Free Online Quilting Course for Beginners
A free, no-signup quilting course in eight lessons, from your first quarter-inch seam to a finished, bound 36-by-48-inch lap quilt, and the tools it needs.
How to thread the machine. Why the thread keeps nesting underneath. Which needle for which fabric. What a serger actually does. Short answers first, no assumed vocabulary, and no pretending we tested something we researched.
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A free, no-signup quilting course in eight lessons, from your first quarter-inch seam to a finished, bound 36-by-48-inch lap quilt, and the tools it needs.
A serger trims, sews and overlocks in one pass — but it cannot do zippers, buttonholes or topstitching. Why it is a second machine, not a first.
What a quilt sandwich is, why your regular machine is enough, the rotary cutting trio, and how to piece, baste, quilt and bind a first baby quilt.