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5 top tips for effortless curved piecing

I’ve been quilting for over 15 years and up until recently had never tackled curved piecing. I guess I was always afraid that it would be too hard or that it would take too long to cut out the pieces. After I purchased my Accuquilt cutting machine, and saw the…

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3 top tips for perfect strip piecing

Strip-piecing usually means sewing long strips of fabric together, usually width-of-fabric (WOF), and then rotary cutting across the strips to create smaller, uniform units that are already pieced. You can use this technique to make simple 4 patch or 9 patch blocks or much more complex ones. The beauty of…

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Do you use these 9 good sewing habits?

Welcome back! Today, I’m using the Husqvarna Viking Sapphire 930 sewing machine to show you some “neat” little housekeeping habits to make your projects look amazing! I’ve thrown in a couple of other tips as well. I wonder, do you use these 9 good sewing habits? Preventing unsightly thread nests…

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