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Speed Up Your Quilting This Weekend!
Are you planning to do any quilting this weekend? What are we saying — of course you are! QN creative editor Lori Baker No matter how fast or slow you sew, accurate and efficient work is always...
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Weekend Workshop: Improve Your Free-Motion Quilting
If improving your free-motion quilting skills is on your to-do list — I know it’s on mine — you can get started this weekend. All it takes is the decision to give it a try, and we have blog posts,...
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Weekend Workshop: Hand Applique Your Way
Way back when, like in the late 20th century, I took a class on hand applique and ended up with this quilt. detail of hand-appliqued quilt made (but not designed) by Mary Kate Karr-Petras Aside from...
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Weekend Workshop: Scrap Happy
scrappy 1940s bow tie quilt Maybe you’ve heard the saying “Color gets all the credit, but value does all the work,” meaning that when people respond strongly to a quilt, they may think they’re doing so...
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Weekend Workshop: Foundation Piecing Fundamentals
I don’t foundation piece often, but when I do, it’s something awesome like this. Vulcan Greeting quilt block designed by Vanda Chittenden, made by Mary Kate Karr-Petras I found the free pattern for...
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Weekend Workshop: Build, Store and Bust Your Stash
Most quilters love a little retail therapy from time to time (myself included), but there is something immensely satisfying about “shopping” from my stash when I’m working on a project. I mean, I took...
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Weekend Workshop: Tech-Savvy Techniques
As I wrote in yesterday’s blog post, June 12-18 has been declared a National Week of Making in the U.S. According to the White House, “During National Week of Making, we celebrate the tinkerers and...
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Weekend Workshop: Curved Piecing Courage
I’ll keep this short and sweet: you should try curved piecing if you’ve never tried it before. It’s not hard, and it’s not scary. It will require making templates or using special acrylic rulers. And...
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Weekend Workshop: Serge That Quilt
Have you ever used a serger to make a quilt? Neither have I. Truth be told, I think I’ve only ever given a serger a test drive on one occasion. But we get enough visitors to our blog from people who...
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Weekend Workshop: Machine quilting in the real world
I am friends on Facebook with a number of people from the quilting world I’ve worked with via email but have never met in real life. One of those people is Sherry Reynolds, whose America, Let It Shine...
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