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Gosh! It’s been a month since I’ve written a post \u2014 time really does fly sometimes. I returned home last night from a wonderful trip to the Houston Quilt Festival, which was celebrating its 40th anniversary. I know there are photos all over the web of the glorious quilts; I have to admit that I didn’t take any myself. I decided this year simply to enjoy the quilts, rather than trying to get good photos.<\/p>\n

While I was there, I took a half-day class from Jenny Lyon<\/a>, whose blog I’ve been enjoying. The class was very good, and Jenny herself is really upbeat and encouraging. The class was well worth attending. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

My quilting buddy Phyl<\/a> and I roomed together, ogled the quilts, and drooled in the vendors’ booths. What did I buy, you ask? The first thing was Philippa Naylor’s new book, Appliqu\u00e9 Mastery<\/a>. Philippa is a phenomenal teacher, but she wasn’t offering anything I hadn’t already taken during the time I was there. The book, though, will serve to remind me of things I’d had in her appliqu\u00e9 class, as well as things I hadn’t known.<\/p>\n

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After that, a few of the things I was specifically looking for weren’t available or had sold out by the time I found where they’d been. However, I did “discover” a new-to-me booth, l’Atelier d’Isabelle,<\/a> where I bought a wool felt kit to make an adorable flower pin cushion. Isn’t it cute? I also found some buttons that I may be able to use on a sweater I’m making. In other places I found some threads I needed, refill chalks for my Bohin pencils, and a couple of rulers designed for use in free-motion work on domestic machines. Fun!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Yesterday, though, I ran across something I’d somehow missed before: a British stand<\/a> selling a foot specifically made for ruler work on domestic machines, including the Bernina! Eureka! This will be so <\/i>much easier than the #9 foot I modified with O-rings! The foot came as a “kit” with a slider mat and a ruler, but I already had the slider mat. The very nice vendor added another ruler to the kit instead, and took off a bit from the price. There’s a YouTube channel<\/a> showing how some of the rulers work, too.<\/p>\n

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Above, you can see the foot, with its #75 shank licensed from Bernina, and the two rulers. The straight line one is included in the kit, and then I chose the curved one for making circles and clamshells. The foot actually fits right into those channels, and then you scoot the ruler along or swivel it around to continue on. On the left you can see how the foot looks on the machine.<\/p>\n

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I’ve just finished a tiny amount of “play” with the foot and a “normal” free-motion ruler, as well as with the special rulers that came with the foot, and I think I’m in love. LOL! The lines to the right are made with a normal FM ruler, and the ones to the left are done with the ruler included in the kit.<\/p>\n

Now to catch up on the laundry! \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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