Free Motion Quilting for Beginners Last week we made our Floppy quilt, a super easy quilt pattern perfect for the beginner quilter. We included a tutorial to teach you how to make your first quilt top. This week, we are ready to quilt your first quilt. There are different ways to finish your quilts. You […]
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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 […]
How to Quilt Negative Space
How to Quilt Negative Space We LOVE modern quilts, but with modern quilts often comes lots of negative space. While this can create a very stunning design, it can also create a headache when trying to decide how to quilt it. It doesn’t have to be that way though! When I’m deciding what to quilt […]
Improve your Feathers
For the most part, I am a self taught quilter. I got very basic instructions 15 years ago and just went for it. I immediately fell in love with the process, but have learned much along the way. I now look back on some of my earlier quilts and am so delighted at how far […]
Stacked Quilting Plan
One of my favorite parts of the quilting process is to sit down with a top after it’s all done and figure out my quilting plan. This is my opportunity to decide what I want to accent and make a focal point and how to best elevate the entire design. I’ve found that the basic […]
More Free Motion Quilting Questions Answered
Did you start FMQ on a regular machine? Is that the best way to try out FMQ? Much !! I did. I actually learned Free Motion Quilting right after I made my first quilt. The very first one I did, I hand quilted, but then knew I wouldn’t get far if I kept doing that […]
FMQ Questions? Ask me!
What is the most common thread you use when there are a lot of color changes in the top? And bobbin?I am not one to constantly change thread color (unless that is what a client requests). I’ve found, that for the most part, the quilting blends well enough that I can use the same color. […]