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With literally thousands of pantograph designs available today, you can quilt anything from a simple swirling pattern to an elaborate cityscape scene across your quilt.

Mini quilts are a wonderful way to accomplish a particular pattern or technique without investing lots of dollars into fabric and batting.

Our machines move so freely that it is easy to forget how to effectively use straight line quilting to add drama and emphasis to a quilt top.

To keep the viewer’s attention focused on your masterpiece longer, use one of the following techniques to add movement to your work.

Ruler work is a quick way to make a quilt spectacular but it can be intimidating. The most important thing to remember is safety. The last thing you want is to hear the heart sickening sound of the hopping foot crunching on Plexiglas while using your APQS

Imagine how quickly you could knock out quilts if you could get more than one on the frame at a time! Well, it IS possible if you use a single backing fabric for both quilts.

Have you ever walked through a quilt show and felt the inspiration oozing out of the quilty masterpieces but have wondered how the quilter makes such incredible designs on the quilts?

Turning a quilt is really very simple and fast to do IF you know the secret ingredient – bendable pins that recover their shape after winding around the rollers.

Now that you know more about the possible methods you can choose, let’s review the basic steps for quilt loading...