Telecast Thursday - Book Review: The Ultimate Guide to Machine Quilting by Angela Walters and Christa Watson

Welcome to another Telecast Thursday! Today I'm excited to share a quilting book with you that I'm sure you'll want to buy for yourself. It's about quilting - you know the last thing you do with a quilt - well, before binding, that is, but definitely before you are able to snuggle in it.

Photo courtesy of www.martingale-pub.com

In The Ultimate Guide to Machine Quilting by Angela Walters and Christa Watson, you'll get helpful information for quilting your project on a domestic sewing machine and on a long arm machine. Yes, pros and cons for quilting on both types of machines are covered in this one book, making it a reference book you'll want to add to your quilting library.

From The Ultimate Guide to Machine Quilting by Angela Walter and Christa Watson, Martingale, 2016; used by permission. Photography by Brent Kane. All rights reserved.

To see more about this book, please watch the video below or on my YouTube channel.

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I'm sure you'll find lots of helpful information in The Ultimate Guide to Machine Quilting, no matter the machine on which you quilt.

Creatively,

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Telecast Thursday - Organic Feathers on the Handi Quilter Infinity

This Telecast Thursday I'm playing with feathers on my Handi Quilter Infinity.

I love the look of elegant feathers, but haven't mastered the technique of creating perfect feathers - yet! Remember, practice makes perfect. In the meantime I'll settle for just creating some type of feather and am enjoying stitching free motion organic feathers. There's no stress to make them perfect and it's a very creative and freeing form of quilting.

Watch the video below or on my Youtube channel to see how I quilt out this free flowing design.

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How are you doing with quilting feathers? Leave me a comment below to let me know your favourite type of feather to stitch and any tips you may have for me.

Creatively,

More Prizes in the One World Quilt Along

Last week I was thrilled to announce that we would be awarding prizes for those members who have registered in the One World Quilt Along. This week I'm pleased to let you know that we have added another prize to these!

Curious.com is providing us with a one year's subscription to be awarded to one lucky Quilter. Curious.com is the website for lifelong learners and I teach several online classes there: Essential Guide to Fusible Web Appliqué, Hand Embroidery Essentials and The Joy of Vintage Sewing Machines. I'm not the only teacher on Curious.com: there are hundreds of teachers and thousands of lessons viewable on their website. There are many quilting and sewing courses, but you don't have to limit yourself to just those! You'll be able to watch lessons on baking, photography, exercise and computer applications. There are even courses on calculus, if you're so inclined (which I definitely am not, but don't let me influence you!). 

Awesome Blossom project in The Essential Guide to Fusible Web Appliqué

How do you enter to be eligible for this one year subscription to Curious.com? This prize is for the early birds! Sign up for the One World Quilt Along as a Quilter before 11:59 pm EST on September 14, 2016 and you'll be eligible for this prize. Keith and I will do a random draw and one Quilter will win a year's subscription to Curious.com. You'll definitely find my courses on fusible web appliqué and hand embroidery helpful in making your version of the One World quilt.

Register now as a Quilter for the One World Quilt Along to be eligible or sit back and keep your fingers crossed if you are have already signed up as a Quilter.

Good luck!

Creatively,

Telecast Thursday - Hand Stitching on the Janome 8900

It's Telecast Thursday and I have a decorative machine stitch to show you that I think you'll really like. 

I'm not a hand quilter: I love doing hand embroidery, but just can't get the hang of hand quilting, so I was really excited to discover that I can replicate the look of a hand stitch with my Janome 8900 sewing machine. 

There are a few things you need to do to set your sewing machine up to do this hand stitch. Watch the video below or on my Youtube channel to learn all about creating this faux hand stitch.

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Are you a hand quilter or does the idea of using a sewing machine to create this look for you appeal to you? Leave a comment below to let me know how you hand quilt.

Creatively,

Telecast Thursday - Circle Variations with the Handi Quilter Infinity

Welcome to another Telecast Thursday! This week I'm getting loopy on my HQ Infinity. I'll show you how to take simple circles and create more intricate loop designs with them. These are easy for even beginner quilters to accomplish and you can do them on your long-arm or domestic sewing machine.

You can watch the video below or on my Youtube channel to see how simple it is to create these designs.

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Leave me a comment below to tell me how your loopy quilting is coming along.

Creatively,