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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. Paralleled (blocks...

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 that takes several...