This week has been so much fun as we have learned how to express pretty words through quilting using the beautiful Gütermann Dekor rayon thread. Yesterday we completed the background quilting to really make the letters and trapunto sections stand out. Now it’s time to complete our designer cushion. Preparing your…
Welcome back. Yesterday was such a fun day! We set up our machines for free motion quilting, did our first set of outline quilting, learned how to trim the batting for trapunto and layered our piece to prepare for today’s background quilting. Now it’s time to really make those quilted…
I hope you’ve been having fun getting ready to free motion quilt words and more for a designer cushion. Was it hard deciding what you wanted to say? Maybe you’re already making more than one? In yesterdays post we learned how to mark, layer and baste your piece. Now it’s…
Quality materials and good preparation are the keys to successful machine quilting. Yesterday we gathered our supplies and cut our fabric and batting to size. Now it’s time to prepare our pieces for quilting. Let’s go! Our pillow front will be quilted twice in some areas to create an effect…
Free motion quilting is one of my favorite things to do and I’m always exploring new and exciting variations. I had fun using applique words in my QUILTsocial blog post 5 easy steps to make a quilted spring banner and wondered could I also create words with quilting? With my…