Learn five easy techniques to tackle any size quilt on a home sewing machine.
Design considerations, color, fabric, and thread choices. Ann shows some of her favorite quilts and talks about turning inspiration into quilted reality.
You'll learn how to spray baste safely, heat-set the adhesive with your iron, set up your workspace, and get your machine ready for stitching.
Strategies for working the whole quilt at once. Learn the secret to straight lines across a large quilt as you stitch in the ditch, mark, and quilt a pattern.
In this segment, Ann shows how to quilt your whole top across sections of batting you add one at a time.
Another approach to a large quilt is to divide the top into sections. Ann shows you how to work this way without fear.
Quilt-as-you-go techniques are increasingly popular. Ann teaches how to quilt individual blocks, then combine them.
A medallion quilting approach allows you to begin in the middle and work outward, quilting borders as you go.