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Amy's Free Motion Quilting Adventures: Quilting with Rulers: The Ruler Foot, Berninas, and the Needle Bar
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Sharing tips, tricks, and inspiration from my own free motion quilting adventure. Tips for Free Motion Quilting. Friday, August 7, 2015. Quilting with Rulers: The Ruler Foot, Berninas, and the Needle Bar. The reason may have to do with the height of the ruler foot and clearance for the needle bar and the needle clamp. I applaud Bernina for wanting to protect the machines of their customers. Check it out for a good explanation. Am I advocating the use of a dangerous technique? Bottom line, I think this is...
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Amy's Free Motion Quilting Adventures: Free Motion Quilted Wedding Monogram
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Sharing tips, tricks, and inspiration from my own free motion quilting adventure. Tips for Free Motion Quilting. Friday, March 27, 2015. Free Motion Quilted Wedding Monogram. Here's a project I quilted up for my sister. She's getting married this weekend. I can't believe it! We're 22 years apart and she seems like just a little kid to me. I will be making her something bigger and more elaborate, but she had a very short engagement and there just wasn't time. I am happy to get this project done just in th...
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Amy's Free Motion Quilting Adventures: July 2015
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Sharing tips, tricks, and inspiration from my own free motion quilting adventure. Tips for Free Motion Quilting. Thursday, July 30, 2015. Return to the Ruler Work Sampler. We went to the coast of Virginia this past weekend for a whirlwind visit of the beach and the aquarium. We were at the beach in the afternoon through sunset of the first day. Then our hotel lost power in the middle of the night so we managed to make it back to the beach at sunrise. Perfect photo taking time! Above, I've used my trusty ...
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Amy's Free Motion Quilting Adventures: Reorganizing the Studio: Part 2
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Sharing tips, tricks, and inspiration from my own free motion quilting adventure. Tips for Free Motion Quilting. Saturday, August 8, 2015. Reorganizing the Studio: Part 2. This weekend we are tackling part two of my studio reorganization. Part one. Was the addition of cubbie units to hold most of my fabric and replace a hodge podge of storage units. They've worked out great, but still need a little organizational tweaking. It's such a blessing to have my own creative space in our small house. It's al...
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Amy's Free Motion Quilting Adventures: Studio Progress and Back to School
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Sharing tips, tricks, and inspiration from my own free motion quilting adventure. Tips for Free Motion Quilting. Monday, August 10, 2015. Studio Progress and Back to School. My kids headed off to school this morning- even my little guy happily headed off to Kindergarten. It might have been bittersweet, but right now it just feels sweet. There's my wonderful handy hubby with his handiwork. I still have much to do to get this project all finished. Friday I will show you the final post in this Studio Reorga...
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Amy's Free Motion Quilting Adventures: McTavishing Monday: A Free Motion Link Party
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Sharing tips, tricks, and inspiration from my own free motion quilting adventure. Tips for Free Motion Quilting. Sunday, March 2, 2014. McTavishing Monday: A Free Motion Link Party. It's time for a free motion quilting adventure! It's McTavishing Monday and my very first link party! I am so excited to share this quilt-along with you all and totally tickled to tell you that I've got some goodies for you in the next few weeks. Some fairly recent McTavishing of Karen's. I love seeing the spiral curves i...
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Amy's Free Motion Quilting Adventures: How to Free Motion Quilt: The Set-Up
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Sharing tips, tricks, and inspiration from my own free motion quilting adventure. Tips for Free Motion Quilting. Tuesday, May 7, 2013. How to Free Motion Quilt: The Set-Up. Welcome to my series on how to free motion quilt. This first post will cover the steps to take to set up your machine and work surface for great quilting. But you can quilt smaller projects on a standard small sewing machine. I learned on a basic Kenmore machine, though I quickly wanted a bigger machine. You need some extra grip when ...
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Amy's Free Motion Quilting Adventures: My Big Quilty Secret
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Sharing tips, tricks, and inspiration from my own free motion quilting adventure. Tips for Free Motion Quilting. Tuesday, August 4, 2015. My Big Quilty Secret. I've mentioned before that I've been working on developing a class to teach how to use rulers with a stationary machine, whether a domestic sewing machine or a sit down long arm. The class is all ready to go and I'll be offering it locally on a small scale. My big secret project? The exact release date isn't established yet, but my filming is all ...
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Amy's Free Motion Quilting Adventures: How to Make a Sewing Machine Table: Great for Free Motion Quilting
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Sharing tips, tricks, and inspiration from my own free motion quilting adventure. Tips for Free Motion Quilting. Thursday, October 24, 2013. How to Make a Sewing Machine Table: Great for Free Motion Quilting. This is not so much a tutorial as much as a guide, since every table is different. But my hubby started with a fairly cheap, rickety, cast-off dining table. Read here: DIY Sewing Table: Updated and Improved. He just used some scrap wood for this. But a lot of drywall screws! It's tricky to get it al...
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Amy's Free Motion Quilting Adventures: June 2015
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Sharing tips, tricks, and inspiration from my own free motion quilting adventure. Tips for Free Motion Quilting. Monday, June 29, 2015. A Ruler Work Sampler: The Quilting. I'm quilting again. So happy to start quilting this project. It's a true sampler; the piecing and. The quilting. I'm doing a bunch of different designs using rulers to guide my free motion quilting. Almost all of this quilting was done using a Janome Ruler Foot combo and rulers on my domestic sewing machine. A lot of the basic quilting...
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