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Brave Beginner Quilt Course

Brave Beginner: Squaring Up Your First Quilt
Brave Beginner: Squaring Up Your First Quilt
Kelly finished quilting her very first quilt, and now it’s time to trim away the extra batting and backing. Mitzie shows how to use your blocks as a guide, nudge... Read more...
Brave Beginner: Quilting The Sidewalk Cracks Quilt
Brave Beginner: Quilting The Sidewalk Cracks Quilt
 It's time for the part that makes every beginner a little nervous: actually quilting it. In this episode, Mitzie breaks down straight line quilting with a walking foot, why one... Read more...
Baste Your Quilt In An Afternoon
Baste Your Quilt In An Afternoon
It's time for the step a lot of beginners dread: basting. In this session we walk through choosing the right batting, picking a backing fabric that fits your style, piecing... Read more...
Brave Beginner Quilt Course: Sewing the top
Brave Beginner Quilt Course: Sewing the top
Hey quilter bees, it's Mitzie here! We're back with another lesson from the Brave Beginner Quilt Course, Learn to Make Your First Quilt. If you caught the last video, Kelly... Read more...
How to Lay Out a Quilt Top for Beginners
How to Lay Out a Quilt Top for Beginners
You cut all your blocks. You sorted them. Now comes the part that feels the most like art: laying the quilt out. In this lesson of the Brave Beginner Quilt... Read more...
How to Cut Quilt Blocks from Strip Sets (And Get That Seam Centered Every Time)
How to Cut Quilt Blocks from Strip Sets (And Get That Seam Centered Every Time)
If you've been following along with the Brave Beginner Quilt Course, you've already done a lot of the hard work. You picked your fabrics, pressed them, cut your strips and... Read more...
How to Sew Quilt Strips Together and Press Seams for Beginners
How to Sew Quilt Strips Together and Press Seams for Beginners
This is the moment quilting stops being theoretical and starts being real.You have your fabrics. You have your strips. You have a sewing machine that is threaded and ready. In... Read more...
How to Pair Quilt Fabrics by Color Value (Brave Beginner Quilt Course)
How to Pair Quilt Fabrics by Color Value (Brave Beginner Quilt Course)
You cut your fabrics. You pressed them. You stacked them neatly on the table. And now you're staring at them wondering: okay, which ones go together?This is the moment that... Read more...
How to Cut Fabric for a Quilt: Reading the Pattern and Cutting Fat Quarters
How to Cut Fabric for a Quilt: Reading the Pattern and Cutting Fat Quarters
There is something about picking up that rotary cutter with your good fabric in front of you that makes every beginner pause. You've got the tools. You've got the pattern.... Read more...
How to Use a Rotary Cutter for Quilting: A Complete Beginner's Guide
How to Use a Rotary Cutter for Quilting: A Complete Beginner's Guide
If you ask me what the hardest part of quilting is, I will tell you the same thing every time: the rotary cutter. Not the sewing. Not the color choices.... Read more...
How to Choose Quilt Fabric Colors for Beginners
How to Choose Quilt Fabric Colors for Beginners
For the Brave Beginner Quilt CourseYou picked some fabrics. You kind of like them. But now you are standing there wondering if they actually go together or if you are... Read more...
Prepping Your Fabrics for the Brave Beginner Quilt Course
Prepping Your Fabrics for the Brave Beginner Quilt Course
Do You Need to Wash Fabric Before Quilting?This is one of the first questions almost every new quilter asks, and the internet will give you completely opposite answers depending on... Read more...
How to Press Quilt Fabric the Right Way for the Brave Beginner Quilt Course
How to Press Quilt Fabric the Right Way for the Brave Beginner Quilt Course
How to Press Quilt Fabric the Right Way (It Is Not the Same as Ironing)If you have been treating your iron like a tool you push across fabric, you are... Read more...
Your Sewing Machine, Explained: Everything a Beginner Needs to Know Before You Sew a Single Stitch
Your Sewing Machine, Explained: Everything a Beginner Needs to Know Before You Sew a Single Stitch
Maybe you pulled an old machine out of a closet. Maybe you just bought a basic one and it's still sitting in the box. Maybe you borrowed one from your... Read more...
How to Make Your First Quilt and Actually Love It: The Brave Beginner Quilt Course
How to Make Your First Quilt and Actually Love It: The Brave Beginner Quilt Course
So you want to make a quilt. Maybe you've been thinking about it for a while, or maybe someone in your life quilts, and you've always been a little curious.... Read more...
Quilting Tools for Beginners: Everything You Need to Make Your First Quilt (And Nothing You Don't)
Quilting Tools for Beginners: Everything You Need to Make Your First Quilt (And Nothing You Don't)
If you've ever looked up quilting tools and felt immediately overwhelmed by the list, you are not alone. There are rulers for every occasion, gadgets for every technique, and no... Read more...