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Old 06-18-2011, 03:43 AM
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patchsamkim
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Originally Posted by annesthreads
I wrote to Leah Day for advice a while ago, and one thing she said was - just put a quilt on your machine, with the same colour threads top and bottom so that mistakes don't show so much - and quilt it. Sounds so simple, but I realised that, for me anyway, she was right - I was so afraid of making mistakes that the tops were piling up while I put off quilting them.
Baby quilts are great for practicing on...they aren't going to care what the quilting looks like...practicing on squares is ok for a couple of squares...but then it is more fun to learn/practice on an actual quilt!
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