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I have been quilting for more than a quarter of a century. (Sounds much longer than 25 years.) That's me in my studio in 2006.
Quilt tutor, patchwork author, columnist for Down Under Quilts magazine, and website designer, I now own and operate Australia's first online quilt design school, Jan T's Patchwork School.
Imagine that — I own a school!
I specialise in fast piecing, and invented a system...
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What can you do with a 'walking' foot?
- A 'walking' foot for your sewing machine is essential if you are a quiltmaker. It is used for several purposes: attaching bindings straight line quilting curves...
- Updated 208 days ago | walking foot quilting › jan t urquhart baillie
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Visual diary? What's that?
- These are all descriptions of workbooks kept by practitioners in which they record ideas, designs, thoughts, inspirations, indeed anything that will help th...
- Updated 151 days ago | visual notes › keeping a studio journal
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Electric Quilt Tutorials
- She's an expert in the software Electric Quilt tutorials for you to download and enjoy. Excerpts from Jan T's Computer Quilts column in Down Under quilts...
- Updated 553 days ago | Electric Quilt Tutorials › electric quilt
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Make your first patchwork block
- How to make a Four Patch quilt block with Jan T. Step by step, I'll take you through the easy process for making a simple patchwork block: Four Patch. This...
- Updated 158 days ago | beginner patchwork › basic patchwork
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What is stipple quilting?
- Let Jan T show you her best tips for getting great results when free machine quilting. It's not hard at all. After you have done all the blocks, assembled...
- Updated 140 days ago | stipple-quilting-with-jan-t › garnet stitch
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Purple vegetable festival
- Their benefits are great. I have found twenty-one purple vegetables to share with you. This lens was a quest challenge lens, and I had great fun finding vegetables...
- Updated 200 days ago | purple vegetables › festival of vegetables
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Mystery quilts? What fun!
- Have you heard of mystery quilts? They are popular in Australia and online. The idea is that patchworkers get to make units for a quilt, over a period R...
- Updated 184 days ago | patchwork › mystery patchwork
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Beginner's guide: embellishing crazy patchwork
- When you make a crazy patchwork block, you start with a foundation shape and cover it — either by machine or by hand — with many patches of fabric...
- Updated 178 days ago | crazy patchwork › crazy quilting
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Beginner's guide: Preparing to machine quilt
- Many people are afraid to machine quilt their quilts on their home sewing machine, because they think it's too difficult. Not so! Prepare your work space p...
- Updated 188 days ago | Preparing to Machine Quilt › machine quilting
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Beginner's guide: your first crazy-patch block
- I love all the wonderful bright fabrics, all the different shapes, and best of all the embellishment on crazy quilts. My very first attempt at patchwork was...
- Updated 205 days ago | crazypatch › crazy patchwork
- Best Patchwork and Quilting Tips from Jan T
- I know lots about patchwork and quilting that I'd love to share with you. Do you want to make better quilts? Have you got some patchwork/quilting tasks th...
- Updated 178 days ago | patchwork quilting tips › lensography
- Best patchwork tools, ever!
- Let me tell you about my favourite tools for patchwork quiltmaking. Every cook has a favourite knife, every photographer a favourite camera, quilters are n...
- Updated 970 days ago | best ever patchwork tools › essential quilting tools
- Patchwork and Quilting by Jan T Urquhart Baillie
- Quiltmaking is not new, it's been around for centuries. Born of necessity, patchwork was about being frugal, while quilting was about warmth or protection....
- Updated 196 days ago | Quiltmaking › history of patchwork quilting
- What Patchwork Quilters Need in a Sewing Machine
- Going to buy a new sewing machine to make patchwork quilts? Not sure which one is best? Everyone you ask will tell you a different brand, but I am going t...
- Updated 127 days ago | features needed for patchwork quilting sewing machine › best features for patchwork quilting machines
- Furoshiki: beautiful, reusable wrappings
- Anything you can wrap in paper, you can wrap in cloth. Japanese traditional cloth wrappings called furoshiki, are the greenest package wrapping you can get...
- Updated 201 days ago | green gifts › environmentally friendly
- JomSocial for Joomla 1.5
- Joomla! is a great content management system, and this component makes it even better. Online communities of like minded people are enjoying the benefits o...
- Updated 163 days ago | joomla › community
- Joomla! 1.7 Tutorials: Add submenu items to menu
- In order for Joomla! to display content, you need to write articles, and then link to these articles in the menu. You can make category lists, or link to a...
- Updated 163 days ago | joomla add menus › add content in joomla
- Beginning patchwork: perfect quarter inch seams
- Because patchwork made by machine is usually based on what is known as a 'template-free' method, perfect ¼ seams are imperative for accurate piecing....
- Updated 964 days ago | quarter inch seams › make a quilt block
- Why are Scrap Quilts so popular?
- Make do and mend was an adage that our forefathers (foremothers?) were fond of applying in their everyday lives. Considering that many people in the 1800s...
- Updated 155 days ago | scrap quilts › patchwork with scraps
- Using triangles in patchwork quilts
- The importance of straight grains when cutting triangles for patchwork quilts cannot be emphasised enough. In patchwork, there are two kinds of commonly used...
- Updated 514 days ago | Triangles in patchwork quilts › cutting triangles for quilts
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teriann
Oct 4, 2011 @ 12:32 pm | delete
- Hi JanTUB, I just read your lens top 10 reasons for giving thanks, the pics were lovely do you have a particular resource that you use and can share? Thx
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JanTUB
Oct 5, 2011 @ 1:57 am | delete
- Hi terian
I buy some from iStockphoto.com and others are from Word Document > Insert > clip art.
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- Dear JanTUB, Thank you so very much for taking the time to visit, participate, comment and Squid like my 'Things that Clean Dishes' lens. I really appreciate it. Have a great weekend. Sincerely, Rose
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- You are so welcome. You have a great weekend too.
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- Thanks so much for the "Like" on my lens Redo that Junk!!!
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Best patchwork tools, ever!
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Let me tell you about my favourite tools for patchwork quiltmaking. Every cook has a favourite knife, every photographer a favourite camera, quilters are n...
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Many things to many people, a very complex lady with lots of joie de vivre. Funny, bright, lively, can be serious. Find out all about her here. Do you know...
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How I found my Dad
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When I was little I went everywhere with my Daddy. He took me with him when he went out on his bike. He left me when I was not quite three, and I looked for...



