Machine Quilting and July Free Quilt Block Patterns
From: Penny Halgren
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Dear Friend, Last night's call with Paula Rostkowski was jam packed with information about longarm machine quilting. Paula is a professional longarm machine quilter who does custom quilting - not just the overall quilting design that you might find on a bed spread you got at WalMart. Paula also talked about setting up quilts for quilting on your home sewing machine as well as the questions to ask a professional longarm machine quilter should we choose to have someone else finish our quilt. You can read about the call below and order a CD recording of the Conversation to hear everything that was said. Our 5th Annual How to Quilt Survey is under way, and if you haven't already, now is the time to give us your feedback. It takes a few minutes and as a special thanks, you will get 5 free quilt block patterns to download. We are also asking for ideas for Eavesdrop on a Telephone Conversation guests and quilts you want to learn to make. Thanks to the thousands of quilters who have been with me for several years! It's fun to see that the experience level of the How-to-Quilt.com newsletter subscribers has gone from almost all Beginners, to now more than half consider themselves to be Intermediate Quilters. We will continue to provide excellent, in-depth information for Beginning Quilters, and will expand our horizons to include for challenging information for our more experienced quilters. Your input in the survey will guide us to provide the information you want and need to make your quilting easier and more fun. Click here to take the survey: 5th annual How-to-Quilt Survey And now - the News! Happy Quilting!
Penny Halgren Tips for Fabulous Free Motion Machine Quilting In addition to straight line quilting, there are several other methods for machine quilting your quilt, including free motion quilting. In free motion quilting, you sew a continuous design on your quilt without having to start and stop. Not only can this type of quilting create a beautiful design, but it is also somewhat easier to accomplish since it requires few starts and stops. With a few adjustments on your home sewing machine, machine quilting becomes relatively easy. Here are a few tips:
Your Friends Will be Shocked to Discover That You Learned How to Make and Machine Quilt a Beautiful Family Heirloom Quilt Simply by Watching TV!
If you have been on the fence about this extremely valuable quilting resource, this is the time. Because we are celebrating "Freedom from the Fear of Machine Quilting" between now and the 4th of July, we have added bonuses to make your machine quilting even easier and more beautiful. The great news is that these are FREE bonuses! For the same investment, you get additional goodies with this extremely popular quilting resource. Just added is the CD recording of the Telephone Conversation with Paula Rostkowski, expert longarm machine quilter. During our Eavesdrop on a Telephone Conversation, Paula shared tips and techniques for beautiful results on a longarm quilting machine, things to keep in mind as you machine quilt on your home sewing machine, and things to ask a professional longarm quilter - should you decide to have your quilt finished by someone else. But you must reserve your copy before midnight July 4th - just a few days away! Tell me more about The Machine Quilting Adventure Eavesdrop on a Telephone Conversation - Paula Rostkowski
Paula Rostkowski is a professional longarm quilter. As a hand quilter and teacher of hand quilting for many years, she approaches machine quilting the same way and enjoys enhancing the design of each quilt top. She always looks forward to the challenge of making a quilt look distinctive and unique. Almost all of her machine quilting is freehand. She takes great pride in the quality of her work and treats every quilt as if it were her own. Paula will happily work within a budget, using a simple amount of custom quilting for a small budget, all the way to an abundance of beautiful designs that are Quilt Show quality. Paula joined us on June 28 and shared her secrets for beautiful longarm machine quilting, including:
She also help us understand how to choose a professional longarm quilter to quilt a quilt we want. She gave us an idea about questions to ask before we leave our quilt, what types of services professional machine quilters provide and how to work within a budget, and much more. You can still order a CD recording of the call by visiting, Paula Rostkowski, Expert Longarm Machine Quilter Postcard Quilts for the Troops Birthday Roundup Next - Deadline August 10!
Penny's Postcard Posse has sent more than 15,000 fabric postcards to our troops in Iraq, Afghanistan and the hospital in Germany. As quilters, we know what those postcards mean to the men and women who receive them. Some who get them receive no other mail from home. And for all of them, it's a reminder of the wonderful freedoms they are fighting for and the comforts they will enjoy when they return home. The Birthday Roundup is in full swing - the deadline is August 10 Diane had a great idea to send over a package of Birthday postcards that can be handed to soldiers the day of their birthday! What a great idea. So, we've set up a deadline of August 10, and there is plenty of time to get some postcards made by then. She will send over a big box and the soldier "in charge" can hand them out as birthdays arrive. I will be adding birthday-themed postcard designs to www.QuiltBlockLibrary.com, so keep on checkin' To make the Birthday Roundup deadline, get your cards to Diane by August 10. Please send your cards to:
Diane is doing a fabulous job keeping the pictures updated, and if you have sent cards in, let your friends and family know that they can see pictures of them here: www.Fabric-Postcards.com Remember you can get FREE postcard patterns at: www.QuiltBlockLibrary.com Does Double Duty Quilt Block
July Quilt Block Patterns The July selection of free quilt block patterns includes a variety of . Click here to download your July FREE quilt block patterns
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