I’m excited to show you my thread choices for quilting the 3 different wallhangings I’ve been working on this week, Persevere, Be Curious and Relentless. Yesterday I showed how I quilted the body of the quilt with InvisaFil thread. Today I’ll go over what I did to quilt the borders,…
As I finish my week of playing with WonderFil‘s thicker threads I’m also planning for the fall. My mother asked me to quilt a fall wall hanging for her and I enjoyed it so much I decided to do one for myself. I pulled out my stash of WonderFil’s 12wt…
Time to finish some UFOs Like many other quilters, I’ve a “few” unfinished objects (UFOs) kicking around my quilting studio. Some are big projects and some are small, and some will never be finished! But, the ones I really wanted to work on were the samples that I made in…
Walking foot versus free motion – it’s all about the feed dogs! There are different ways that you can quilt by machine. One way is to use your walking foot which has feet dogs that work with the sewing machine feed dogs to help keep the quilt layers from shifting…
Using Spagetti for machine quilting Yes, you heard that right – I’m going to try machine quilting with Spagetti – the THREAD that is!! I’ve already used the Spagetti and Fruitti threads on my home sewing machine (and they worked beautifully) but I do most of my machine quilting on…