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Greetings fellow quilters and Welcome to Part II of our 2016 Free Motion Quilt Along.  If you're just joining us be sure to checkout these prior blog posts: Introduction => click here Sponsors => click here Supplies => click here Part I Pieced Borders => click here Many thanks to our fantastic sponsors including: Aurifil Quilter's Dream Batting World of Susybee Creekside Fabrics, Quilts and Yarns Sew It Is Quilt Shop Quilty Pleasures Quilt Shop They've provided some awesome products for Giveaways -- to learn more  click here . This week we're preparing the quilt layers and pin basting. Why Baste?   Proper basting technique is essential to avoid tucks, folds, or puckers in your fabrics. It also helps to ensure your flimsy (quilt top) stays somewhat square, and will fit within the batting and backing layers without shifting. If you do a good job of basting, you can avoid puckers and folds on the back.  If you're a bit sloppy or go without basting - you tak...

Hello fellow quilters and welcome to the first Redbird Quilt Co. Free Motion Quilt Along! I'm so excited that you're joining in the fun -- thanks for your patience and honest feedback while I work my way through this new adventure!  If you missed the Introductory Post for the Free Motion Quilt Along -- click here to review it. It's never too late to join If you missed the Supplies Post -- click here . To learn more about our awesome sponsors ( Aurifil , Quilter's Dream Batting , World of Susybee , Creekside Fabrics, Quilts and Yarns , Sew It Is Quilt Shop & Quilty Pleasures Quilt Shop ) and the fantastic products they've provided for the Quilt Along Giveaways  click here . FMQAL Part I:  Pieced Borders We're going to run right though getting the simple borders on this unit so we can move along to basting and quilting next week -- So let's do this! For Part I of the Free Motion Quilt Along (FMQAL) we're going to add the pieced borders to the whimsi...

Welcome! I'm so looking forward to starting up the Redbird Quilt Co. 2016 Free Motion Quilt Along using Susybee's adorable Lewe's Balloons Growth Chart. Are you joining us ? Click here for the details. Today I'd like to share our Sponsor contributions for the Free Motion Quilt Along (QAL) -- but before I do that, I'll share a little history of my Susybee growth chart quilting. My Growth Charts - Image courtesy World of Susybee Buzzz Susy's characters are adorable, the artwork is amazing and the fabric is oh! so perfect to learn and practice Free Motion Quilting on a home machine. My journey with Susybee began in August of 2012 when I quilted my first Lewe Growth Chart. I was VERY new to Free Motion Quilting but anxious to learn and improve my skill. As you can see, back in 2012, I took a pretty safe route and quilted minimal echo stitches around Lewe and his friends, but I did play with some loops in the borders! It was very basic quilting -- but important to ...