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June 27, 2022
Clamshell Quilting from The Quilt Yarn


Have been clamshell quilting again. After having finished my big background filler project I made a start on the charity quilts that I picked up about a month ago. To my delight they are little baby quilts in really nice bright colours. Love those!
Me in action
The finished product

I am playing a bit with Idea Pins on Pinterest at the moment. If you want to see the process head over to my Pinterest account and watch my Idea Pin on clamshell quilting (under the Ruler Work board). Would be great if I could display this here but I ...

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added by Karin 2 years, 8 months ago. under baby quilt , bernina q20 , clamshell design , hq multi clamshell ruler
September 19, 2021
Another Nursery Panel Done from The Quilt Yarn

This panel has been most interesting. I decided to again use my Handiquilter Multi Clamshell tool, however expanded on the clamshell design and made a 'cloud' pattern. 


For this little exercise I did mark a grid onto the panel though as I was not confident that I would be able to keep the design straight otherwise.

The finished product

So, how did I go about this...first I decided on the grid size, i.e. 2in x 4in and marked this with a blue water erasable marker onto the panel. As I am a very sloppy marker, I half expected ...

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added by Karin 3 years, 5 months ago. under bernina q20 , clamshell design , cloud design , freemotionquilting , hq multi clamshell ruler , ruler work
September 18, 2021
Trialing A Cloud Design from The Quilt Yarn

Working on my next panel...Have it cut to size and was preparing a backing in order to baste this up but then discovered that my backing had tiny holes right across the middle in regular intervals right across the length of the entire piece. Only bought this yesterday, so it had not been lying around here. Looks like there was a label attached or something and that may have just been ripped off the bolt. Was not impressed.


So had to find another piece, wash it and was left with some time on my hands.

Decided to trial a ...

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added by Karin 3 years, 5 months ago. under baby quilt , cloud design , freemotion quilting , hq multi clamshell ruler , quilted baby quilt panel , ruler quilting
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