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THE BASICS OF MACHINE QUILTING

Throughout my quilting career I have quilted on both a domestic (tabletop) andI’d like to take a moment to debunk the popular myth that a longarm machine is a magical tool that produces amazing quilting. A longarm quilting machine does make machine quilting more convenient and efficient. However, it is not necessary to use a longarm machine to achieve beautiful quilting. The majority of machine quilting patterns can be done on either a domestic or a longarm machine. The quality of the quilting is dependent on you and your ability to freehand draw the designs that you choose to quilt, not on the technology of the machine that you are using.

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