I think you know the way to get really good at something. Practice EVERYDAY. It's what will develop that all-important muscle memory.
We're moving right along with our free motion quilt along and it's super fun to go through all the linked up blogs to search for questions to answer here on Thursdays.And I'm seeing loads of beautiful stitching! It's so wonderful to see your progress after just two weeks of working on stippling.We have a wide
Free Motion quilting block by block. Free tutorial on various free motion quilting motifs. In this post, you'll learn how to free motion quilt an allover square loops design and also a direction guide to free motion quilting half square triangles
This past week, I started and finished a fun new Wholecloth Quilt that yielded 36 fun, new free-motion quilting motifs. Not only am I thril...
When it comes to free motion quilting, there's a few main myths that people believe about starting free motion quilting. Here's the truth!
Learn how to use baking paper as an aid for your free-motion quilting. Tutorial includes instructions on how to quilt a stylised flower motif suitable for square blocks. Free downloadable template provided.
Make quilting easy and fast for a beginner quilter with these building blocks quilting stenciles from Leah Day.
Learn how to quilt-as-you-go and connected large quilted blocks together in a new quilting tutorial with Leah Day. This quilt-as-you-go method is excellent because you can quilt smaller blocks on your home machine, then connect them together to make a large quilt.
Happy Christmas Eve! I hope you’re kicking back and enjoying all the food, fun, and good times with family and...
Free motion quilting sampler block using quilt as you go technique. Post series include tutorials on how to free motion quilt and assembling quilt as you go
I hate to pick favs but this one is my Favorite of the Trio. Thread - Iris Mint Batting - Hobbs 80/20 Tools - A ton of templates w...
Keep your creative juices flowing with over 100 free quilt blocks rounded up in one place. Includes everything from basics, traditional and paper piecing.
Free Motion Quilting Tips
I think we can all agree that as quilters we have this deeply implanted love of creating and being creative, and that creativity doesn’t just stop at piecing a quilt top. Doing the actu…
Remember Poinsettia and Flame Flower? I really enjoyed both of those center filled designs and definitely plan to design more. As soon as I started thinking of shapes that work from the center-out, I thought of the most popular of all - a Spider Web! I guess I'm in another holiday mood because today's design
If you’ll remember back a few days ago we were all challenged a bit by the Greek Key design. Now,...
Free Motion Monday Quilting Adventure: Scroll Flower #1
I think we can all agree that as quilters we have this deeply implanted love of creating and being creative, and that creativity doesn’t just stop at piecing a quilt top. Doing the actu…
Free Motion Quilting for beginners. Tips to solve free motion quilting problems:uneven tension or stitches, backing fabric fold plus notions that will help.
Day Two of our Free Motion Quilting Series shows how to practice Waves.
This month we've pieced and quilted our 9th block for the Machine Quilting Block Party which means three rows of the Sunshine Surprise quilt can be connected together Quilt-As-You-Go style! I love see
I am sharing with you today how I free motion quilt block 4 – Crow’s Nest. So far, this is by far my favourite block! I made two version – with different fabric placement and they both look different
Interested in quilting feathers on your quilt but not sure how to include them? Check out these 15 ways to quilt feathers in different shapes.
The thing that helps me most in my free motion quilting journey is this: I don’t quilt with both hands on top of the quilt sandwich. I tried it in my first days of quilting and I hated it. I wanted to free motion quilt and I wanted to make it easy and fun so […]
Free Motion Monday Quilting Adventure: Scroll Flower #1
I've had the chance to review the book Free Motion Quilting for Beginners (and those who think they can't), by Molly Hanson. I love that title! I'm a big proponent of quilting your own quilts, as you know, and I've read a lot of books about free motion quilting. I like how everyone presents the information in their own personal way....there is always more to learn! This book presents all the practical information you need to get started. More importantly, it gives you the confidence to jump in and give free motion quilting a try. There are 15 projects in the book that encourage you to start small and increase your comfort level with free motion quilting before you tackle something larger, like a quilt. What I love most about this book is Molly's tone of encouragement throughout the text and the projects. She is great at guiding you though the entire process! I've done a lot of free motion quilting and I love how relaxing it can be. I also know how easy it can be to get in a rut. I challenged myself to get out of my box, so to speak and try some new-to-me, designs. I gave this squared off stippling pattern a try and it went pretty well! I had to slow down and think about where I was going from time to time, but it was fun! I could see doing this all over a whole quilt. I also quilted a few swatches of different designs and I turned them into a set of coasters. Binding them was a little fiddly, but totally worth it! (I can say that now that they are done. Ha!) These are great because I not only used scraps of fabric, but scraps of batting as well. Hurray! I'm happy to count these as scrap project #94/101. If you would like the chance to win an e-book copy of Free Motion Quilting for Beginners, please leave me a comment in this post. In your comment, I'd love to hear what your favorite go-to FMQ pattern is. Or, if you are new to FMQ, I'd like to hear what pattern you would like to master. I will pick winner in a few days!
In this video you will learn free motion quilting tips using circles and squares
My friend Laura has been trying free motion quilting! We are time zones apart, so unfortunately I can't hover over her shoulder with encour...
How to Free Motion Quilt, and how to set up for freemotionquilting
These free-motion quilting design tutorials include videos of me stitching them! Wibbly Wobbly Starbles (Stars + Marbles) Way...
Free motion quilting sampler block using quilt as you go technique. Post series include tutorials on how to free motion quilt and assembling quilt as you go
I tested 7 quilt as you go methods to find the perfect method with no hand-sewing! I tried versions with sashing and with no sashing.
Learn how to implement these six best force and motion activities to help your primary students have fun while learning this content in the classroom.
How to Free Motion Quilt Series. Basic motion and thread tensioning. With video
Embroider with you "normal" sewing machine - no need for an expensive, special embroidery machine ^-^
