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Quilting As Design Element, Part 2

By Diane Harris, HQ Stitch Brand Ambassador In the last post, we looked at how skillful longarm quilters use quilting as a design element. There were some over-the-top quilts with over-the-top quilting. Clamshell, pieced by Rhonda Adams, Grasonville, Maryland. Quilted by Jane Hauprich. But if you're more of a regular quilter like I [...]

Quilting as Design Element with Jane Hauprich

By Diane Harris, HQ Stitch Brand Ambassador I pay more attention to quilting than I used to. The educators at Handi Quilter are rubbing off on me! I notice especially when the quilting is its own design element. Here's what I mean.   Postcard from Sweden, made by Jane Hauprich of Stitch by Stitch [...]

The Lure of the New Project

By Diane Harris, HQ Stitch Brand Ambassador I have started six new quilts in the past few weeks. Is it because I have finished all of my previous projects? Is it because I don't have a UFO to my name? No, it is not. Maybe it's that my studio is spotless, my stash is organized [...]

2020-12-14T13:58:02-07:00December 14th, 2020|Ideas and Inspiration, Quilting 101|0 Comments

The Struggle is Real: When to Frog Machine Quilting and When to Resist

By Diane Harris, HQ Stitch Brand Ambassador I'm quilting my scrappy Gypsy Wife right now on the HQ Capri stationary longarm and it's not going especially well. This is a sampler design by Jen Kingwell with many blocks in many sizes and lots of long, skinny strips. I thought it was busy enough to hide [...]

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