Category: quilting
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I own a bridge now. Well Bj and I half own a bridge since we bought our vacation house on the other side of said bridge with our dear friends. It has proven to be a FANTASTIC quilt picture taking place Not gonna lie though I’ve had some close calls with heavier quilts and the water… And why is this quilt so heavy? It’s a “quilt as you go” type of quilt. So it has lots of tiny pieces, lots of quilting and lots of batting! I can’t stand to toss scraps of batting so I started making these. I…
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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 I love vintage (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 automatically calculate how many…
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