What Are Quilters Blogging About Today?

It’s the end of the week already! I’m having so much fun and there’s so much more to share with you.

In yesterday’s post, I shared tips for successful quilting in the embroidery hoop. Today, I’m using the Design Positioning feature on the Husqvarna Viking Designer EPIC 2 with the mySewMonitor app to show how easy it is to get your embroidery (or quilting) design exactly where you want it to be.

Let’s get started.

I’m quilting one of the Dream ...

Yesterday, I chatted about ruler work. For those of you who love free-motion quilting, the rulers provide a wee bit of control when a straight line is needed. Or if you’re trying to break into free-motion, the templates provide physical support.

Today, it’s all about quilting with your embroidery machine! I’m using the Husqvarna Viking Designer EPIC 2 to walk you through some great tips on quilting in the hoop.

Let’s check this out.

When hooping a quilt sandwich in the embroidery ...

I’m so excited about the designs you can create using the decorative stitches in embroidery mode of the Husqvarna Viking Designer EPIC 2, that I showed in yesterday’s post. I had to put my experimenting on hold as I explored another aspect of quilting – ruler work.

I have some great tips to share with you as I show you some samples that I stitched out.

Let’s get started.

This is the ruler foot for the Designer EPIC 2. What I love most about this foot ...

What do you think of the Integrated Dual Feed (IDF) and the Adjustable Laser Sewing Guidance I talked about yesterday? Those are just two of the new features on the Husqvarna Viking Designer EPIC 2 that will make your life as a quilter so much easier.

I hear it all the time from sewists and quilters. “I don’t use the decorative stitches on my sewing machine.” Why is that? Partly, I think because people are afraid to venture into the unknown.

Today, I’m exploring the use of decorative stitches as it pertains to quilting or for decorating your ...

Welcome!

I hope you’ve all been getting some sewing done and you’ve lots of things to quilt. This week, I’m using the amazing features of the Husqvarna Viking Designer EPIC 2 to give you some ideas for quilting.

The Designer EPIC 2 is not only a sewing machine, but it’s a phenomenal embroidery machine as well and I’ll share some tips for quilting using the embroidery model.

It’s a jam-packed week, so let’s get started.

I’m so excited ...

It’s the end of the week. ACK! I’ve got so much more to explore in the PREMIER+ ECQ software. If you’ve been following along this week, you’ve seen some of the amazing things that you can design and create.  Yesterday, I showed some of the ways the files can be exported.

The PREMIER+ ECQ software packs a huge punch, not just for embroidery files, but different formats as well including computerized quilting machines and digital cutters. I’m using the Husqvarna Viking Designer EPIC 2 to stitch out my files, but ECQ will save the embroidery ...

What do you think so far?

The PREMIER+ ECQ software is pretty amazing. I can’t believe how easy it is to use the software and how easy it is to create a design or to modify existing designs.

Yesterday I went over the PREMIER+ ECQ Drawing Tools. Today, I’m exporting a design into the various file formats.

The ladybug is a design from the Design Gallery included in the PREMIER+ ECQ software. I’ve enlarged the ladybug to better fit the canvas size (200mm x 200mm) I’m using. I’ve had to make a few ...

Yesterday I showed how easy it is to get your artwork onto the PREMIER+ ECQ software canvas.

Are you excited about the possibilities of creating your own embroidery designs? Or your own cutting files for the digital cutter? Or quilting designs for the long arm robot?

Premier + ECQ design software

I’m super excited about how easy the PREMIER+ ECQ software is to use. I’m not afraid of the blank canvas and I’m excited to see what I can create today. The one thing I’ve learned is the more I play with the software, the easier it ...

Isn’t the new PREMIER+ ECQ software I introduced yesterday exciting?

I heard you say you can’t draw so the PREMIER+ ECQ software isn’t for you. Wait! There are some very cool ways you can create designs in PREMIER+ ECQ and none of them involve drawing.

While I’m very creative, my drawing skills are a wee bit on the weak side. I’ve learned practice makes perfect, especially doodling which has helped my free motion quilting. While I continue to practice my doodling and drawing on the side, I’m happy to use the tools within the ...

Welcome back!

This week, I’m sharing something a little different with you. There’s no sewing machine or serger. No – I’m taking a look at a new software package. I’m very excited about it and can’t wait to share it with you.

The software is from the creators of the PREMIER+ Embroidery System. It’s a stand-alone software that does different things than the three levels of the PREMIER+ Embroidery System. While you can create embroidery files in ECQ, it also does more.

It’s called PREMIER+ ECQ. The ECQ stands for Embroidery, Cut, Quilt. Some ...

It’s the last day of posts for this week. I’ve barely scratched the surface of the Husqvarna Viking Designer EPIC 2 and all its features.

I’ve mentioned a few components of the mySewnet ecosystem throughout the week. Today, I want to focus on the ecosystem and how everything is connected. I want you to see how the connectivity makes embroidery so much easier.

There are days when I’m very technically challenged, so I was a bit worried if I would be able to link all this technology together. The good news? The mySewnet ecosystem does a ...

Isn’t this an exciting week? How did you like the Multi-Function Foot Control, Ribbon Embroidery Attachment, and Integrated Dual Feed technology from yesterday? What great features!

I wish I could go through all the amazing features and functions of the Husqvarna Viking Designer EPIC 2, but there isn’t time. Today, I’m looking at two more great features – perfect design placement and 9mm decorative stitches.

We all learned to hoop at some point in our machine embroidery journey. We’ve been taught all kinds of tricks to get those designs placed ...

After yesterday’s post, have you decided what you’ll do with all your free time now that you’ll be using the Laser Sewing Guidance instead of marking your fabric?

I’m so excited about the possibilities and yet that’s just one of many new features and functions on the Husqvarna Viking Designer EPIC 2. Today, I’m doing a quick walk-through of two add-on accessories and then I’ll show you something that I’m totally in love with – the Integrated Dual Feed Technology.

When you first see ...

Welcome back! What do you think? Are there any of those top ten features of the Husqvarna Viking Designer EPIC 2 that’ll make life easier for you?

While quilting and sewing is our hobby, it seems like everything else these days, we want to be able to do things faster so we can move onto the next project. Trust me, many of the 10 epic features I mentioned yesterday will get your projects done much faster.

I’m exploring the Laser Sewing Guidance today and showing how it changed my life as a quilter. I hope I can go ...

I’m so excited to be blogging this week. The Husqvarna Viking Designer EPIC 2 sewing and embroidery machine was recently released and I’m thrilled to share my test drive with you.

While the original Husqvarna Viking Designer EPIC is a best-in-class sewing/embroidery machine, I have to say the best, just got better.

The Designer EPIC 2 is beyond epic. Whether you’re an embroiderer or a sewist, the new functions and features on the EPIC 2 will blow you away.

I’m in total awe. I picked ten things that were new or have been upgraded. I ...