Celebrating crafts, kids and the everyday through photographs.
Author: Amber
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I haven’t really told anyone I’m blogging again… I’m not really doing it for anyone but me and all the avenues I used before to drive traffic to my blog (message boards, online groups, business newsletters) are pretty much gone from existence. I’m typing this on my cell phone for goodness sake – something I’d never even be able to think about when I started this thing over twenty years ago (but since I was pretty prolific back then you can read about me waiting in line for the first iPhone). So obviously times have really,…
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While I really love my Juki 2010Q for piecing quilts (it really does the best quarter inch seam), I don’t love it for quilting. It does totally fine straight line quilting, but when I start to free motion quilt things go haywire. I’m pretty sure somewhere along the way (I’ve had the machine about a dozen years) I messed up something and it seems I always have strange loops and skipped stitches. I want to admit it also could be the random fabric I use – not always plain quilting cotton. I often reuse clothing and…
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Oh hello. I’m not even going to try and recap the last few years. Instead I want to share something awesome Bj made me years ago: A quilting sheet of greatness! I found these awesome spreadsheets from Generations Quilt Patterns, but they were limited to bed sizes, and not editable. I asked Bj to make me one that I could edit for smaller sized quilts and he came through with the coolest spreadsheet ever! In this sharable template you are able to change the words (“baby”, “small throw”, etc.) and your desired size. Then it will…
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