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Valentine’s Heart Quilt Square tutorial
Posted by Claire on Feb 12 2011
I recently taught “Introduction to Machine Quilting” at Mohawk College. It was a fun bunch of women and we had a great time. The class was designed to give novice quilters a basic handle on terminology, supplies, tools and techniques and give them the confidence to tackle quilting projects on their own. I think everyone […]
Tutorial: Designing Smocking Plates in Illustrator Pt 1
Posted by Claire on Feb 11 2011
This tutorial is designed to allow smockers to create their own smocking graphs in Adobe Illustrator. It’s what I use to create the free vintage plates I offer here on my blog, like the one here and which I use to design many of my magazine projects, too. Pretty, no? Why Illustrator? Well, there is […]