I told you last week I would show you how to make a stencil from Golden Threads quilting paper. It’s easy and fun and results in a easy, follow-the-line, free-motion quilting guide that will make your quilts look fabulous! Start with a design You can take one of your fantastic doodles. Or maybe something you […]
Read MorePlease join us for our Cyber Week Quilt Show, November 30 through December 7, 2020. Enjoy all the fun of a quilt show from the comfort of your own home. Quilts Get inspired viewing quilts of all kinds! We want to feature all the fantastic quilts you have been making this year! Post your quilts […]
Read MoreOur friend, Diane Harris, has been busy finishing UFO’s during her time at home. Her most recent finish is this vintage zigzag quilt. It’s from the Fons and Porter Love of Quilting magazine May/June 2007 issue. Diane says, “I had all of the printed units with yellow bits made when it became a UFO. Why […]
Read MoreIt has been a few weeks since we visited with Diane and the HQ Stitch blog. We are following my friend, Diane’s adventures in learning to longarm quilt on her new HQ Capri. If you haven’t read the prior posts you can catch up here. Look on the right side and you will see Previous […]
Read MoreWhat is HQ Academy Virtual Sneak Peek? That’s a great question! Handi Quilter LOVES to provide the premium quilting education you need to get the most out of your longarm quilting machine. We want you to know and love your machine and, most of all, to be having fun finishing more quilts. There are many […]
Read MoreThe QuiltCon Charity Challenge is one of the Modern Quilt Guild‘s largest-scale charity projects. Guilds and individual member groups create quilts according to challenge guidelines and after they are displayed at QuiltCon they are donated to the group’s charity of choice. For the 2020 show, groups were challenged to create quilts using text with a […]
Read MoreI hope you’ve been following along with the blog posts chronicling Diane Harris’s adventures in machine quilting. If not, be sure to scroll back and read some of the previous posts. This week, Diane posted on the HQ Stitch blog,”Houston, We’ve Turned a Corner.” Diane says, “I quilted another UFO and for the first time […]
Read MoreShe’s a trail rider, a wife and she quilts! Sandra Mitchell is our featured And I Quilt celebrity and has a wonderful touching story. Be sure to watch her full length video. And, lucky for us, she has agreed to be a guest here on the blog. Take it away Sandra….. I am so excited […]
Read MoreDiane Harris has been sharing her adventures as a new stationary longarm machine owner. She is making friends with her HQ Capri. I came across this vintage blog post from Diane over at the HQ Stitch page. Diane wrote this in September 2018. It’s all about machine quilting and muscle memory. I thought I would […]
Read MoreMy friend, Diane Harris, is learning how to quilt with a stationary longarm machine, her HQ Capri. Diane is an ambassador for HQ Stitch sewing machines and writes the blog over on the HQ Stitch page. In recent posts she has been sharing her lessons in machine quilting, and I have been sharing her posts […]
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