A dealer's side-by-side of Brother's three most popular home embroidery machines: hoop size, stitches, designs, features, price, and exactly who should buy each one.
Every Sew Steady size compared, when to choose an extension table vs a cabinet insert or inset, how to measure, and exactly what information to have ready when you order.
Who makes Island Batik, how batik differs from regular quilting cotton, which batik precut to buy (strip packs vs 10" stacks), whether batiks bleed, and how to sew and wash them.
How many 2½" strips and jelly rolls you need for baby through king quilts, what one 40-strip roll makes, and how to cut strips into squares, bricks and binding.
Exactly how many 10" squares (layer cakes) you need for baby, throw, twin, full, queen and king quilts, plus what else you can cut from a 42-piece stack.
Which battings shrink, how much a quilt can draw in, how to decide whether to prewash, and the safe way to prewash batting without ruining it.
Batting weight and batting loft are not the same thing. What “oz.” measures, how loft changes the look of your quilting, and how to pick the right weight for bed, wall and show quilts.
How many quilts you get from a 30-yard roll, what each quilt costs, 96" vs 120" widths, which fiber to choose, and how to store and cut batting by the roll.
80/20 and 100% cotton are the two most-used quilt battings. Here is how they differ in drape, texture, warmth, shrinkage and longarm handling, and exactly which one to buy for each kind of quilt.
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