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Quilting Around the Mermaid: Nesting, Channel-Lock Basting, and Cropping Out an Embroidered Block
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
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Pattern Techniques
Tips and tutorials for working with quilting patterns and pantographs on your automated system.
Centering a Design and Adding Margins Without Auto-scale
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
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Aug 174 min read
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