Let’s chat 2 up coming Sew Alongs!

I did a video chat about two up coming sew alongs using my books.

You have been making some basic quilts, but only following videos, now you want to use a pattern and are not really sure how the directions work. My skill building sew along will answer those questions and much more!

Most of us are quilting our own quilts on the same machine we piece with. And doing a huge quilts is daunting, and freemotion is scary.  I will show you how easy it is to quilt in sections with your walking foot, everyone is successful!

I’ll be giving you ‘bonus’ tips, like showing you one Quilt as You go  method to attach units you quilted. 

At the end is the video i did telling you about it!

Skill Building Sew Along

Using my Teach me to Make my First Quilt, we’ll do a series of lessons. This is for

• Those that never made a quilt
• But even more so, for those that are self taught, not quilted very long, have not made one in a long time. We’ll fill in all those knowledge gaps by making several projects from my book
• And I really hope many of you teach someone else to quilt. Someone in your family, a neighbor, a co-worker or a friend. 

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Quilt Your Own quilt

You can quilt your own quilt and I’ll show you how to use the walking foot technique on our Grandma’s Kitchen.

Sewing the top 2 rows together will allow us to have a large unit, but not too large to maneuver in the machine. 

If you don’t want to use your Grandma’s Kitchen project for this, find another project you can quilt in sections.

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To Do Now

1. If you want to do Quilt as You go, Sew the top 2 rows together. If you want to have less bulk, then do one row at a time
2. Buy my Machine quilting Book … I found it  on sale!  
3. Get Batting on SALE!
4. SALE fabrics for Backing

BACKING ESTIMATE

Grandma’s kitchen top with a 2″ wide border all around is 62″ x 81″

FULL QUILT

•  add 8″ to give a backing size of 70″ x 79″
•  FULL QUILT backing needed is 5 yds

Quilt As You Go (QAYG) in 3 sections –  

• add 6″ for quilting EACH of the 3 strips. I add a bit less as it’s easier to adjust and place a small unit than a large unit
• It is easiest for me to calculate by add 18″ for the length which covers the 3 units each having larger backing. Then just 6″ for the width, backing is  68″ x 99″
• QAYG backing needed is 6 1/4 yds

Get your backing ready to cut for the next assignment

All the Goodies

• All my books Machine quilting on sale!  
• Batting on SALE!
• Kwik Clip for basting
• I’m sewing on a Baby lock Destiny II 
  My furniture is Koala Studios 

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