Here is the promised tutorial on free motion quilting! In my country quilting is unknown to most people that is why I had to learn all by myself. Can you believe that the hardest thing I had to understand was stitching in the ditch? I had no one to tell me “Don’t do this, it is wrong” so I do some things in my own manner. They make my quilting easier and I use them all the time.Here are some … [Read more...]
Meet my assistant
I am working hard for the October tutorial and Pepe is of much help.He is the first tester of the fabrics I use...When I sew he can't stay with me because he likes to eat threads...and batting... and I have to hide all the pins...I think I could let him to eat water soluble thread... but it is too expensive ... He brings us so much joy... He is a lucky kitten, we saved him from the streets... … [Read more...]
I am back at work
I didn’t sew anything in the last weeks. We made some renovations in our home, painted the walls and other hard things like these. My husband had a few days off, but we both worked at home. Now I am back to my quilts. I cannot sew because my sewing machine needed a few small repairs and only at the end of the week I will have it back home. But I have a lot of work to do on my … [Read more...]
Tutorial – Designing with Electric Quilt
After the tutorial I wrote a few months ago about how to design wreaths using Electric Quilt software, here are a few other ideas to help you draw more complex designs.Even if you don't have EQ, you can still use some of the principles shown here for drawing your own design on paper. Let's start drawing this design ( this is one of my shadow trapunto quilts - you can see other designs … [Read more...]
Memories from Paris
I usually order my fabrics online, so Paris was heaven for me. In Montmartre there are a lot of fabrics stores. I saw and touched hundreds of bolts of fabrics, I was exhausted after 4-5 hours...I stayed away from quilting fabrics ( imported from USA- 14 euro/yard), but I bought a few wonderful fabrics for my future bags.Heavyweight cottonSynthetic suede and velveteen (a kind of velvet made from … [Read more...]
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