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I realized this morning that I need to get a blog post in since I have not done one in a couple days.  Well I have been pretty busy since Friday with my youngest home from the Air Force technical school before he leave for his next duty station in Colorado and my father in law is also in town from California. So we have been having fun catching up.

My highlight is that I received a nice present from the UPS man.  I got my new Quilt Path Computer for my APQS Millennium.  So Friday morning my husband and ...

I am still tweaking my new APQS Millie and one of the things I’ve done is add LeaderGrips to my machine. On my previous Millennium I used Red Snappers but this time I decided to go with Leadergrips instead. Here’s how I installed them.

First, we need to make a pocket in the canvas leaders for the tubing to slide inside. I started by pining the leaders to each other using T-pins but any kind of sturdy pin will work. While they were pinned together I made a center mark on both leaders using a fine tipped sharpie ...

I’m so excited! I installed my new, next generation Mille today with hydraulic lift and Intelliquilter. Isn’t she GORGEOUS!

I love her bow!

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We finished putting together the machine and table yesterday morning.  By the time I got everything vacuumed and got the boxes of yarn and “stuff” back under the machine, it was late afternoon before I got a quilt loaded.  I procrastinate when I’m apprehensive about doing something and I was definitely apprehensive about using this [...]

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I was a guest on the Fons & Porter’s Love of Quilting Program with Mary Fons! She was fantastic to work with and very patient. I had a great time.

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Prior to my episode being taped Liz Porter was there taping 2 shows in the morning. I got to have lunch with her and then it was time for my episode to be taped.

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When I bought my APQS Millennium, it came with a free one day beginning training class. So Today I had my class with my local APQS Representative and Educator, Myna Flicken. 

The class was broken up into two parts.  The first half was on the business side of longarm quilting.  She discuss what it takes to start and run the business, also where to get supplies, such as batting, thread, and other notions.  There was a lot of great information in the first half of the day.

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I know most quilters mark designs onto quilts, and I mark my own quilts all the time.  But, I am always afraid to mark on customers’ quilts.  So, I have been trying to find alternate methods of getting a design onto a quilt.   Remember the Press ‘n Seal method?  You have probably already tried the following strategies.  I have, too, but it’s been awhile since I’ve tried them, so they are new to me yet again.  One strategy I tried on Mickey’s quilt last week was to bring my laser light to the front of my machine ...

You’ve seen the pebble filler by now. Take a look at how the look changes when you add a cat’s eye marble to it!

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I just spent a fabulous weekend with my sisters and came home with some awesome vintage blocks, fabrics and quilt tops!  We shopped Galena, IL, but these great items came from my sister’s closet.

On my design wall is four of nineteen embroidered blocks.  My sister has a quilt finished by her mother in law with the same blocks.  That quilt is completed with wide solid sashing and is hand quilted.  It’s pretty awesome!  I’m not sure how to finish this.  Nineteen is an odd number for setting so I’ll need to adjust that.

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It’s Friday again! Where on earth did the week go!? I had to think real hard this morning to figure out what day it was. If I hadn’t gone to the guild meeting in Huntsville last night, I’m sure it would have been much harder to figure out.

The guild had their bi-annual auction last night, and what an event that was. There was “stuff” very neatly arranged all over the room. I was a good girl and only bid on a couple of things. One of which I won! It was a case of sitting there ...

My mother is a tiny lady . . she’s always been little.  She’s not even 5′ tall and has probably never weighed over 90 pounds.  So, you can imagine how odd she looks with that one long arm! No . . not that kind of long arm. You can see she was being quite uncooperative [...]

I’m happy to announce that Quilted Joy is joining with DigiTech Patterns to bring you video tutorials! The first one is how to use Line Pattern (sometimes called point to point in other computerized systems) with the DigiTech 8 point star patterns.

WOW!

This morning I opened my email inbox to a shocking surprise. I’ve been nominated as Teacher of the Year!

*gulp*

You can vote for me here.