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24 Aug
Free Motion Quilting Tutorials

Circuitboard Quilting on Domestic & Longarm

Welcome to both long term blog followers any any new visitors that might be following along with the Back to School Block Hop for 2017. If you are new here, my name is Yvonne Fuchs and I have a love for quilt design, the quilting community, and blogging. I hope you enjoy my video tutorial today on Circuitboard Quilting,...

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10 Sep
Free Motion Quilting Tutorials

Using the Snowflake Shimmer Quilting Template

Today I wanted to share a quick tutorial on how I used the Snowflake Shimmer Quilting Template in the on point squares for my Snowflake Shimmer quilt. The first thing I did was print out 2 copies of the template (3 were needed to take the photograph above; 2 are only needed to get the templates you will need). Double check...

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Quilting Questions
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21 Apr
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Quilting Pattern Selection Tips

A lot of the quilts I make are on commission. Sometimes it can be really difficult to walk a client through the decision process so that they select a quilting pattern that they will love. I have been working to develop a short questionnaire that I will occasionally use before digging in and discussing actual quilt patterns because being...

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Free Motion Quilting Trees Design and Tutorial
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10 Mar
Free Motion Quilting Tutorials

FMQing Trees {Tutorial}

For my "Out of the Woods" quilt, I wanted to add a forest of trees to a large, graphic mountain I had pieced. My idea was to use straight lines for tree trunks in combination with back and forth lines to create the tree branches. My hope was that these would resemble pine trees or the majestic Redwoods (both...

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Tying Off Video Tutorial
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03 Mar
Free Motion Quilting Tutorials

Tying Off {Tutorial}

While I was at QuiltCon, I learned a new technique for pulling the bobbin thread to the top of a quilt to ease in tying off threads when you are at the end of an area of quilting. I turned this tip into a YouTube video tutorial. It was a new technique for me, and I can see it...

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Leaf / Vine FMQing Pattern
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07 Jul
Free Motion Quilting Tutorials

{Tutorial} Free Motion Quilting – Part II – Practice!

I want to pick back up where I left off in my Free Motion Quilting - Part I - Drawing Tutorial and mention again that I always start out working through new free motion quilting patterns by sketching and drawing on paper. I recently discussed this in my post about quilting flames on my Dragon Baby Quilt, and today...

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5 Pointed Star
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17 Jun
Free Motion Quilting Tutorials

{Tutorial} Free Motion Quilting – Part I – Drawing

There are a LOT of great tutorials and resources available to help you gain confidence and learn to free motion quilt on your home machine (a long arm is not required!). I was intimidated enough by the process that I took a class from Elizabeth Hartman in order to force myself to learn. I kept reading about the techniques, but...

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