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Anita Grossman Solomon of Make it Simpler fame shares her secret to accurate piecing. Starch and iron fabric before cutting and sewing. Go to Creating with the Experts to read more.
Video: Machine quilting perpendicular
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Andrea of Millions of Thoughts Trapped in my Head blog shares her “sideways” method of machine quilting that works so well Park City Girl gave her a shout out on her blog today and even … Read More ...
Crayon seashells quilt
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Find out how Carol Ingram from Sulky made this sun and surf style quilt from crayons. Go to the directions.
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… Read More ... Technique: Basting a quilt
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Graciously responding to many requests, Red Pepper Quilts shares her method for basting quilts. Go here to find out how she does it.
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Technique: Eva’s way to launder quilts
Scarlett Burroughs "Mamaw's quilt"
Anyone who owns a quilt will at some point wonder “How do I clean this thing”? Advice runs the gamut, from “only wash a quilt in a bathtub” to “throw ’em in the washing machine” to … Read More ...
Tutorial: Intertwined circles border
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Longarm quilter Ronda Beyer of Ronda’s Creative Quilter blog shares her secret for quilting intertwined circles on quilt borders. She points to Sherry Rogers-Harrison’s book Formal Feathers 101 for the idea. Get the book at … Read More ...
Tutorial: Freehand curved piecing
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Passionate quilter Sarah Fielke of Sewn online shows us how to do free-form curved piecing. She says, Take a walk on the wild side and cut with no templates for an unexpected result. Gulp.
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Free pattern: Simple Gifts quilt
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Need a baby quilt in a hurry? Craft Nectar has created a simple pattern that’s easy to piece and quilts up nice. Her secret is to do dense quilting using contrasting threads. Go here to download … Read More ...
Baby girl’s birthday quilt
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Jessica from Crafted Madness blog made this pretty baby girl quilt from charm packs using a technique she learned from Snippets of a Quilter blog. Go here to learn more.
Via Craft Gossip Flickr group.
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Video Tutorial: One of those fat thingies
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A quilting friend’s husband said one day, Are you going out to buy some more of those fat thingies? Well not quite. Now, she can direct him to Quilt with Us who offers a great video
Tutorial: Accurate tiny HSTs
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Susanne of Susanne Early blog shares her method for making tiny half square triangles to go into her Radiant Star quilt. She claims her Creative Grid Ruler – 4.5 is the key to maintaining accuracy on … Read More ...
String Tumbler quilt instructions
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Mary Quilts shares how to make this one block Tumbler quilt using the string piecing technique. Get her free instructions and template here.
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Insta-class Art Quilting
If you are new to quilting or new to art quilting you should think about taking one of Terri Stegmiller’s Classes on Demand. I’m always blown away by anything I see on Two Creative Studios. In Terri’s latest … Read More ...
Tutorial: Best way to bind art quilt
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Barnyard Chatter shares her favorite method for finishing an art quilt. Go here for the how-to.
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Tutorial: Make a T-Shirt quilt
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Let the folks at HGTV show you how to turn your T-shirts into a keepsake quilt. Go here to print out the tutorial.
Video Tutorial – Easy Tie-Dye T-shirt Quilt