ThreadTails
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Located Powell River, British Columbia Canada
Tags quilt, quilting, machine quilting, quilts
Stories of a long-arm quilter
Latest Blog Posts
- A few customer quilts on Jul 8, 2009 in long arm quilting longarm quilting quilt quilt design quilting quilting thread
Well, I’m making headway on all the customer quilts that I received after getting home from vacation. Most of them are ‘edge to edge’ type designs and they do go fairly quickly. This customer just wanted a meander done – I d...
- Quilts with wavy borders and extra fullness on Jun 25, 2009 in Problem quilts long arm quilter long arm quilting quilting longarm quilting quilting thread quilts wavy borders
I’m sure we’ve all had a quilt like this. In fact – I’ve made one or two! Lately, many of the quilters that I’ve talked to don’t really understand how to attach borders properly so I’m going to talk a lit...
- Summer vacations and quilting on Jun 21, 2009 in HQ16 long arm quilting longarm quilting quilting quilting classes Handi Quilter king tut thread quilting thread
I’ve been back just over a week now from three weeks on the road with my husband traveling through Idaho, Montana, Utah, Nevada, California, Oregon and Washington. It originally started out as just a quick week long trip to Olympia Washington...
- Trapunto pansies on Apr 26, 2009 in Machine Quilting Trapunto Trapunto Pansies long arm quilter long arm quilting quilting quilting designs longarm quilting superior thread
I short time ago I joined a sub-group of my Quilting Guild called Fibre Speak. These are fibre artist expanding their knowledge, learning, sharing and just having fun. I’m pretty much a traditional quilter and don’t go outside my comf...
- New colours in quilting thread. on Apr 22, 2009 in Machine Quilting Machine Quilting Tools long arm quilter king tut king tut quilting thread quilting thread superior thread
I’ve just been given a sneak peak at over 20 new King Tut colours that Superior Threads are coming out with very soon. Did I say ’sneak peak’? Actually - just the names that have been chosen and that is enough to peak my interes...
- Sailboat Quilt complete on Apr 14, 2009 in Machine Quilting longarm quilting quilting quilting designs online quilting class quilt blocking quilt design wavy borders
I have to tell you - the Learning Curve is the most fun ride in the amusement park! The online class I took at MQResource was phenomenal. Thankfully the videos will be available for some time to come and I can review. I decided on the last sketc...
- Baby Honu quilt finished on Apr 1, 2009 in Machine Quilting long arm quilting quilting designs longarm quilting quilt design quilts
As promised - here are the quilting designs I used for the quilt. Here are the before and after of the complete top - The finished picture was taken at a bit of an angle - the quilt really is straight! The water mea...
