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February 23, 2014 By Mandy 7 Comments

Quilting Tutorial, Variations

I had meant to put this up around Valentine’s Day, because one of these looks an awful lot like hearts, and it’s probably as close to hearts as I get.  In any case, these three variations are based off the earlier tutorial, with the first line being some form of swirl. The simplest variation is […]

Filed Under: Tutorials Tagged With: domestic, fill, free, longarm, modern quilting, quilting, tutorial

February 20, 2014 By Mandy Leave a Comment

Practice sheet for background fill

Look at me, learning how to use the arc tool in Illustrator!  Ahem.  Celebrate the little things. Anyway, here is a PDF version of the swoopy grid I used in the tutorial below.  Print out as many as you’d like. The first one has dark black lines: OnionBackgroundFill And this one has lighter grey lines:  OnionBackgroundFillGrey

Filed Under: Technique of the Week, Tutorials Tagged With: domestic, free, longarm, quilt, quilting, tutorial

February 3, 2014 By Mandy 23 Comments

Background fill tutorial, for longarm or domestic quilting

I recently was working on a super secret project, and found I needed a pretty background fill that enhanced the overall design.  I wanted something that looked like a budding flower, or opening petals, something organic, easy and consistent  since the other details were more like thread painting and I wanted a nice contrast.  Based […]

Filed Under: Longarm Quilting, Technique of the Week Tagged With: domestic, free, longarm, machine quilting, quilting tutorial

January 8, 2014 By Mandy 2 Comments

My free quilt patterns for Craftsy

Part of the gig for my free Craftsy class was providing two free patterns as part of the course materials (to get it, sign up for the class–it’s free–and they’re in the course materials available to download).  The one I was so excited to make is behind me in the class ad (you can see […]

Filed Under: Construction, Free Patterns, Longarm Quilting, Practicing Tagged With: craftsy, free, free Craftsy class, free modern quilt pattern, longarm, longarm quilting, modern quilt, pattern

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