Description
This award-winning series features everyday quilters showing you the ins and outs of quilting by machine. Learn how to compliment your quilt top with machine quilting, tips for keeping your longarm in peak shape, thread, rulers and more. We’ll have you “quilting it” in no time with this informative content from quilters like you.
Discover the episodes included in this video series:
Episode 101: Stitching Feathers on Quilts with Kim Brunner
In this episode Kim Brunner brings a twist to traditional feathers. Her sample quilt has feathers quilted everywhere, in various shapes and size, and coupled with other elements such a cross hatching. Watch as Kim shows you how starting with simple shapes and adding to your skills.
Episode 102: Quilt Embellishing Techniques to Add Dimensions & Style
In this episode Cathy shows how you can do many embellishing techniques that are simple and easy and add dimension and texture to all your quilting projects. Use bits of fabric, yarns, and threads in her ingenious techniques: capturing, fringing, and flash and trash.
Episode 103: Pointers for Choosing a Quilting Design
With limitless possibilities, how do you choose a quilting design? Suzanne discusses a few simple questions to ask yourself to help discover the style of quilting to complement piecing and fabrics. Then, using quilt tops borrowed from friends, Suzanne walks viewers through her process of auditioning quilting designs, textures, patterns, and thread to bring confidence and ease to choosing a quilting design.
Episode 104: How to Make a Handbag with Free-Motion Stitching
Renae’s bag is both full of tricks and is made by using quilting tricks. Watch the video, as she shows Jodie how to create this striking hand bag on the long arm machine using her mini Ray ruler, templates, and free-motion work to stitch a Spirograph-type design, curved cross hatching, micro-fill free motion designs and easy bobbin work.
Episode 105: Eye-Hand Coordination and the Longarm Quilting Machine
Jamie Wallen draws his design on paper establishing eye-hand coordination that will translate directly when he starts the design on the longarm quilting machine.
Episode 106: Seven Easy Steps For Fitting any Quilt Block or Border
In this episode, Pam shows how she whittles designs down to seven easily mastered basic shapes, and uses registration marks as a guide to help speed up machine quilting with very little marking to fit any size quilt block or border. This technique can be used with any home machine, mid-arm machine, or long arm machine to make any level of quilter comfortable with machine quilting, whether they have been quilting for one month or several years.
Episode 107: Artistic Quilt Stitching with Sue McCarty
Sue sees open spaces on a quilt as a blank sketchpad. With a little extra effort and know-how Sue shows you how you can turn basic loops and leaves and feathers into enchanting thread pictures that will add extra interest to the quilt and convince your customers that you are an artistic genius.
Episode 108: Get Creative with Meandering Quilting Methods
Suzanne Earley shows how to get creative stitching freehand using her meandering quilting magic methods.
Episode 109: DeLoa Jones Quilting & Stitching, Full Episode
Quilts have been a part of DeLoa Jones’ life as far back as she can remember. In this episode, DeLoa Jones shows her unique quilting and stitching techniques.
Episode 110: David Taylor’s Quilting Art & Love of Fabric
Watch the full episode of David Taylor with his tutorial on creating artistic quilts.
Episode 111: Longarm Quilting with Irena Bluhm
Long arm quilting author, Irena Bluhm teaches her techniques in this informational and fun video.
Episode 112: How to Free Hand Quilt on a Longarm Machine
Dusty Farrell demonstrates how to free hand quilt on a longarm machine in this helpful tutorial.
*Videos are exactly as they were produced originally, quality may not be to the standards of today.
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