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October 26, 2017 By Mandy 33 Comments

Book Review and Giveaway: Piecing Makeover by Patty Murphy

I didn’t always care about perfect points and seams, but when I first started longarming my own *ahem* very special quilts, I realized my quilts would be easier to quilt and my artistic vision would be better served if I figured out how to piece really, really well. I stopped longarming and gave myself six months […]

Filed Under: Construction, Giveaway Tagged With: C&T publishing, Patty Murphy, piecing, Piecing Makeover, quilt tips, quilting, sewing

May 21, 2017 By Mandy 11 Comments

Trimming Your Quilt with Tools from the Hardware Store

This post does not contain affiliate links.  Despite our best efforts–or perhaps because of them if we’re improv piecing!–our quilts are not always square. This happened to me recently as I was working on a quilt from scratch. I was not paying attention and miscalculated a few blocks, so there were some dangling bits and […]

Filed Under: Technique of the Week, Tutorials Tagged With: modern quilt, quilt square, quilt tips, quilting, quit, squared corners, squaring up a quilt, trim quilt

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