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Terra, Hopes & Dreams, and Whisper Bundles – Monday is All About Fabric – #207
FABRIC MONDAY

Terra, Hopes & Dreams, and Whisper Bundles – Monday is All About Fabric – #207

Welcome back to Monday is all About Fabric! I hope your week is starting out lovely! We have finally shipped out every A Life With Quilts book to all who have pre-ordered. So excited to finally have this task complete! The book is now available in my shop and ready to ship if you haven’t…

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The Rescue Quilts – How to Clean a Vintage Quilt Top – VIDEO TUTORIAL
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The Rescue Quilts – How to Clean a Vintage Quilt Top – VIDEO TUTORIAL

I have been emailed and messaged about this topic over and over. AND FINALLY, I’ve made a little video about how I clean up the quilt tops before I work on them. Let me show you the two tops that I’ve recently acquired… The Rescue Quilt series is about finishing up quilt tops that were…

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Little Miss Sawtooth Quilt Along – Aliyah, Asha, and Jada – #5
Little Miss Sawtooth Quilt Along 2021

Little Miss Sawtooth Quilt Along – Aliyah, Asha, and Jada – #5

As much as I always enjoy block making, I won’t lie…I seam ripped the Aliyah block about four times. Lol. I don’t know if I was distracted, having a moment or what, but I kept sewing those little HSTs in the same direction, which was wrong. Ugh. Anyway! How are you? How is your quilt…

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Heirloom + Bookish Bundles – Monday is All About Fabric – #206
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Heirloom + Bookish Bundles – Monday is All About Fabric – #206

Welcome back to Monday is all About Fabric! Happy Monday! Time to gush about fabric! Here’s what came in Meander + Make this week: Hush Hush arrives late this week. A couple of bolts of Primrose Hill came in. Gingham Foundry is here. We’ve restocked a lot of our rulers that were out. Pre-order Updates…

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How To Make a Design Wall
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How To Make a Design Wall

After all these years, and after almost every single one of my quilts have been put on a design wall, stared at and then shuffled around, I am FINALLY sharing how I made my design wall. And how you can do it too! Let’s dig in! What is a design wall? A design wall is…

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Little Miss Sawtooth Quilt Along – Luciana, Isla and Olivia – #4
Little Miss Sawtooth Quilt Along 2021

Little Miss Sawtooth Quilt Along – Luciana, Isla and Olivia – #4

Time for more lovely block making! Love seeing this part of the quilt making progress, more than all the other parts. I really enjoy pretty much every style of quilt making and will always have a special place for those long chain pieced style quilts, but this one at a time block making feels mindful…

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Some pics from Chapter 2 of Quilt As Desired. I ca Some pics from Chapter 2 of Quilt As Desired. I cannot wait to turn all of these sample blocks into a quilt!!
🧵 Happening Now in Quilt as Desired - quiltyclub.c 🧵 Happening Now in Quilt as Desired - quiltyclub.com 📍 Chapter 2 is liveWe are practicing foundational free motion movement, one design at a time.Meander, loops, pebbles, and swirls are our focus this week.✂ Keep showing up to your machineFMQ grows through repetition. Even ten minutes of practice helps build confidence and flow.🎥 Watch lessons anytimeIf you are in Quilty Club, Chapter 2 is waiting in your dashboard.Come stitch with me. We are practicing all four designs together.💬 Share your progressPost photos inside the community or reply to your lesson with questions.We learn better when we stitch together.
Happy almost Thanksgiving! The mini quilt wall goa Happy almost Thanksgiving! The mini quilt wall goal has begun... https://meanderandmake.com/little-maple-mini-quilt-pattern-by-melanie-traylor-pdf-download/
So everybody I buy gifts for might be getting a se So everybody I buy gifts for might be getting a set of these from me for Christmas..😬
I turned it into a pillow! 🥰 I turned it into a pillow! 🥰
Something new is coming! Quilt As Desired is my up Something new is coming!Quilt As Desired is my upcoming free motion quilting class, and we’ll be stitching 25 FMQ designs together… then turning all of our practice blocks into the coziest rag quilt.This class will be included inside QuiltyClub.com , or you can grab it on its own.I cannot wait to quilt this one with you. https://quiltclass.southerncharmquilts.com/courses/quilt-as-desired
I’ve been free motion quilting since 2018 and it h I’ve been free motion quilting since 2018 and it has been the slowest part of the quilting journey for me. It did not come naturally. I practiced through a lot of very ugly stitching before anything started to look the way I imagined it could.I keep seeing comments like “I could never do this,” and I just want to say… I used to think that too. I was you. It really does change if you keep going, even when it feels like it’s not working.Thank you for all the love on this piece this week. It feels like I finally hit a little milestone with my quilting, and that’s a pretty special feeling. ❤️
Spent about two hours yesterday on this. One of my Spent about two hours yesterday on this. One of my many goals is a whole cloth quilt with a lot of doodle quilting. Maybe next year will be my year.
1 minute of the FMQ process at 1.5x speed. I start 1 minute of the FMQ process at 1.5x speed. I started at the bottom making a curving line to the top and back down again. Added a variety of plumes on one side, back down, then the other side. See the whole video at regular speed in Quilty Club (Chapter 5, Cozy Fall Stitches). quiltyclub.com
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