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Video tutorial: Free-motion writing with your sewing machine

March 18, 2012 by Denise Felton 3 Comments

I love the look of free-motion machine-stitched writing, but I haven’t been brave enough yet to try it. A new video demo by Dale Ann Potter shows us her technique using a conventional sewing machine. I can do this! And so can you. See the video.

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Comments

  1. Hiren Modi says

    March 19, 2012 at 4:59 am

    Thanks for sharing. One Repin from my side. 🙂

  2. Dale Anne Potter says

    March 19, 2012 at 9:56 am

    THANK YOU for the Link Up!!!

  3. Brenda says

    June 6, 2016 at 3:54 pm

    I am a amateur on e a long arm quilter and like to quilt in little messages… I was needing help in crossing t’s. Thanks. . . hope I can do this.

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