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To Prewash or Not? Et cetera.

By Diane Harris, HQ Stitch Brand Ambassador When I started quilting 35 years ago, it was recommended (by whom I can't recall) that people prewash their fabrics before making a quilt. So I did. When I came home with a fabric purchase, I dutifully clipped off a corner as instructed by the Quilting Gods and [...]

Background Texture Quilting

By Diane Harris, HQ Stitch Brand Ambassador I'm working on new class samples for a Pine Burr class I'm teaching in the fall, and I had several pieces I wanted to applique to a textured background. I've had consistently good performance on the HQ Stitch 710 for machine quilting, so that's where I turned again. [...]

Make a Nametag for Quilters on HQ Stitch 710

If you start playing with the decorative stitches on your machine, the ideas for how to use them will begin to pile up. I’ve been meaning to make a new nametag for quilt events and the ease of the HQ Stitch 710 prompted me to get going. My instructions for how to make a quilter’s [...]

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