Sandra Pearson
SETTING UP YOUR DM MACHINES FOR FMQ This video is to help you set up your domestic machines for FMQ https://youtu.be/UnHMX6f3j4M
FREE MOTION QUILTING with Sandra
Category Archives: Quilting
FREE MOTION QUILTING with SANDRA
Turn on those expensive Sit Down, Midarm-Longarm Machines. Then turn your Stippling to Feathers In this video I encourage you to turn on those expensive machines. Then I show you how to turn the Stippling motion into Feathers, so that your lose the fear of them. https://youtu.be/fNU_7xB9xUQ
Setting up a Sewing Room
Helen Kent
This spring I think lots of us have had more time on our hands and I’ve seen many posts on the Facebook group talking about setting up of dedicated sewing rooms. As I work from home I have an office come sewing room, small but perfectly formed. Well, if I actually tidied up a little…
FREE MOTION QUILTING WITH SANDRA
Free Motion Quilting, Whole Cloths. This is a video challenge that I set myself, of using 3 stencils, 3 colours of thread and 3 designs. which could be a mixture of one part of a stencil, or a full stencil. As with the designs using parts of or all of the design. Which where (straight…
Scrapology – Love Your Scraps.
How small a scrap of fabric do you keep? The answer is different for everyone. Some scraps I have are tiny but I might just need that particular shade of blue for an appliquéd eye at some point. So during lockdown I have vowed to tackle my scraps and reduce the ever-expanding bags/boxes that grow…
FREE MOTION QUILTING
FIN FEATHERS This design came to my attention, it was inspired by Bethanne Nemesh, so thankyou to her. The video has pics an full instructions to complete. I hope you enjoy and have ago it was fun to do. send me pics
So, You Have a Question?
As a beginner in this wonderful world of patchwork and quilting, you can easily become a little confused with all the terminology and general guidelines that can apply to the many different sections of the craft. Should you wash new fabric? What fabrics can you use? What thread is best for each task? Well, for…
Blue Skies smiling at me
Ruth Garner
Irving Berlin, 1926 I just love this song, written by Irving Berlin way back in 1926, and the line ‘Nothing but Blue Skies from now on‘ really heralds in Spring. This April has been no exception; the skies have been beautifully blue helping, in part, to lesson the trials and tribulations foisted on us all…
My Sample Block Book : No 3: Cabin in the Cotton
Carol Lightburn
Every so often a member of ‘Our Quilty Pleasures NL’ quilting group puts out a call to make a group quilt of a specific block and size. This time the traditional Log Cabin block was chosen, and, although I’ve been quilting for a few years now, I have never made one! I got so carried…
Maker’s Workbook ~ Quilting
Reviewing notions, fabrics or even thread is one of the happiest elements of my role as a Blogger for this website. So when a package arrived in the post I was intrigued. This fabulous Maker’s Workbook – Quilting popped out of the package courtesy of www.patterntrace.com . It was certainly more exciting than the 10…
FREE MOTION QUITING WITH SANDRA- BORDERS. 4
ROPE DESIGN This was requested for me to show you how to do the rope design without a stencil. It has the full explanation in the tutorial. A great little video I will follow this up with doing the corners as this was highlighted to me. So watch this space
BUST THAT STASH FOR THE NHS
Lynda Jackson
We are all currently going through a terrible time with ‘The’ virus and it is affecting the lives of so many people. Not least those who have lost loved ones and those who are suffering. Our magnificent frontline NHS staff, that are the caring for our families and friends, are experiencing things we will never…