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Crafting fun using Sulky stabilizers on QUILTsocial!

If Robin Bogaert is writing next week’s posts, you know it’s packed with crafting fun! It’s the kind of crafting that involves a quilting technique one way or another, certainly. Robin of QUILTINGINTHELOFT, has prepared 4 exciting projects as pictured below. All week she’s exploring how Sulky stabilizers make the…

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Echo quilting with a walking foot adds visual appeal

Welcome back to the fifth and final post on using a walking foot, SCHMETZ needles and Gütermann thread to create a whole cloth quilt. Yesterday I talked about quilting in the ditch, practiced straight line stitching skills and examined how marking a few simple grid lines can help create complex-looking…

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Making beautiful borders with your walking foot

Welcome to step 4 of our series on using SCHMETZ needles and Gütermann thread to create a whole cloth quilt with just straight line stitching and your walking foot. Yesterday I layered the quilt, showed you how to bring up our bobbin thread, anchor stitching, quilt a grid and pivot…

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What to know about grid quilting with a walking foot

Here we are at the third step to making a wholecloth quilt using the walking foot, SCHMETZ needles and Gütermann thread. Yesterday we learned how the walking foot works, prepared our machines, trimmed our fabric and marked the center design using a UNIQUE 2 in 1 marker. Today it’s time…

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Easy preparation for walking foot quilting

Welcome back! Yesterday I listed the indispensable supplies required for a wholecloth quilt to make using our SCHMETZ needles andGütermann spun silk thread. Today I’ll talk about the walking foot, preparing our machines for stitching, trimming our fabric and marking the first portion of our design using a UNIQUE 2…

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