free motion quilting

Have you assembled the essential tools for successful machine quilting that I posted yesterday? If you did – great! If you didn’t what are you waiting for? This week, I’m having great fun with machine quilting on the Husqvarna Viking Designer Topaz 50 which in addition to being an awesome …

I’m so excited to be back with the Husqvarna Viking Designer Topaz 50 sewing and embroidery machine. I’ve been sewing up a storm and there isn’t anything that this machine can’t handle! This week, I’m focusing on machine quilting. A quick confession – I’m a long arm quilter, although I …

I’m back with the finishing steps to my little quilted bags for my knitting projects, but first I want to share some more pictures of my stitching exercises with WonderFil’s Accent and Spagetti and Fruitti. Fruitti Spagetti and Fruitti are 12wt Egyptian cotton threads that have been double-gassed and are …

The creative 3.0 is a machine full of built-in stitches and possibilities. In yesterday’s post, I introduced 10 features that I enjoy and use when quilting on the creative 3.0. In today’s post, I’ll take you through my first adventure in free motion quilting which was made possible with the …

Yesterday, I showed you how I used many of the decorative stitches on the Brother NQ900 to machine applique the center of our baby quilt. I really loved how each of the different stitches looked on the applique shapes! Today, we’re going to add the borders to the center panel! …