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Monday, 24 January 2011

Machine Quilter Retreat

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We're hosting our first ever Machine Quilting Retreat, featuring guest quilter Trudi Wood . This is an opportunity to focus on machine ...
Thursday, 6 January 2011

Twelfth Night

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In our house we keep the 12 days of Christmas. This means that I get to enjoy the Christmas tree for one more night! It has been so good to ...
Monday, 13 December 2010

And then some

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For the feather on the last stripe, I used this tonal Diamond Head LAVA # 215 from Superior Threads. The fabric was busy, so I wanted a thre...
Sunday, 12 December 2010

Feathers

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I haven't quilted feathers for ages! But watching Trudi at the Festival of Quilts this summer inspired me. The next stripe had just eno...
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Saturday, 11 December 2010

Thread Choices

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For the next 3 stripes, I used the same quilting pattern; the Filigree Scrollwork design that I used on the table runner. In the first red s...
Thursday, 9 December 2010

Lines and Spaces

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In quilting, the un-quilted spaces are just as important as the quilted lines. In fabric like this, with a large motif, I like to stipple qu...
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Wednesday, 8 December 2010

Gingerbread Stripy

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I'm calling this a Gingerbread Stripy, because the brown with the red and green reminds me of the gingerbread Christmas cookies that my ...
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Martha
Born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland, married an English man and raised 6 children in Lincolnshire,UK. I'm keen to make American innovations in machine quilting more readily accessible to the English quilter. I take a folk art approach, helping ordinary people achieve extraordinary results. I've been developing, demonstrating and teaching hand-guided free-motion machine quilting techniques since 2003.
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