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Happy Feature Friday, quilting friends! We're back in the sewing studio with the little mermaid quilt from last week. In Feature Friday 2026 Episode 40, Aubrey nests the next row of seashells, anchors the sides with channel locks, and then uses the cropping feature to quilt all the way around the embroidered mermaid block without stitching a single seashell over her. Where We Left Off Last week we laid out the Seashells design using the Edit features and stitched the first ro

Happy Feature Friday, quilting friends! There's a brand-new little quilt on the frame in the sewing studio this week. In Feature Friday 2026 Episode 39, Aubrey walks through setting up an edge-to-edge design from start to finish, using the Edit features (Repeat, Scale, proportion lock, and Move) to get a seashell pattern sitting exactly where she wants it. Meet the Mermaid Quilt This little top didn't come from a pattern at all. Aubrey pieced it from odds and ends and fat qua

Happy Feature Friday, quilting friends! We're back in the sewing studio picking up right where we left off last week on April Showers. In this episode, it's time to take those first two rows of Dripping raindrops and carry them down the quilt using the nesting feature — plus a few habits that keep the quilt straight and the stitching clean along the way. Where We Left Off Last week we imported the Dripping pattern and laid it out, stitching two rows of raindrops inside a sing

Happy Feature Friday, quilting friends! There's a brand-new quilt on the frame in the sewing studio this week, and this episode is all about setup — including importing a newly purchased pattern from a USB stick. If you've ever bought a digital design and wondered how to get it from your computer onto your robotic system, this one's for you. Meet April Showers This week's quilt top is one giant rain cloud: the April Showers pattern, one of the postcard patterns from Villa Ros

Hand-guiding taking a toll, or a basic stitch regulator not cutting it anymore? Here's how to tell you're ready for automation — and why most owners retrofit their current frame instead of buying a new machine.

Happy Feature Friday, quilting friends! Every so often we step away from the frame and into the "show and tell" chair for a quilt review — and Feature Friday 2026 Episode 36 is exactly that. It's been a few months since the last one, so Aubrey pulled out everything finished since then to share how it all turned out in the end. A Trio of Postcard Patterns Three of the quilts came from Villa Rosa Designs' postcard pattern line, and each got its own quilting personality. Paralle

Happy Feature Friday, quilting friends! This week's project in the sewing studio moves us off of full-size quilts and wall hangings and onto something a little different: a bag. In Feature Friday 2026 Episode 35, we're quilting the patchwork duffel by Knot and Thread Designs — piece by piece, using a bubble border design. What's on the Frame This Week? If last week's bonus pinwheel wall hanging felt like a quick side project, this one is the opposite: a multi-part bag build t

Happy Feature Friday, quilting friends! This week's project in the sewing studio is a great reminder that no scrap of fabric has to go to waste. In Feature Friday 2026 Episode 34, we're turning leftover triangles into a brand-new pinwheel wall hanging — and quilting the whole thing edge-to-edge with a swirly, circular design called Curls. What Is a "Bonus Project," Anyway? If you've been following along with us, you may recognize this fabric. It's leftover from a previous qui

Happy Feature Friday, everyone! This week Aubrey is back in her sewing studio finishing up the quilt she started showing us last week — and she's down to the very last block. Rather than just stitching it out the same way she did the others, she's using this last block to teach us something valuable: how to get that same clean, centered look with margins without relying on the auto-scale feature. If you've been following along, you already know the look we're going for — a de

Custom quilting gives you the freedom to make every section of a quilt unique—but keeping your designs organized and positioned exactly where you want them can sometimes be the challenging part. In Feature Friday 2026 Episode 32, Aubrey walks through several Butler tools that can make custom quilting easier, including pattern tags, margin adjustments, and custom quilting techniques. These may seem like small features, but they can make a big difference when you're working wit