Quilting Designs: How to Choose the Right One - Connecting …
Learn how to choose the best quilting design for your pieced top based on its style, purpose, fabric and thread quality. Find tips and examples from a professional Longarmer and explore different quilting styles such as feathering, McTavishing, echoing and more.
Quilting Stencils and Templates | Connecting Threads
Shop high-quality quilting stencils and templates at Connecting Threads. Find the perfect tools to enhance your quilting projects.
Machine Quilting with Golden Threads paper
Quilting a Border Step 1: Draw your image. There are many popular sources of quilting designs out there that you can use to trace an image on the paper. After perusing many of them, I ended up just freehand drawing mine with a white pencil. First, I carefully measured my border and marked a vertical line, then I drew the design.
Paper Piecing Beginner's Guide - Connecting Threads
Paper Piecing is a technique to stitch fabric onto paper for small blocks with intricate angles. This tutorial shows you different types of paper, stitch length and needle, and how to rip and trim the paper.
Free Motion Quilting Practice Panel | Connecting Threads
Use this fabulous piece to practice your free motion quilting. You can use this on a domestic machine, longarm machine or even hand-stitch if you would like. The practice lines are water soluble and can be removed after sewing. There are directions inside so that you can use this over and over again to practice, or use it one time.
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Machine Freehand Patterns | ConnectingThreads.com
Machine Freehand Patterns introduces a new concept in machine quilting called Faux Pantographs. While longarm machine quilters have traditionally used rolled patterns worked by tracing the line with a stylus or laser light, Faux Pantos are worked freehand using the quilt block itself as a guide.
Machine Quilting Basics Tutorial - Connecting Threads
There are many great machine quilting books available with lots of tips and ideas for designs. Another great resource for quilting designs is the Quiltmaker Collection Quilting Designs CD series. The CDs allow you to print the designs in whatever size you need. Stencils are also a great source for quilting designs.
99 Machine-Quilting Designs | ConnectingThreads.com
Give your quilts a fabulous finish! Award-winning machine quilter and best-selling author Christa Watson presents a new collection of dynamic machine-quilting ideas. Gain insight and inspiration from step-by-step instructions for 35 walking-foot designs and 64 free-motion techniques, plus dozens of variations.
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Nine Patch Quilt: How to Make One | Connecting Threads
Before you start stitching your first seam, you need to know that you are able to sew an accurate 1/4" seam. Unless otherwise indicated, most quilting patterns use a 1/4" seam. If you've ever followed a commercial sewing pattern, you'll remember those patterns call for 5/8" seams.
Creative Grids Machine Quilting Tool - Archie - Connecting Threads
Designed by machine quilting author and teacher, Angela Walters, Archie is the perfect ruler for quilting arches in 2" borders or as an edge to edge machine quilting design. Whether you use a home sewing machine or a longarm, Archie is perfect for machine quilting everything including symmetrical arches, alternating arcs, pointy clamshells ...
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