Free Motion Quilting for Beginners – More Anything E2E Inspiration
Last week we got inspiration from fabric and created a design for stitching an Anything E2E. I hope it got you thinking about other designs and other places to draw inspiration. Look around All you need to do is take a look around your environment. There are quilting motifs everywhere! I love this bird […]
Read MoreFree Motion Quilting for Beginners – Pro Tips for Anything E2E
As promised, I have some Pro Tips for you, so that you can get the most out of Anything E2E quilting. This technique allows you to customize a design that is unique to each quilt. It’s edge-to-edge, so it is fast and easy to stitch. Just choose a motif that compliments your quilt and connect […]
Read MoreFree Motion for Beginners – Holiday Fun
I think I have recovered from teaching and working at the International Quilt Festival in Houston. So now we can throw ourselves into full holiday preparedness mode. Are you ready for this? Now is the time for finishing up those gift quilts and making holiday decorations and last minute quilty gifts. Put your newly gained […]
Read MoreFree Motion Quilting For Beginners – Backtrack Spiral
Last week we got started with the spiral, hook or swirl shape. This week we will talk about another kind of spiral. I call it the backtrack spiral. Instead of spiraling in, and then splitting the path you created to spiral out, you will backtrack spiral back out. Or in other words, you will stitch […]
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Free Motion Quilting for Beginners – Spirals
Moving on in our series on free motion quilting this week to our next shape, spirals (or hooks). We can really have some fun with this shape. It works for so many quilts. Like a meander, depending on the scale you choose, it can create a fabulous all over edge-to-edge quilting design or a fantastic […]
Read MoreFree motion quilting for beginners – Start from the beginning
We have come a long way from the beginning of this series about free motion quilting. I sure hope you have learned a thing or two along the way. Are you keeping up with your everyday quilting play? I hope that it becomes a life-long habit. Previous Posts I’ve heard from several folks who have […]
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Free Motion Quilting for Beginners – Getting Loopy
Back for more free-motion quilting this week! It’s time to try our hand at loops. I think that loopy designs are the most forgiving and the easiest to quilt. Often times with other shapes we have to try really hard to make the shapes uniform in size and proportion in order to make the quilting […]
Read MoreFree Motion Quilting for Beginners – Curvy Designs
Now that you are very comfortable stitching curves, you’re ready to learn some curvy designs. We will put those curves to good use quilting designs you’ll use over and over. Block Designs Let’s start with some simple block designs. Here’s the block we will quilt: Continuous Curve And here’s the design: Notice that it is […]
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Free Motion Quilting for Beginners – Muscle
I hope you had some fun trying out those straight line designs from last week. They will become some of your favorite go-to’s when you’re deciding how to quilt lots of tops. As you practice you are developing muscle. No, not that kind of muscle! Muscle memory. Is muscle memory a thing? You bet it […]
Read MoreFree Motion Quilting for Beginners – Putting it Together – Straight
So, you’ve been practicing quilting those five basic shapes in all different orientations. Now it’s time to start putting it together into free motion designs, basic ones that are fun to use on quilts. We will start with straight lines. Putting it together – Straight lines Modern quilters love straight line quilting. So do traditional […]
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