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Finding the Right Table

June 13, 2019

The Machine Quilter frame is designed to clamp to a table, so finding the right table is really important Table top frames are easy to set up and take down. This makes them portable. The Machine Quilter frame can easily fit in your car and go to your friend's house, a workshop, a charity ...

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Events, Festival of Quilts 2018

Preparing for the Festival of Quilts 2018

June 23, 2018

We're getting ready to head to the Festival of Quilts! We absolutely love the Festival of Quilts. It's such a fun opportunity for us to meet quilters, stitchers and makers. Our frames will be there to try out, and we'll be on hand to chat to you and talk you through how it works. It's actually ...

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Machine Quilting frames

Quilting frame update makes it easy to switch frame size

June 22, 2018

Rosie takes us through our new quilting frame updates. We LOVE our frame (just in case you didn't realise) - it's the easiest of its kind to assemble and disassemble, it's got a beautiful look and feel thanks to the crafted wood design, and it allows for such smooth free-motion movement that ...

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education, Machine Quilting frames, Tips & Tricks, Tools of the Trade

Loading Your Quilt

May 18, 2018

Here’s a short video clip showing how to load the layers of your quilt onto our Machine Quilter frames. Some things are just better with moving directions. We hope this helps you to get off to a good start.

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Little Box of Sunshine, Threads, Tips & Tricks

Daisies Anyone?

May 14, 2018

“Don’t you think that Daisies are the friendliest flowers?” Meg Ryan in “You’ve Got Mail” Our Sunshine Box May Flowers line design is a daisy! This is one of my favourite line designs. It looks great and it’s easy to do. Making the long thin petals ...

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Little Box of Sunshine, Project, Threads

April Showers free-motion-quilting tutorial

April 21, 2018

A Little Box of Sunshine subscription box is just what we needed this rainy April. The quirky retro fabric from Lecien provides the perfect canvas to practice the umbrella shape. Our video tutorial demonstrates outlining, extending a partial pattern and then, as you gain confidence, going on ...

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Project

Frosty Stars – Little Box of Sunshine

January 8, 2018

We’ve been busy working on our latest Little Box of Sunshine and Bag of Moonshine! Curious? Watch the trailer to find out more. Our Sunshine and Moonshine boxes and bags help you to build your thread stash, learn new line designs and create a nice stack of machine quilted postcards to ...

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Little Box of Sunshine, Machine Quilting frames, sewing machines, Threads

Tricks & Treats in our Pumpkin Patch Sunshine Box

October 29, 2017

Our Pumpkin Patch Sunshine Boxes and Moonshine Bags have gone out this month. It was exciting for us to come full circle and complete one year of Sunshine Box tutorials! We were able to send out this wonderful fabric from Windham Fabrics by Dinara Mirtalipova called Mischief Night. We used the ...

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education, Little Box of Sunshine, Retreats, Threads, Tips & Tricks

Pencil Power

September 29, 2017

Machine Quilting frames allow the sewing machine to glide every-which-way over the top of your quilt. It’s like magic! This amazingly free movement transforms your sewing machine needle into a pencil; so anything you can draw, you can quilt. The frame holds the layers of your quilt ...

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education, Project, Tips & Tricks

Emily’s Uni Quilt

September 28, 2017

Here’s a throwback Thursday post. To go along with our Back to school theme we’re sharing a post about one of Emily’s early quilts. Emily is now an AWESOME quilter. We thought it would be fun to get a glimpse of how she got started. We made this quilt for Emily to take to ...

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