TV or computer.. Click here to learn more There are all kinds of tools made especially for machine quilting, and every machine quilt ...
- How do I turn corners when machine quilting?
The Machine Quilting Adventure Your Friends Will be Shocked to Discover That You Learned How to Make and Machine Quilt a Beautiful Family Heirloom Quilt Simply by Watching TV! Using this resource, your machine quilted quilt will be fun and easy and your friends will think you took it to b ...
- What is the difference between a free mmotion quilting foot and a walking foot?
A free motion foot is usually a darning foot that allows you to move the quilt in all directions as you sew. A walking foot allows the quilt to be fed evenly under the sewing machine needle in a straight line. When you want to change direction, you would stop the machine and then turn the quilt. ...
- What options do I have for quilting my quilt? What do I need to know if I want to take it to a longarm machine quilter?
The Machine Quilting Adventure Your quilts can be quilted on your home sewing machine. Discover the insider techniques for beautiful and easy machine quilting in The Machine Quilting Adventure. Your family and friends will think you paid a professional machine quilter to finish your quilt ...
- Tips for Machine Quilting from Ricky Tims
Just 10 more of the Diamond Sets! The Machine Quilting Adventure Unlock the secrets for beautiful machine quilting using your home sewing machine by simply watching this video on your TV or computer.. Click here to learn more ...
- Why is the material puckering and my opening on my old machine is small how can I put a king size quilt through to quilt?
I can feel your frustration in trying to quilt a king-size quilt. A couple of 'hints' come to mind. First, make sure you have the top, batting and backing securely together (and smooth) to start with. Use a basting spray (a brand called 505 Basting Spray is a good one) to 'hold' the layers toge ...
- Can you give me some ideas how to square up my quilt and how to keep them squarer next time.
Squaring Up Your Quilt Once your piece is quilted, you need to make the edges even and square before adding your binding. It is easier and more accurate to trim the quilt sandwich if the three layers are sewn together at the edge. Otherwise, the bottom layer can shift and you end up with edges ...
- What makes a quilt valuable?
We were honored to have Judy Lyons, a Certified Quilt Appraiser, participate in our Eavesdrop on a Telephone Conversation. In the call, Judy shared with us how to know what makes a quilt valuable. Here are her thoughts: That’s a very broad and wide-ranging question. Determining value is a ...
- Why do I need a walking foot for sewing machine?
A walking foot is helpful for machine quilting because it allows all of the layers of your quilt to feed through the machine at the same time. The regular presser foot that comes on your sewing machine works with the feed dogs (the little teeth that are on the machine under the fabric. The feed ...
- How can I improve my Machine Quilting?
One of the easiest ways to improve your machine quilting on your home sewing machine is to use a walking foot instead of your regular presser foot on your sewing machine. It does look rather funny, but the mechanism causes the presser foot to bounce, thus allowing all of the layers of your quil ...
- Is there something I can put on my hands to make the quilt move easier through the machine when I am machine quilting?
There are all kinds of tools made especially for machine quilting, and every machine quilter talks about some kind of covering for their hands or fingers. These coverings allow you to just lay your fingers down on the quilt and guide it through the machine as you are quilting. That way, you don ...
- What exactly does a template do?
A template is usually made of plastic and has a pattern etched into the plastic or is a specific shape. They can be used in a couple of ways. As a plastic shape, they can be used as a tracing or cutting pattern for patches in quilt blocks. In the template set on the left, each piece repr ...
- How do you transfer quilting designs from your patterns onto a quilt?
I make templates from the thin plastic template material you can get at your quilt shop or online. Often I am able to find some nice pattern in one of those big books of quilting designs. Pictured here is a quilting design from "It's Not a Quilt Until It's Quilted" by Shirley Thompson. She sugge ...