I am very excited to report that I am a winner. I just returned home from the IQA Quilt Festival in Houston, TX where the TWO quilts I entered in the show both won awards. My quilt WINTER TREES, 60″ x 70″ won a first place in the small pieced category. This is the second…
While at the @BERNINAusa Ambassador Reunion this week we made this adorable mug rug right in the embroidery hoop of the B880 Embroidery machine. Amazing. Debbie Cacciamani a BERNINA educator designed the project and the programming for this fun and easy project. First we hooped the machine with tearaway stabilizer with batting on top. Once we put…
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Take Your Quilting to Beautiful Places! My friend, Laura Wasilowski, has a brand new online Craftsy class ready for you to view now. It’s called Sketch It, Fuse It, Quilt It class In the class she shows you how to make a fused art quilt from start to finish. And it all starts with a…
My new little quilt Silk Leaves, which is on it’s way to it’s new home in Norway, is machine quilted and then pillow-cased finished. It has TimTex inserted between the two layers to complete the small wall art. The TimTex makes the small art stiff and allows it to hang beautifully on the wall. Once I…
Spooky Savings! Shop hauntingly low prices on select online classes today only. Click here to enroll: http://www.craftsy.com/ext/FriedaAnderson_holiday If you haven’t already signed up for my class today is a good day to do so. Machine Quilting the Home Sweet Home Quilt. Happy Halloween.
CRAFTSY is having a sale on all of their craft classes starting TODAY. My class Machine Quilting the Home Sweet Home class is a great class for the beginner machine quilter. Here is a little video I made when my class first aired last year. Go on over to the CRAFTSY site and sign up…
I am getting old. I hate the fact that my body is aging and yet I still feel young inside. One of the things that I am acutely aware of is seeing well. When you are machine quilting you need to be able to see well. You need to be able to see where you…
I thought I’d show you what I have been working on this week in the quilting studio. Enjoy.
Look what I just got – the upcoming issue of Quilt Scene magazine. This is an Interweave publication – you know Quilting Arts magazine. I have a little article in this issue about Machine Quilting. You can order your copy here. …
I will be in Manchester New Hampshire all week at the World Quilt show. Don’t just GO to a New England quilt festival, VACATION at one! The World Quilt Show – New England is Mancuso Show Management’s outstanding New England quilt festival. This New England quilt festival is one of the most internationally diverse events of its kind…
Before I begin to quilt a project I use 505 spray adhesive to hold all the layers together. I really like this product. I find it doesn’t gum up my needle or discolor the fabric in anyway. There are products that do both of those things – DON’T USE THEM – I have and I…