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A great tip and demonstration of the process of using the longarm to stitch the backing to the zippered leadered canvases was shared by Jan Sims at our Statler Retreat 2010 in Sisters, Oregon this last July. Stitching the backing to the leaders when loading a quilt dramatically speeds the ...

Just a quick glimpse into my art/journal quilt planning journal. This is a copy of the page with notes and ideas ... first impressions ... how would I transform this concept into an art quilt. I find it really helps me to come closer to making the project REAL ... making it ...

The proof is in the pudding ... er ... ah ... I mean ... the COLOR CATCHER! Remember my writing about washing quilts the other day. The focus of the article was all about the batting and the lovely soft antique crinkley look and feel of the quilt after the washing, but there was ...

Question of the day: How can you tell an alpaca from a llama … the ears of the llama are banana shaped and the ears of the alpaca are straight.

Every year while on my way to Jan's house for our annual Statler Retreat I drive the backroads and go ...

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• Don't you think it strange when ... the snow is falling on the daffodils that just came out in bloom?
• Don't you think it strange when ... you see the snow falling and hear the tree frogs singing their mating calls?

And speaking of frogs ... Don ...

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Does this describe your pattern library ... "One of the advantages of being disorganized is constantly making exciting discoveries." A quote from AA Milne, I can hear Winnie the Pooh's voice in my ear and his excitement over finding something new in his collection of STUFF ...

Don't you just love it when faced with a quilt top that stops you in your tracks when trying to develop a quilting design plan? Any number of things can cause you to scratch your head in bewilderment. One of the most common roadblocks is an odd-shaped space. Strong ...

They say tha many hands make light work and that was never more true than last Thursday when the three of us got together to tackle the applique projects. What a fun day we had playing with a new-to-us applique method. Marje, Juanita, and I got together to work on ...

I love the feature called CONCATINATION included with our Creative Studio software on our Statler quilting machines. Concatinating is a design process allowing us to create unique edge-to-edge designs using several different but related quilting patterns. We can choose an order in which we would like the patterns to be ...

When this hobby becomes your career there is a shift in thinking from what pleases you to what will market well. What pleases you is still a part of the decision making process because that is part of what gives your product the stamp of your personality to your product ...

                                                                                  First of all, isn't this the prettiest design for an overall edge-to-edge design? In helping my friend Linda come up with a possible quilting plan for a customer quilt, her request for an E2E pattern to go with the rest of the Gossamer Collection resulted in this design ...

And a busy day it was, but very productive. I notice you all must be a stumped as me as to what to do with those left-over batting scraps. Not a word or suggestion from anyone as to what to do with them. I'll share some of my favorites ...

We all have them; we save them; we protect them in acid free paper; we shield them from sunlight and dust. We may even bring them out every year or so just to re-adjust the folds and admire them ... and then back into hiding for another long year or two ...

A sneak preview of a pattern to be published later this spring in the AQS journal American Quilter with closeups of the quilting designs from the Gossamer Collection. First you see the border design Gossamer Wings and after that Gossamer Block filling in the pieced Blossom block.

I resized Gossamer ...

Darlene left a quilt with me to finish for her before Christmas. The quilt is to be a gift for her handyman and as we all know, guy quilts can present challenges in terms of design choices. Darlene looked through the catalog of my designs and made her choices ... for ...