Quilting Tutorials — Free Motion Quilting

How to Quilt a Log Cabin Block

Kimberlee Tanner

Tags FMQ, Free Motion Quilting, Inspiration

How to Quilt a Log Cabin Block

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

Kimberlee Tanner

Tags FMQ, Free Motion Quilting, Inspiration, Quilting

How to Quilt an Ohio Star Block

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....


Creating a Quilting Plan – Windswept Quilt

Kimberlee Tanner

Tags FMQ, Free Motion Quilting, Inspiration, Quilting

Creating a Quilting Plan – Windswept Quilt

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...


Modern Quilted Christmas Stockings

Kimberlee Tanner

Tags FMQ, Free Motion Quilting, Holiday, Tutorial

Modern Quilted Christmas Stockings

Modern Quilted Christmas Stockings I have a serious obsession with Christmas stockings. Every couple of years, I decide I need to make new ones from some adorable pattern I found online. Luckily, with this years creation, I think I can finally say I have the perfect stockings for my dream house. I decided that I wanted to create wholecloth quilted stockings. What better way to highlight and play with free motion quilting than to eliminate the patterns in the fabric and piecing and just quilt my desired picture! As soon as I had the thought, I was so excited to...


How to Combine Quilting Designs

Kimberlee Tanner

Tags FMQ, Free Motion Quilting, Quilting, Quilting Plan

How to Combine Quilting Designs

How to Combine Quilting Designs With so many different quilting motifs available, it’s hard to decide which ones to use and how. With custom quilting, we now have to decide on multiple quilting designs to use on our quilt top. When using multiple designs, how do you decide which ones will work together and how to combine the different elements? This week we dive into techniques you can use to discover how those elements will interact with each other and different ways to combine them to create multiple outcomes.   When deciding how to combine different motifs, I start with...