Category: Quilting By Machine
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Caroline Pope’s Table & Quilt
Another custom sewing table is created (read more here) and a quilt waiting to be finished. Here’s Caroline’s story: Hi Marguerita, I am a new machine quilter, this is my first machine quilt. I ambitiously went ahead and pieced together a full sized quilt, not even thinking about how to manage the quilt on my…
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Anissa’s Custom Quilting Table
Anissa found my Cheap Custom Sewing Table video on YouTube and watched it for a week before contacting me and asking about making her own. Then she sent me a pic with this note: Just saying hello again. I wanted to show you my quilting table I made, thanks to you 🙂 I will be…
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Nina’s Custom Sewing Table
Nina sent me her adaptation of my “Cheap Custom Sewing Table” along with this note: I recently saw your fantastic video on making your own sewing table. I was all set to do as you suggest, the sturdy insulation, etc., when I hit upon another idea. My son had a set of Enclycopedia Brittannica many…
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Quilt As You Go {reimagined}
I found a way to hide the joining strips – sashing, in our first book – and I played with the concept until I had 4 quilts made. Of course, my idea is that there are LOTS of quilts we can make using this new innovation, but I wanted to get it to you now!…
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Borrow Crazy Shortcut Quilts Book from Amazon.com!
If you have a Prime Membership to Amazon.com you can borrow our book, Crazy Shortcut Quilts, for free!! Download the sample to your Kindle (or Kindle for PC app, or Kindle for iPad app) and you’ll be offered the chance to borrow the book – then start reading!! Again – you must have a Prime…
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Sew & Quilt in Comfort
Introducing my newest book – a work of love! You may have read some of my posts, or seen the photos, of my “Custom Sewing Table”, which I’ve also called my “Cheap Sewing Table”, well, now it’s a book. The short backstory is that when our book proposal (Crazy Shortcut Quilts) was accepted in 2006,…
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Selecting Fabrics for a Quilt
I just discovered that I choose fabrics based on the mood I am in, which is often affected by the weather! It’s been raining for about two years here and I long for spring or summer. Soft, summery colors is what I went for when I checked my fabric stash for this quilt. I first…
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Want to Make a Quilt With Me?
I’ve been thinking about making another “Shortcake” quilt or else the “Easy To Go Crazy” quilt from our book. A quick and easy design. Anyone want to make a quilt with me? A quilt-a-long where we all quilt together? I have a free week coming up soon and I’m itching to cut some fabric! Let…
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Quilt Binding by Machine
There are many good methods of putting a binding on a quilt but I’ve never seen how to flip the corners specifically demonstrated and that’s what my friend Rosemary asked to see, so I made a video for her. When preparing for the binding I start by measuring all four sides of the quilt and…
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The Story of Penny’s Quilt
Back in the mid 1990’s I started quilting and it didn’t take long before I fell in love with machine quilting. I machine quilted for Trish Stuart, who had just made the transition from making patterns to making self-published books. We made a great team! I went to Quilt Market a few times with Trish…