Learn how to quilt Bubble Fern and watch a video on quilting this design both on a stationary home sewing machine and on a longarm on a frame.

Free Motion Quilting Adventures in Review: My Best post of the year

Free motion quilting tips- tips that make your free motion quilting easier and fun.

Eight Free Motion quilting Tips for Confident Beginners- for when you're sick of making place mats and hot pads!

The sound of crashing waves, the salty air, the gentle wind blowing the ruffles of our beach umbrella… It is one of my fondest memories of spending time with my loved ones at the beach. The m…

Learn how to quilt the Hooked Feather Filler Design in this longarm quilting video tutorial from Angela Huffman and APQS longarm machines.

Happy Christmas Eve! I hope you’re kicking back and enjoying all the food, fun, and good times with family and...

Fear of not liking your quilting plan often contributes to large WIP piles. Continue reading for 5 ways to not over-do FMQ on your next quilt

Two of Hearts PAPER longarm quilting pantograph design by Melonie Caldwell More Details Two of Hearts pantograph pattern by Melonie Caldwell PAPER: A single row is 5.5" wide - printed with two row - 144 inches long Click here for more machine quilting pantographs from Melonie Caldwell Click here to go to our main Panto Directory Page. Click here to see more items of interest to machine quilters. Pantographs are continuous line quilting pattern designs on a paper roll designed for use on longarm quilting machines. The roll is approx. 11 to 12 feet long. A quilting pantograph pattern is typically used by longarm machine quilters or machine quilters using a frame.

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!

These are samples of free motion quilt patterns that can be used in an all over design over the entire surface of a quilt. TAlso the patterns can be combined and used on individual blocks within a quilt. These samples also illustrate the effect of various fabric and thread color combinations

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…

Here is our beginner guide to Free Motion Quilting with a Ruler (also called templates). Free Motion Quilting templates help you to create designs like Baptist Fans, Arcs, Clamshells, Waves and more. This getting started guide will help you install your ruler foot, setup your machine and get started!

Fear of not liking your quilting plan often contributes to large WIP piles. Continue reading for 5 ways to not over-do FMQ on your next quilt

I sure hope you have learned a thing or two along the way with this series. If you just joined us, start from the beginning.

Free Motion Quilting for beginners. Tips to solve free motion quilting problems:uneven tension or stitches, backing fabric fold plus notions that will help.

How to Free Motion Quilt Series. Basic motion and thread tensioning. With video

Do you want to do quilting differently this time? Try and learn how to do FMQ in this post on the free motion quilting tutorial.

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…

Welcome back to Week 24 of #freemotionfriday! Our video library is growing with these awesome free motion quilting videos, so if you've missed any of them be sure to search for them here. Learning each

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!

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.

I would define meandering as covering space randomly without a precise pattern. For most quilters, it means this. Meandering stitches up q...

free motion quilt-along link party McTavishing week 4

In an unprecedented act of blogging fanciness I decided to make a video documenting how I create the woodgrain texture (so thoroughly p...

You have to try this. It is so fun! I know it looks complicated. It isn't. It's basically an adaptation of all over spirals (bel...

How to Free Motion Quilt, and how to set up for freemotionquilting

Almost every month I travel and teach free-motion quilting to quilters at guilds and quilt shops. I truly love it, and I hope that everyone who takes a class from me enjoys it as well! But, inevitably, there comes a time in every class where I have to break the bad news . . . to get better at machine quilting, you have to practice. I know, I know. It’s not exactly what you (or anyone for that matter) wants to hear. I so wish that I had that one tip, trick, or even funny joke that would instantly make you a great machine quilter . . . But, unfortunately, I don't. But before you leave in frustration . . . there is hope! While you do have to practice, I have the absolute best way to practice machine quilting. It’s a technique from my soon to be released book, Free-Motion Meandering: A Beginner’s Guide to Machine Quilting. I developed this practice technique from teaching more machine quilting classes than I can count. It makes learning machine quilting manageable and helps prepare you for working on an actual quilt. The bottom line is that if you practice productively, you will get better at machine quilting faster. On a side note, this technique works whether you are drawing the quilting design or actually quilting on a quilt sandwich. How to Practice Machine Quilting 1. Define a practice area. Define a practice area by quilting (or drawing) a square. It doesn’t have to be any particular size or even a square. You just need clear boundaries to fill in with quilting. It could be a whole piece of paper or an area that you have marked on a quilt or even an actual quilt block. (You get bonus points for practicing on an actual quilt.) 2. Commit to Filling in the Whole Area Pick out a quilting design and commit to filling in the whole area without stopping or ripping out quilting (or erasing any drawn lines). But that’s not all . . . here comes the hardest part of all . . . you can’t judge your quilting while you’re doing it. (I told you it would be difficult!) That also means you can't say negative things to yourself. (It's amazing that we will say things to ourselves that we wouldn't allow any one else to say!!) 3. Ready . . . Set . . . Quilt! This is where the fun happens! Start quilting (or drawing) a design in the area, trying to fill it in as much as possible. The design you use doesn’t matter. It could be something that you have been wanting to master or perhaps a design you plan on using on your next quilt. If you can’t decide, you could always quilt “Angela Is Awesome” over and over again. Just kidding! 4. Assess Your Quilting Once finished, look over your sample and decide on one thing you want to improve during your next practice session. It could be anything, including, but not limited to: • Quilting smoother lines • Keeping the stitch length consistent • Avoiding getting stuck • Not cursing as much while quilting (Hey, it doesn’t matter what your goal is!) If you are a perfectionist, it may be difficult limiting yourself to only one thing. But it’s very, very important to only focus on one aspect of your quilting to improve. Setting just one goal gives you the ability to see improvement. When it comes to machine quilting, achieving small goals can help prevent you from giving up! 5. Repeat Now that you have a goal in mind, repeat the steps and practice until you are ready to start working on a different goal. It isn’t really about how long you practice, it’s about consistency. Try doing quilting five minutes a day . . . or twenty minutes a week . . . whatever you think is manageable for you! What if you make a quilting “mistake”? Here's the kicker, what happens if you make a mistake. Well, I would argue that it's not "if" you make a mistake, it's what you do "when" you make a mistake! Filling in a defined area teaches so much more than just learning a particular quilting design. You’ll learn how to maneuver around an area as well as how to deal with corners. But most importantly, it will help you see what the overall quilting texture will look like. When your face is just a couple of inches away from the quilt, it can be so easy to spot all your mistakes. But when the whole area is filled, you'll see that the overall texture can hide any imperfections. For instance, if I make a mistake (or, as I prefer to call it, “an unintentional customization”) it’s going to be very obvious . . . such as this "oops" I quilted on this sample. But after filling in the whole area, you'll notice that it starts to blend in with rest of the quilting. The moral of this story is, if you make a mistake . . . just keep quilting until you can’t see it anymore. (Don’t you wish that was the case with other things in life?!?) I already mentioned that this is in my newest book, Free-Motion Meandering, but I have to tell you that I couldn’t be more proud of it! This book is the product of all the classes I have taught. It not only shows you several versatile meandering designs including swirls, leaves, and even improv quilting, it also includes frequently asked questions, as well as how to troubleshoot common mistakes. The book will be released in the next week or two, but you can preorder a signed copy now. Thanks so much for your support! Happy quilting! Angela Walters Follow my blog with Bloglovin

Signed copies by Natalia Bonner Take the straight-line challenge!  Are feathers and swirls your fallback? Learn how satisfying it is to quilt with only straight lines! Quilting expert Natalia Bonner shares sixty new straight-line motifs to fill in triangles, square blocks, and borders, plus allover designs. Teach your walking foot some new tricks or practice controlled free-motion quilting with rulers. Domestic or longarm machine… the choice is yours! Each pattern comes with step-by-step photos, so quilters of all levels can conquer their fears of straight-line quilting, and learn to rock it! • Natalia Bonner fans, unite! Learn forty-eight straight-line quilting ideas and thirteen fun variations• Find freedom in the constraints of straight-line quilting and shine a spotlight on every intriguing angle• Use a longarm or home sewing machine to create geometric perfection, step-by-step