Old 02-27-2018, 05:04 AM
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Bobbielinks
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If you have an old sheet or a piece of muslin, make yourself a practice quilt sandwich loaded on your machine. You can use a ruler and marker to draw squares, rectangles or circles as if it were a pieced top. Then play with quilting stitches within these marked areas. Do you have a laser light or pointer on your machine? It so maybe you have some children's coloring books or can print coloring pages from a computer? Take these pages and mark a beginning and ending stitching line on them. Lay them down on your setup as you would a pantograph pattern and practice following the drawings. Without thread at first, then thread the machine and play with them on your practice piece. Relax and have fun!
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