Quilting Tutorials — FMQ

Walking Foot Quilting for Beginners We are back with more walking foot quilting ideas! This week, we have picked out 3 grid based quilting designs that are perfect for the beginner quilter. If you have never quilted a quilt, or are new to walking foot quilting, choose one of these designs to get your feet wet. After you’ve practiced them, you can add on and alter them to create many different options. First a couple tips to keep in mind for walking foot quilting: It’s a walking foot, don’t try to go too fast. If you do, the fabric won’t...

How to Quilt Orange Peel Blocks We are so excited to be able to share quilting ideas for each of the skill builder blocks all year long. One of the most common questions I get asked is “how should I quilt this?” My hope, is that by the end of the year, you’ll have a bunch of ideas and different ways to look at and approach an array of different quilts blocks that you can mix and match and use on different projects. This week, we are looking at orange peels. Whether appliqued or pieced, you can approach the quilting...

How to Quilt on a Domestic Machine – Moving Around the Quilt One of the biggest hurdles to overcome when quilting on your domestic machine, is to figure out how to get the quilt under the throat of your sewing machine. By the time you add the top, batting, and back, there can be quite a bit of bulk. Pair this with a small sewing machine throat and it can become very overwhelming very quickly. This week, I share how I break down the quilt to easily move around it while quilting and keeping the least amount of bulk under...

How to Quilt Half Square Triangles In our never-ending quest to answer the age old questions “how do I quilt it?” we are back with more ideas for block 4 from our free Online Quilting Bee. This month we focused on half square triangles. These nifty blocks can be put together in so many ways, which also leaves countless ways to quilt them. When deciding how to quilt the block, you can treat each triangle as it’s own element, or ignore the seam lines and focus on the shapes they create.   Quilting Plan 1 In this first idea, we...

How to Quilt a Star in a Star Block I’m really excited to share this weeks quilting ideas with you, because I’ll actually be quilting out one of the quilting plans! I have a quilt made from this months block all done and ready to go, so I’ll actually be stitching my design out. It’s always fun to create plans on paper, but so much more exciting to execute them and see how they look on an actual quilt. One easy way to get started with a star in a star block is to use the shapes that are there....