Are You Ready for a New Tiny Quilt Idea

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Greetings Quilter,

We have been talking about fabric postcards and transferring
photos onto fabric, so why not transfer your favorite photo
onto fabric and create a tiny quilt - a fabric postcard?


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It's always fun to come up with some original way to send
your Holiday greetings.

My dad always wrote a poem for Christmas. Every year, a
new poem. Then one year, my parents moved around Christmas
and the poem was delayed.

The next year, he created an un-Christmas poem that was
sent to the "Christmas Card List" in July. And a new
tradition began.

For a few years, the card was decorated with pictures of
the family, each doing something that related to their
verse in the poem.

My mom and dad always got comments on their cards. They
were personal and easy and fun to read, everybody got to
hear about what went on during the year.

But to my dad, it was kind of a chore. My mom had to give
him weeks of notice and nag him to get it done.

Why not make something that is fun, and something that you
can make during the year in your spare time.

This will be a standout among your Holiday card friends,
and they will be anxious to see what you come up with
every year.

You can easily create a photo fabric postcard from the
scraps in your stash in a short time - while watching TV,
watching it snow, or listening to some great music.

Here is a resource to help:

http://www.how-to-quilt.com/quilt-postcard.php

Happy Quilting!

Penny Halgren

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Brand New Quilting Resource from Alex Anderson

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Greetings Quilter,

Alex Anderson has done it once again!

This time she is sharing her techniques for hand and machine
applique - 6 different techniques in all!

My first quilts were hand applique quilts, and I barely knew one
technique.

I probably started with applique quilts because I didn't
understand traditional quilt blocks, yet loved the idea of
working with fabric and enjoyed seeing "pictures" created in
fabric.

I spent hours on each one of these quilts getting the applique
pieces so they had nice, smooth curves and sharp corners where
they were supposed to have sharp corners.

Way back then, I had nobody to guide me or show me any
techniques that would make my applique easier and more beautiful.

I just did the best I could.

The stitches holding the applique pieces onto the background
fabric were large, clunky, and fairly far apart - not nice tiny,
hidden stitches that would hold the pieces firmly in place.

The inside points were trimmed so close that I had to put extra
stitches to be sure that the fabric didn't fray. Those stitches
looked horrible, but I didn't know of another way to solve the
problem.

Then there was my machine applique.

Maybe you've seen it (or done it yourself) - those wide zigzag
stitches that create a mountain of thread around the outside of
your applique piece, and (if you are really lucky) might not
gather your fabric up inside them.

I wasn't so lucky or talented. Most of my machine applique
quilts had a ridge of fabric that was stuck to the mountain of
zigzag stitching around the fabric piece.

Since my early days of applique, I have picked up some
techniques that have helped, like:

* using freezer paper to shape the pieces

* taking tiny running stitches to gather the fabric around the
curves

* using tear away paper under my machine applique


I am still challenged by hand and machine applique, and once I
began making traditional patchwork quilts, I put applique aside.

But with Alex's new resource, I may just take it up again. After
all, I really do love to create pictures with quilts, and
sometimes it's more fun (and easier) to use applique instead of
piecing patches.

Plus, I have a Mickey Mouse quilt still waiting for me, and the
design is entirely hand applique.

Because this is a brand new resource from Alex, the publisher is
waiting for us to tell them how many we want, and I want to be
sure that your copy is included.

We are taking reservations just today and tomorrow - Wednesday.

After midnight Pacific Time Wednesday, August 5, the door closes
and our order will be placed.

Head on over right now and reserve your copy.

http://www.how-to-quilt.com/alex-applique.php

With the brand new techniques in hand and machine applique, we
will learn from Alex, our quilts will be easier to make and
more beautiful.

Who knows?

Maybe we will be inspired to applique some fun designs on top of
a pieced quilt!

Happy Quilting!

Penny Halgren
www.How-to-Quilt.com

P.S. Remember, the deadline is tomorrow - August 5 - reserve
your copy now before you get distracted by your current quilting
project:

http://www.how-to-quilt.com/alex-applique.php

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Machine Quilting Unleashed

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Greetings Quilt Block Maker

Are you among 42.9% of quilters whose biggest challenge in
finishing a quilt is deciding whether to machine quilt or
hand quilt?

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Do you already know that you want to machine quilt your
finished quilt, but can't decide what design to use to
quilt it?

Or, maybe you already have the machine quilting design all
picked out, but lack the confidence to put the quilt to the
sewing machine needle and thread and do some stitching - the
machine quilting way.

I've been quilting for more than 26 years.  Yet every day I
used to look at stacks of unfinished quilts.

The quilt tops were finished, and I wanted to quilt them,
but, like so many other quilters, I lacked the confidence in
my machine quilting skills, and didn't want to ruin the quilt
that I had spent hours so carefully stitching together.

It wasn't that I was just guessing that I would ruin a quilt
if I machine quilted it. I had actually ruined one!  

And another one was embarrassing.  

But quilting daughter, Stephanie, designed the quilt when
she was in first grade and didn't care what the back looked
like; she wanted it hanging on her wall.

After those few disasters, I dismissed the idea of machine
quilting for years.

But then the stack of unfinished quilts began to grow.

I called around looking for some machine quilting help, and
discovered that a friend of mine who I had lost touch with,
had become an expert machine quilter. So I enlisted her help.

Using tips from her experience, I was able to spend some
time practicing with my machine quilting and gain the
confidence I needed in order to machine quilt a lap size
quilt and get started quilting other quilts in my stack.

And you can, too.

All of the details are here:

www.MachineQuiltingAdventure.com

Happy Quilting!

Penny Halgren
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www.MachineQuiltingAdventure.com

P.S. Using this fabulous quilting resource, you will know
how to sew triangles together perfectly, add borders that
"square up" your quilt, and make matching bias binding.
All of that in addition to seeing how to machine quilt
on your home sewing machine.

www.MachineQuiltingAdventure.com

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Fat Quarter Quilts Webinar

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Greetings Quilters,

Saturday, August 1, is the day for
the Fat Quarter Quilts webinar.

This one is early in the day, and begins at:

9am Pacific Time
10am Mountain Time
11am Central Time
Noon Eastern Time

As always, it's a free call with tons of great information
about:

* ideas for using fat quarters in a quilt

* choosing your fat quarters

* planning your quilt

* figuring out how much fabric you will need for your quilt

and much, much more

Visit:

http://www.how-to-quilt.com/fatquarterquilts.php

to register for the webinar and get all of the login and
dial in information as well as a link for the Handout.

Happy Quilting!

Penny Halgren
www.How-to-Quilt.com

P.S. You will also learn how to draft full size templates
for a quilt block:

http://www.how-to-quilt.com/fatquarterquilts.php



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