Quilting Tutorials — Free Motion Quilting

In a quest to actually finish all our quilts (it’s hard to snuggle under a quilt top), we are sharing a new free motion quilting motif with you each month. These are simple motifs that can easily be tackled by a beginner. Grab a practice quilt sandwich and some extra thread and try it out. You may just find a new favorite quilting motif! This month, we are learning how to quilt easy vines.   Where To Use a Vine Quilting Motif Like feathers, this quilting motif is very versatile. You can use it as an all over design and...

How to Easily Baste Your Quilt Most of us have steps of the quilting project that we really don’t enjoy. Basting is that step for me. I love having it done so I can move on to quilting, but the thought of crawling around on the floor and trying to keep the quilt flat and wrinkle free is very daunting. Luckily, I don’t have to worry about that anymore! With the simple addition of 3 cheap pool noodles, I’m now able to baste our quilts quickly and easily on the dining room table, no knee or back pain required.  ...

Block 11 is a mini lone star quilt block and I have lots of fun ideas and ways to approach quilting it. Don’t forget to scroll down to print out your blank block copy so you can doodle along and come up with your own ideas!   Quilt Block Design 1 For this design, I quilted the yellow and dark green areas as different elements, but then combined the light green and gray into one continuous element around the block. By connecting those areas, it makes it appear as if the yellow and dark green diamonds are sitting on top...

How to Free Motion Quilt Filled Waves A quilt isn’t finished till it’s quilted! To help aid in this, we are putting together a collection of free motion quilting motifs you can complete on your domestic sewing machine that will help you complete all your tops. We will go over quilting direction, easier to more complex designs, and ruler quilting! Each month of the year we will feature a different quilting motif for you to practice and add to your skill set so that when you are ready to finish a quilt, you’ll have lots of ideas and be confident...

Now that we are done with all 12 blocks in this years free skill building quilt a long, we are ready to start quilting! Before we get started, I have one more set of ideas to share. When you are done, go grab all your other quilting plans and finish up your top! Don’t forget to post photos of your finished project and tag us @onwilliamsstreet so we don’t miss any.   Block Quilting Plan 1 This plan utilizes lots of straight lines to accentuate the shapes of the triangles. I started out by echoing each of the center triangles...