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I am starting to add quilting how-to tips and techniques to MyWebQuilter.com .  These tips will help you follow MyWebQuilter.com block instructions and the patterns generated by the MyWebQuilter.com free quilt design software. There are three so far....more are on the way:       Binding a Quilt - Includes how to make mitered corners on your quilt binding and how to finish the binding with a mitered seam.   Stitch and Flip - My favorite technique for adding triangles to corners of quilt blocks.  This technique can also be used to make easy flying geese blocks. Half Square Triangles - Make easy Half Square Triangles.  

I have never put quilts in a fair before but decided to put three in our UP State Fair .  This is a big event in our small town of Escanaba, MI.  My Bali Star from the Judy Niemeyer pattern won the best quilt award and a blue ribbon!   The other two quilts I entered are pictorial quilts. I made this Escanaba one for the Esky 150 celebration that was held this summer.  It is made from a picture of a mural painted at 12th & Ludington streets in Escanaba.  It was painted by Steve Johnson and commissioned by the Bonifas Art Center .     I also entered my Rapid River Ski Trail quilt.  This quilt was in the 2012 American Spirit Batting Calendar (December).  I took the picture on a sunny afternoon cross country skiing on the Rapid River Ski Trail . 

A new free quilt border calculator has been added to MyWebQuilter.com .  The quilt border calculator allows up to 5 borders and calculates quilt size, number of strips to cut and fabric requirements.  Calculations are provided for straight grain seams, mitered seams with straight corners and mitered seams with mitered corners. I hope you enjoy using this new quilt border calculator as well as the other quilt design software at MyWebQuilter.com . Amber  

The Quilt Backing and Binding Calculator at MyWebQuilter.com has been updated!  The two calculators are now on separate pages.  The Binding Calculator now lets you specify the binding width and gives directions for cutting straight grain or bias bindings.   Check it out!

Now that our quilt show is over and the weather is turning colder, I am finding time to add new features to www.MyWebQuilter.com .  I have had several people asking to be able to set the "extra fabric for quilting" on the quilt backing and binding calculator.  Previously the calculator included 3 extra inches on all sides for quilting.  Now you can change this value in the Additional Settings. Check out this new feature on the quilt backing calculator!  Happy Quilting Amber

I am the co-chairperson for my guild's quilt show that is coming up in 3 weeks!  I am starting to get very, crazy busy with things to do for the show! Quilts at the Bay will be Oct 14-15, 2011 at Bay College in Escanaba, MI .   The show will include: Handcrafted Quilts on Display Quilting Demonstrations    Raffle Baskets Vendors Viewers Choice Award Raffle Quilt  Quilt Challenge Live Music Featured Quilter In addition to the actual quilt show we are hanging quilts in the windows of businesses in downtown Escanaba and Gladstone.  Can't blog for long...  have to email the paper information about our featured quilter, deliver posters, and start organizing my own quilts for the show! Happy quilting, Amber

I just added the traditional quilt block Lady of the Lake was just added to MyWebQuilter.com . Click here for the free quilt block pattern. Click here for a free quilt pattern using Lady of the Lake. Happy Quilting Amber