{"id":8333,"date":"2021-04-22T22:37:15","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T05:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.road2ca.com\/blog\/?p=8333"},"modified":"2021-04-22T22:37:21","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T05:37:21","slug":"melissa-marginet-loves-her-walking-foot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/22\/melissa-marginet-loves-her-walking-foot\/","title":{"rendered":"Melissa Marginet Loves Her Walking Foot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Melissa Marginet will be teaching 2 classes at Road@Home May<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Friday, F105 \u2013 Wonky Wedges<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And on Sunday, SU113 \u2013 Delectable Mug Rugs<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Meet Melissa Marginet<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Melissa Marginet <\/a>is a Janome Canada Artisan. She has sewn and done many other crafts since she was a young girl growing up next door to her grandmother. In 2001, she saw an ad for a quilting class through the local recreation commission. Melissa had some fabric that she wanted to get rid of, so she signed up for the class. Melissa says that she was instantly hooked and \u201cneedless to say I have way more fabric now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Melissa shared that she is filled with \u201cso many ideas and not enough time to do them all.\u201d Consequently, her quilting area is usually quite cluttered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Before COVID-19, Melissa retired from her office job and had plans to travel and teach quilting. When all of that was \u201cthrown out the window,\u201d she began investigating the \u201conline route.\u201d The first thing she did was run some mystery quilt-a-longs on Facebook which \u201clifted the spirits of many people who were feeling locked up.\u201d She prepared some of her already developed classes for an online teaching format by buying new equipment and learning how to use it. That enabled her to start booking lectures and classes as well as be prepared for teaching during Road@Home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Walking Foot Expert<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Through the years, Melissa Marginet has tried all methods of quilting. She tried free motion, made a lot of \u201cquilt as you go\u201d quilts to be able to manage the quilting herself, and bought a track machine. Melissa was in the habit of finishing all her quilts herself. \u201cI didn\u2019t know you could ask someone to do it for you.\u201d  It wasn\u2019t until she discovered walking foot quilting<\/strong> that she knew she had found her niche. A walking foot \u201cchanged my quilting life.\u201d Melissa says that today, \u201cI could not live without my open toe walking foot.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Melissa has authored two books on how to use a walking foot for quilting: Walking Foot Quilting Designs <\/em>and Edge-to-Edge Walking Foot Quilting Designs.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Melissa Marginet was one of the presenters at Roundabout 2.0<\/a> during the first Road@Home<\/a> held last January. She shared some of her popular tips in her segment, \u201cWalking Edge to Edge.\u201d When using a walking foot for quilting, Melissa stressed that preparing your quilt well before you quilt is key. Baste the quilt and make sure there is plenty of room so that your quilt does not fall off your sewing table. While free motion quilting starts in the middle, quilting with a walking foot goes edge to edge. The density of your quilting is decided as you go along.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Teaching During Road@Home May<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Melissa Marginet has been teaching locally since 2006 and began teaching nationally in Canada in 2016 when she was accepted to teach for Quilt Canada<\/a>. She is looking forward to being a part of the Road at Home May family. She relates that \u201cit\u2019s an opportunity I may never have in person because of US laws.\u201d She hopes her students will gain the knowledge and confidence to quilt their own projects on their home sewing machines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To learn more about Melissa Marginet, please visit her website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Melissa Marginet will be teaching 2 classes at Road@Home May On Friday, F105 \u2013 Wonky Wedges And on Sunday, SU113 \u2013 Delectable Mug Rugs Meet Melissa Marginet Melissa Marginet is a Janome Canada Artisan. She has sewn and done many other crafts since she was a young girl growing up next door to her grandmother. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8341,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8333\/revisions\/8341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}