Elaine Theriault is a teacher, writer and pattern designer who is completely obsessed with quilting. Elaine’s Tech Tips column (originally published in A Needle Pulling Thread magazine) is now available online in e-book format at QUILTsocial.com.
When not quilting, she enjoys spending time with her two dogs, Lexi and Murphy, or can be found cycling across the country. Her blog is crazyquilteronabike.blogspot.com.
Today, we start a new project. It’s a rag quilt and a perfect opportunity to practice free motion quilting. Here are tips for using the free motion foot you don’t want to miss. The Husqvarna Viking Sapphire 960Q is a fabulous sewing machine for free motion quilting. If you want…
Today, we’re going to look at a different presser foot and features of the Husqvarna Viking Sapphire 960Q that will make sewing those Y seams a snap. People shy away from Y seams and yet, there’s nothing to them when you know what you’re doing. I recently made some cube…
Did you organize your presser feet? Yesterday, I provided a couple of ideas for getting them organized. At the very minimum, I hope you put all your presser feet in one safe place! Today, I’m going to use the Husqvarna Viking Sapphire 960Q to stitch the binding on a quilt.…
Welcome back to another week of fun with the Husqvarna Viking Sapphire 960Q. This is such an awesome sewing machine and I can’t get enough of it. This time, we’re going to explore some techniques that use different presser feet and how each, along with the features of Sapphire 960Q,…
This week on QUILTsocial flew by exploring the many capabilities of the Husqvarna Viking Designer Jade | 35. To wrap it up, I’d love to share my top 10 reasons why I love this sewing machine. Can you guess what any of them might be? Let’s have a look. Number…