Quilting Tutorials — Free Motion Quilting

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....

We are now on block 2 for our year long Online Quilting Bee and this week we are sharing quilting ideas on how to finish your log cabin block. These ideas will translate to any log cabin blocks you make and are easily adaptable. If you want to sketch along, you can save the blank block photos below and print them out to sketch your own quilting designs.   As I post these videos, my goal is to help you see different ways you can approach blocks, there is no right or wrong way to quilt a quilt! Take what...

How to Quilt an Ohio Star Block As we spend the year learning new skills and creating new blocks, we are also going to provide some inspiration and ideas on how to quilt your blocks. I show a few different ways to approach a quilting plan to help you decide how to quilt your block. The motifs and ideas I show can also be adapted to other blocks using the same shapes.   Quilt Within the Block Pieces One way to approach a quilting plan is to work within the the piecing and filling in the shapes that are there....

How to Create a Quilting Plan It’s been a while since I shared a video on how I create a quilting plan and I’m excited to show this one to you. This quilt continues to be one of our best sellers, and I had so much fun quilting it. It wasn’t a super complicated plan, but sometimes, simple is best!   Thread Color for Quilting I want to talk about thread color a little bit. On this quilt, I just used white on the entire thing. I don’t mind the thread showing more, and when it’s all done, it doesn’t...