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April 2013 – Debbie Wendt

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How to Construct a Quilt on Your Longarm: From Piecing to Binding!
Debbie Wendt shows us how to piece and bind a quilt on a longarm by demonstrating her quilt-as-you-go method. She shares with us how she creates contrasting strippy, amish bars, and crazy quilts completely on the longarm. Check out an easily adjustable Amish Bars Pattern featured in Easy Quilts Spring 2008.

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March 2013 – Lisa Calle

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Magnificent Medallions with Lisa Calle
Learn a fun and easy way to design beautiful and unique center medallions for your quilts by using existing quilt blocks as a base for your drawing. This requires no measuring! It’s a simple as connecting the dots. In the first segment Lisa Calle gives us an overview of the design technique and the tools she uses.

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February 2013 – Mary Covey

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Longarm Quilting Freedom with Free Motion
After years of using pantographs and studying quilting designs of all types, Mary realized that most patterns are created from a few basic shapes. Once you learn those shapes and the combinations that can be made with them your free motion possibilities are endless.

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January 2013 – Mindy Wylie

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Look What You Can Do With Your Longarm! with Mindy Wylie
When Mindy Wylie wanted to quilt swag designs on her quilts, she found no tools to help her. So, she developed her own! Mindy joins Jodie to show how to stitch fabulous swags using her templates. Learn how to turn corners, and where to start so border swags meet correctly in the middle.

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December 2012 – Renae Allen

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Skill Builders with Renae Allen
Longarm teacher Renae Allen realized that her students needed a project before the project so they could build on basic skills. They needed to learn the rhythm, the motion, the repetitive motion and the motor skills of longarm stitching. She developed Skill Builders, a fabric printed with all kinds of lines to use as a stitching guide. Arrows and numbers show the thread path minimizing stops and starts. Renae demonstrates using the Versa Tool byHandi Quilter to make smooth lines. And for the person who can’t stand to throw anything away, she shows a large tote bag made by using the fabric with a pretty backing.

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November 2012 – Cathy Wiggins

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Realistic Quilting for Pictorial Quilts with Cathy Wiggins
Cathy Wiggins has come a long way from her background in telecommunications with degrees in math and software engineering to teaching quilting. She always had painted with watercolors and acrylics on paper, but now is painting on fabric and using fusibles extensively. She’s known for her whimsical designs but is now moving towards more realism in her work. Fusibles present their own set of challenges when quilting through all the layers and Cathy gives us lots of hints. She uses Hobbs Bonded Fibers 80/20 batting with an additional layer of wool batting on top. Superior Threads 30 or 40 weight threads also give a perfect finished look by filling the holes made by the needle. Consistency is the key…don’t add too many elements to the quilting design. Cathy shows us how easy it is to add grass and foliage designs as fillers. Remember…always start quilting at the bottom of the quilt and work up as you can see where you’ve been.

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October 2012 – Heather Purcell

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It’s All About the Thread
Heather Purcell, a.k.a. Mother Superior, joins Jodie to tell us all about threads, specifically Superior Threads which she owns with her husband Bob. She presents a quilt show of quilts she has designed to showcase each of their special threads. In this segment, Heather tells us why the strong core of Superior metallic keeps it from fraying and breaking as other brands do and she adds helpful hints for perfect stitching. Next up, quilts stitched with Rainbow threads showing how effective the 1” color changes are. Then, the ever-useful Superior MonoPoly invisible thread which is made from monofilament polyester rather than the normal nylon making it soft rather than wiry.

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September 2012 – Kimmy Brunner

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Third Time’s a Charm
For her third appearance on Quilt It! The Longarm Quilting Show Kimmy Brunner shows us that if you are looking for precision work that mimics the perfection of computerized quilting, templates and rulers are your new best friend. Kimmy uses templates on almost every quilt either to create intricate and precise designs or to create the bones or skeleton of the design that she will later fill in with freehand work. Using a couple of her favorite template she stitches out a star design that works for blocks, borders and sashing and follows up with a review of what you’ll need to get started.

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August 2012 – Leslie Main

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Quilt (and Way More) Like a Pro
Shop owner Leslie Main shows us the ins and outs of the HQ Pro-Stitcher, the most advanced computerized quilting software available for the home longarm quilter. With the touch of a few buttons she makes a placemat from piecing to quilting to attaching the binding right on the longarm with the machine magically stitching away on its own with perfect precision. Plus she demonstrates several methods of applique so you can choose your favorite. Wow! Technology brings the art of quilting to the 21st century.

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July 2012 – Ellen Anne Eddy

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The Magical World of Longarm Quilting Artist Ellen Anne Eddy
The longarm machine was invented for quilting quilts, or so we thought. Leave it to the imagination of gifted artists like Ellen Anne Eddy to take the longarm to places that astound us. The longarm machine and threads become her pen and ink and her hand painted fabrics are the paper as she quilts, bringing her magical world of colorful creatures to life before our eyes.

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