Kathleen is this week’s lucky winner. She will receive a Free Hugs coin purse—because who doesn’t love free hugs?! Congrats to Kathleen!
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I’ll be back next Wednesday with another Giveaway. Happy stitching!
I had the opportunity visit with Jean Impey at the Utah State Quilt Fest. I’m not sure how this came up, but she told me something that she learned from Libby Lehman back in the day. It relates to an article written by Bob Purcell at Superior Threads that you can find here: https://storage.googleapis.com/vw-superiorthreads/docs/tug-of-war-diagram.pdf
Imagine a machine loaded with pink thread on top and blue thread on bottom having a tug-o-war match. The number of people on the pink ‘team’ is represented by the number on the tension dial.
When the tension is correct, all is well. But what if the pink thread is being pulled too much to the back of the stitch? You need more people on the pink team to pull that thread up. You can add them by moving your top tension to a higher number.
If you see blue thread pulling to the top of the stitch, it means that the pink team is pulling too hard… it has too many team members. Turn the tension to a lower number.
I don’t know about you, but I struggle to remember which way to turn the tension dial. This helps a whole lot. Thank you Libby, and Jean, for sharing the perfect way to remember!
Image by Anna Samoylova, #535880, Unsplash
Barbara Whipple made this quilt from our book, the Best-Ever Applique Sampler. She spent nearly two years making it. It is hand appliqued and hand quilted an she said that she thoroughly enjoyed the process. I love the bright pops of color, especially the red!
Barbara entered her quilt in her guild’s annual quilt show recently and won second place against some very stiff competition. Way to go, Barbara!
This week’s lucky winner is Judy Renfrow! She will receive a set of white General’s Charcoal Pencils. I use these to mark medium to dark fabrics more than any other pencil. Try them, I think you will love them!
I’ll be back next Wednesday with another Giveaway. Happy stitching!
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I just found out that Barbara Brackman chose me to be her Quilter of the Month! I am so very honored! And I’m hearing Sally Field’s Oscar acceptance speech in my head 🙂 (video below for those who are too young to remember).
This is a screenshot of the beginning of Barbara’s post.
Click here to find Barbara’s post.
Barbara Brackman is someone I admire a great deal and her opinion really does matter to me. I am going to be wearing a great big grin over this for quite a long time! Thank you, Barbara!
Judi B. is this week’s lucky winner. She will receive a glue stick by In The Patch. This is the perfect glue stick for sticking wool applique in place for stitching. I like it better than other glue sticks with wool.
I’ll be back next Wednesday with another Giveaway. Happy stitching!
You can always find this and more at pieceocake.com!
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