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Bring your quilt to life with quilting! Explore free-motion quilting designs, hand quilting techniques, walking foot ideas, and practical tips to help you add texture, movement, and personality to your finished quilts.

How to Quilt It – #4 – Ammonites + Swirls
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How to Quilt It – #4 – Ammonites + Swirls

Today’s post is part of a series called How to Quilt it.  All posts come with coordinating block patterns that…

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How to Quilt It – #3 – Lazy S, Loopy Lines + Orange Peel Bloom
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How to Quilt It – #3 – Lazy S, Loopy Lines + Orange Peel Bloom

Today’s post is part of a series called How to Quilt it.  All posts come with coordinating block patterns that…

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How to Quilt It – #2 – Elongated Curls and Tornados
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How to Quilt It – #2 – Elongated Curls and Tornados

Today’s post is part of a series called How to Quilt it.  All posts come with coordinating block patterns that…

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How to Quilt It – #1 – Scallop Bubbles, Fire Triangles, Swirl Flower and Drapes
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How to Quilt It – #1 – Scallop Bubbles, Fire Triangles, Swirl Flower and Drapes

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Thoughts About Quilting
Planning & Prep | Quilting

Thoughts About Quilting

  I think it’s been a bit since I wrote a post that was only about some thoughts, but I…

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Finishing Your Quilt – Step 2 – Free Motion Quilting – Video Tutorial
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Finishing Your Quilt – Step 2 – Free Motion Quilting – Video Tutorial

After you have completed your quilt top there are still three rather large tasks to complete before you have a…

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How to Tie a Quilt with Yarn { and not throw things } – video tutorial
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How to Tie a Quilt with Yarn { and not throw things } – video tutorial

  Okay, this is serious!  Yarn tied quilts have been bad-mouthed.  I have heard it repeatedly.  I have even saw…

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How to Free Motion Quilt a basic meander (video tutorial)
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How to Free Motion Quilt a basic meander (video tutorial)

We are quilting up our Little Miss Sawtooth quilt today with a full tutorial and video.  Are you ready? It’s…

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This one is called Finding the Way. It’s a mini qu This one is called Finding the Way. It’s a mini quilt pattern from my new book, Book of Many Mini Quilts. Releases this Thursday: https://meanderandmake.com/kits/book-of-many-mini-quilts/
My Happy Home fabric collection is now in stock! My Happy Home fabric collection is now in stock! 

Happy Home is an 18-print collection filled with sweet florals, little houses, checks, and those soft, cheerful colors I love so much.

We have a limited amount of bundles and yardage available now, plus two Happy Home wide backs for finishing your quilts. Find all of it at meanderandmake.com
One of the new lessons up in the Lulu Louise class One of the new lessons up in the Lulu Louise class. We’re planning our FMQ. Come quilt with us! Quiltyclass.com
The Lulu Louise quilt top is finished! 💕 Chapter The Lulu Louise quilt top is finished! 💕

Chapter 4 of the Lulu Louise Quilty Class is all about bringing everything together, and I tried something a little different with this one.

Instead of attaching all of the background pieces to each foreground column individually, I chain pieced them. It definitely required a little extra brainpower to keep everything in the right order 😆, but it made the process feel so much quicker.
Then it was just a matter of sewing all those finished columns together and watching Lulu Louise finally become a quilt top.

And now we get to move on to one of my favorite parts... free motion quilting!

Chapter 4 is available now inside the Lulu Louise Quilty Class. 💕
• Pattern included
• Beginner-friendly
• Completely self-paced
• Quilty Club members already have access
There are 4 of these Balance Background bundles le There are 4 of these Balance Background bundles left over at meanderansmake.com all 1/2 yards, all low volume.
I LOVE my job! 🥰 Chapter 4 of the Lulu Louise quil I LOVE my job! 🥰 Chapter 4 of the Lulu Louise quilt class is now available at quiltyclass.com (pattern comes with). We are FMQing it next!! 👏

I haven’t been journaling much, so I thought I’d just put a few things here…
• 🎶 - currently obsessed with Benson Boone
• 🏃🏽‍♀️- up to 4.75 mi
• 📖- Knave and the Moon
Handful of new bundles at meanderandmake.com Handful of new bundles at meanderandmake.com
Some pics from chapter 3 of Lulu Louise Quilty cla Some pics from chapter 3 of Lulu Louise Quilty class. LOVING making this one in all the new sizes. 🩷 quiltyclass.com

Cabinets from @arrowsewing
Time to cut the strip sets for my Lulu Louise. 🩷 Time to cut the strip sets for my Lulu Louise. 🩷
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