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Basic Quilt Making Skills – for beginners
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Basic Quilt Making Skills – for beginners

Complete Basics If you already have sewn some, then some of what we are learning today you may already know.  If you’ve bought your very first sewing machine with big plans to jump straight into quilt making then this will be even more helpful to you. We will walk through some of the basics including: …

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Quilt Making Terminology – for beginners
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Quilt Making Terminology – for beginners

All those words One of the ways in which I was most confused when I first started quilting was all the terminology with quilters and quilt patterns.  It’s a deep well of words you may not know or have never heard. There is much to unpack in this lesson, so we’ll jump right in. The…

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Getting to Know Your Sewing Machine – for beginners
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Getting to Know Your Sewing Machine – for beginners

Today we are getting to know your machine. Obviously, this is a bit of a harder lesson to teach due to the fact that we are probably using different machines and machines all have little differences, BUT most machines have massive similarities as well.  They all do the same thing, but levers and buttons or…

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A Beginner’s Guide to Sewing Machines for Quilting
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A Beginner’s Guide to Sewing Machines for Quilting

Sewing Machines for Quilters Today we are going to talk about sewing machines.  There are SO many!  When starting out it’s easy to be overwhelmed with all your options. There’s also no right or wrong options, there’s only finding the one that works best FOR YOU! If you are unsure if making quilts is going…

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English Paper Piecing – What to take with you on roadtrips – Video
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English Paper Piecing – What to take with you on roadtrips – Video

Bohippian quilt pattern releases tomorrow! I do much of my English Paper Piecing (EPP) work while traveling on long car rides, and I was asked to share what I take with me when EPPing in the car IS on the agenda. So I have a little video for you today and I’m going to do…

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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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Today is the final day of our pattern sale! https: Today is the final day of our pattern sale! https://meanderandmake.com/patterns/
Did you grab your copy yet? All patterns currently Did you grab your copy yet? All patterns currently on sale thru Sunday. https://meanderandmake.com/kits/swayful-quilt/
Happy day! The Swayful quilt pattern is here. IN Happy day! The Swayful quilt pattern is here. 

INCLUDED SIZES
• 32” × 44”
• 68” × 68”
• 80” × 92”

SKILL LEVEL
Confident Beginner

PATTERN FEATURES
• Fat quarter friendly
• Simple snowball construction
• Rotating block layout creates woven movement
• Unique border construction
• Scrappy friendly
• Bonus scrappy backing instructions included
• Detailed diagrams and step-by-step instructions

Find it here: https://meanderandmake.com/kits/swayful-quilt/
Tomorrow is the day! Swayful quilt pattern is here Tomorrow is the day! Swayful quilt pattern is here. 👏👏 https://meanderandmake.com/kits/swayful-quilt/
We have soooooo many new kits for the Swayful quil We have soooooo many new kits for the Swayful quilt. Option to add your preferred background fabric. And you can see what it the fabrics look like in the quilt. 🩷
Sharing my testers versions of Swayful. Pattern re Sharing my testers versions of Swayful. Pattern releases this week 👏👏👏
There was like 10 shirts I wanted. I settled on 3. There was like 10 shirts I wanted. I settled on 3. 😍 visit @ig.threadsmuse or www.threadsmuse.com/?ref=melanie use coupon code: MELANIETRAYLOR for 10% off.
There's something about starting a new quilt that There's something about starting a new quilt that never gets old.

The fabric pull. The daydreaming. The excitement of choosing what you'll make next.

To celebrate the upcoming release of the Swayful Quilt Pattern, all Southern Charm Quilts patterns, books, and journals are 10% off this week.

If you've had a pattern on your wish list or have been waiting for the right time to start a new project, now's a good time. 🩷

And don't forget... Swayful arrives on Friday. https://meanderandmake.com/patterns/
There are some projects that give me the same gidd There are some projects that give me the same giddy, obsessive feeling I had when I first discovered patchwork. And this mini quilt wall is doing it for me.

I vividly remember 2008, sitting on Google and finding all these blogs with pictures of patchwork. Any patchwork at all. I was hit with this massive need to cut it all up and sew it all back together.

And then, every once in a while, boom. A new quilty project comes along and you get that same loving rush of excitement all over again. I’m always chasing those old feelings. 🩷
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