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The Machine Quilting Adventure

Welcome to The Machine Quilting Adventure where we will explore machine quilting together.

And first, to make the quilt.....Yes, the e-course includes step-by-step lessons for making the quilt.

Lessons and Worksheets for everything from figuring out how big to make the quilt and each block, through calculating your fabric requirements and all the way to binding and finishing your quilt.

You will have everything you need, every step along the way.

And at the end, following along with us, you will have a completed quilt!

Look below to see the resources available - Lessons are labeled, Worksheets are in the Download Library listed under "MQ Adventure," and check in to the MQ Discussion Forum.

Enjoy The Adventure and

Happy Quilting!
Penny Halgren
TheQuiltingCoach.com

Picking Your Machine Quilting Design

We think there's only one pattern or one way that it's going to work. Well the first thing that's going to depend is your level of expertise. How much experience you have? What kind of shapes . . . keep reading

Lesson 14 - Label Your Quilt
Many quilters enjoy being anonymous. A group of quilters will get together and make a dozen quilts, then give them away to a worthy cause without sticking around for any recognition. . . . keep reading

How to Tie a Knot in a Thread so You Can Easily Hide it Inside Your Quilt
Using this technique, you can easily hide your knot inside your quilt. . . . keep reading

How to Blindstitch
Watch to see how to stitch a label onto your quilt so your stitches don't show. . . . keep reading

Lesson 13 - Binding Your Quilt
Binding is the next addition to your quilt. This is the fabric that goes all the way around the outside of the quilt, closes in the edges, and is the final "frame" of your picture. . . . keep reading

Machine Quilting Designs
Here are images of the machine quilting designs. . . . keep reading

Determining Fabric Requirements for Binding
Binding your quilt is one of the last steps to completion. To determine the fabric requirements for your binding, you need to make a couple of decisions. . . . keep reading

Lesson 12 - Machine Quilting
Ah, the time has arrived to begin the process of machine quilting. The first step is to take a look at your quilt and decide how it should be quilted -- i.e., where you will quilt, and what the design will be. . . . keep reading

Gloves for Machine Quilting
It turns out that in free motion quilting, the machine quilter's hands serve as the feed dogs in directing the quilt under the needle. Why not make your quilting easier with gloves? . . . keep reading

Machine Quilting Tips - Layering your Quilt
QuiltingCoach Penny
Expert Machine Quilter, Pam Bauer, shares her secrets to successful machine quilting. Some keys are in how you prepare your layers and layer them. . . . keep reading

Attic Windows - Alternative Border #5
QuiltingCoach Penny
Machine Adventurer Quilters have requested instructions for adding a border with a design. Square in Square was the most popular of the designs, and here are the instructions. . . . keep reading

Border #5 - Square in Square Block
QuiltingCoach Penny
Instructions for the Square in Square Quilt Block. This is the block used in the Alternative Border for the Attic Windows quilt, and could easily be used in other quilts. . . . keep reading

Lesson 11 - Planning Your Quilting Design
Planning your quilting design may be one of the most challenging aspects of making a quilt. Every quilter has their own idea of how to pick a great quilting design, and hundreds of books have been written showing thousands of quilting designs to choose from. . . . keep reading

Lesson 10 -- Practice Machine Quilting

It seems that all good machine quilters agree -- practice makes perfect.

As I talked to expert machine quilter Pam Bauer, she said that she always machine quilts a practice square before she starts quilting a quilt.

. . . keep reading

There I was, it was 5:00 Saturday afternoon, and I did not have an extension table for my new sewing machine....
QuiltingCoach Penny
It was an exciting day in La Mesa, California. I was able to visit my local quilt shop that usually has everything, JoAnn's, which has almost everything else, and my local Sew and Vac which should have everything that goes with a brand new sewing machine. . . . keep reading

Lesson 9 - Layering Your Quilt
One look at the back of your quilt top with all of the seam allowances and hanging threads showing is enough to see that leaving it that way just won't work! In this step you will layer your quilt -- adding batting and a backing. . . . keep reading

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