Yesterday on QUILTsocial I used the guideline marker (aka laser pointer) on the Dreamweaver XE to sew the corners onto our snowball blocks. Today I’ll use this same feature to reduce the waste that usually comes with this method of making snowball blocks. Moving the laser The first thing I…
Yesterday on QUILTsocial I talked about the different precuts that are available to quilters and a little bit about how to use each of them. Today I’m using the Dreamweaver XE to sew some of my 5″ charm squares into snowball blocks. The first thing to do when working with…
This week on QUILTsocial, I’m using the Dreamweaver XE from Brother to make some really cute blocks using charm squares. If you’re fairly new to the quilting world, you may wonder what a charm square is – well, it’s one of the many quilting fabric precuts that you can buy.…
It’s the end of the week already. Amazing how quickly times flies when you’re having fun. I’ve had a blast sewing on the Husqvarna Viking Opal 690Q. It’s such a great sewing machine. Today I’m finishing up the sewing marathon and I’ll show you what’s in the bobbin case after…
Hello again! How are you making out with your five bobbin marathon? It takes a lot of sewing to use up five bobbins. But just when you don’t want it to happen, the bobbin runs out. I’m still sewing. Today we’re taking a little detour from the five bobbins and…