Category: Quilting Questions

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12 Years Machine Quilting with Isacord!

I recently counted up the years and was surprised to find I’ve been machine quilting with Isacord for over 12...

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Organizing Your Longarm Quilting Room

I’ve shared a little tour of my longarm quilting room today so you can see how I’ve organized the space! My longarm shares a room with my fabric stash and embroidery machine and somehow it all fits perfectly.

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That’s a really bad sound!

Ever turn on your sewing machine only to find it sounding more like a meat grinder? Yeah, that’s what happened...

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New QAYG Experiments

QAYG is short for quilt-as-you-go, the quilting term we use for connecting quilted blocks together. I’ve been playing around with...

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Ouch! Rotary Cutter Accident

Yesterday I was working on a fun new Dresden Plate quilt and was quickly squaring up a shape. Rather than...

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Why is My Thread Suddenly Skipping?!

Since January I’ve been teaching our full time piecer employee how to free motion quilt so they can help me...

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How to Hide Your Thread Tails

Now that we’ve machine quilted our first block Half Square Sun, you probably have some loose thread tails to deal...

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Question Thursday #36

It’s question time and lots of great questions about pressing seams, quilting borders, and troubleshooting quilting issues.  Let’s start with...