Today’s prompt is ‘favorite tip’. I had a million thoughts! So, here’s a simple one. I am not good at precision sewing. Getting my 1/4 inch piecing seam straight and even and consistent is a real challenge for me. So my favorite piecing tip was to buy a 1/4″ piecing foot with a flange edge. …
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read moreI have a very short list of favorite tools because I’m not a gadget person. Let me start with the most important one. That would be my Janome 9450 that I talked about in my previous blog post on December 3! Here’s the next important tool: My retractable Rotary Cutter. I bought 4 of these …
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read moreYea, I have seen the blogs, looked over the tutorials and read the books (oh so many books) that say "Get a dry erase board and doodle. It will help you to learn good eye hand coordination and improve your quilting skills." I ignored that advice. I made excuses like "its not really like actually quilting", "I am not good at drawing things", and "it can't possibly help me, its just silly".
Until, one day during a back to school sale I picked up this 'thing'.
