Introducing the Quilted Joy Clubhouse – An Online Machine Quilting Guild

Here in Louisville, KY I’ve been very fortunate to find lots of folks who love machine quilting as much as me. For the last several years, we’ve gathered together once…

Mary's Dr. Seuss Quilt after renting a longarm quilting machine at Quilted Joy

Some people look at panels and think “This is cheating. It takes no skill at all to make a quilt with a panel. It is someone else’s art.” I think…

Continuous Curves or Line Dancing Quilting Design on a Big North Star Quilt

Some of the most common shapes in quilting are squares and triangles. If you want to free motion quilt on a longarm quilting machine or a regular sewing machine, you…

APQS has released a small batch of Demo longarm machines! Demo machines are current year models that have been used at shows or in classrooms. All of these machines come with the…

2 Day Machine Quilting Workshop with Linda Hrcka March 15-16, 2019 QuiltedJoy.com Louisville, KY

Update: We are thrilled by the response for Linda’s workshop! Linda has offered to teach another identical session of classes on March 13-14, 2019. Click here to register for Linda’s…

Awesome Ocean quilt, quilted at Quilted Joy, using the bubbles design board

Free motion quilting is faster, though not often easier than following a predetermined design on a pantograph or design board. Making your design shapes consistently the same size can be…

Fusible interfacings, Fusi-Bond Lite, Steam a Seam 2, and Misty Fuse Black

The Longarm Guild will be meeting next Wednesday, September 5 at 10:00am in the Quilted Joy showroom. Thanks in part to our recent obsessions with the Laura Heine fabric collage…

Let’s be honest, straight lines are so much easier to piece and so we see most quilts made with straight lines. But the circle is a beautiful shape and belongs…

Are you ready to take the next leap in your quilting journey? Join me at the Quilted Joy showroom on Saturday August 25, 2018 12:00pm-3:00pm, for a special seminar about…