Here is our beginner guide to Free Motion Quilting with a Ruler (also called templates). Free Motion Quilting templates help you to create designs like Baptist Fans, Arcs, Clamshells, Waves and more. This getting started guide will help you install your ruler foot, setup your machine and get started!
Free motion quilting with rulers on domestic sewing machine. Week 3 in a series.
Continue reading for 5 meander practice exercises that will help you learn to put FMQ skills on autopilot so you can focus more on quilting.
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Follow along with this step-by-step to learn how to free-motion quilt swirl designs.
This tutorial walks you through Free Motion Quilting with rulers using the Simple Arc and straight line rulers found in the Free Motion Quilting Essentials Template Set. This ruler is great for stitch in the ditch, cross hatching, curved cross hatches, and even baptist fan.
When free-motion quilting, the feed dogs are disengaged to give you the freedom to move your quilt in any direction. You can create all sorts of unique designs and patterns on your quilt. The trick is learning how to coordinate the speed of your machine with your movements to get even stitches throughout your design. T
On Monday we learned how to piece a beautiful Pointy Eight Dresden Plate quilt block and next Monday we'll learn how to quilt it with many awesome free motion quilting designs including ruler foot quilting!So today let's learn more about ruler foot quilting and how to get started with this new style of free motion
Surface issues affect free motion quilting. Tips to help.
I hate to pick favs but this one is my Favorite of the Trio. Thread - Iris Mint Batting - Hobbs 80/20 Tools - A ton of templates w...
This is definitely my favorite block so far. Here are the particulars: RULER: 12/13″ arc LEVEL OF DIFFICULTY: 101, Beginner Ruler Quilting, some experience Free Motion Quilting (FMQ) DESIGNS: cros…
This great ruler pack by Inspira and the Husqvarna Viking Designer EPIC 2 combine to make ruler work extremely fast and easy to do. Using rulers is so easy if you know what you're doing. Inspira ruler foot templates. Clover Chaco Liner.
How to choose quilting designs. Talking about types of designs and their uses for quilting, whether free motion, walking foot quilting, quilting with rulers, or even hand quilting.
This week we will mix it up a bit, just in case you are tired of simply working with the Arc ruler. My intention was to use one ruler per block but the straight ruler is such a standard item, I dec…
This is definitely my favorite block so far. Here are the particulars: RULER: 12/13″ arc LEVEL OF DIFFICULTY: 101, Beginner Ruler Quilting, some experience Free Motion Quilting (FMQ) DESIGNS: cros…
Make quilting easy and fast for a beginner quilter with these building blocks quilting stenciles from Leah Day.
I am delighted to have Patsy Thompson as our December FMQ Expert, for the 2012 Free Motion Quilting Challenge. Whe...
In Block 3 we will start using the Arc ruler. During the summer, when I was preparing for this series, I jotted down designs I liked and was surprised at how many used an arc pattern. So much so, t…
As you know Karen Azevedo is doing a traditional boutis for our challenge and I am doing the same chosen pattern on a vintage linen but I'm doing it free motion quilting. I love to do wholecloth miniatures so thought this was the perfect opportunity to do another one. I chose a beautiful drawn-thread work linen and tr
Looking for some quilting inspiration? Try these Nine Patch block ideas.
It's the last week of free motion quilting grid-based designs and I'm adding clamshells to my quilting sampler. Using a marked grid makes this design so much easier and uniform. Each clamshell is made by one curved line. The top part of the shape is made from the two clamshells above it. The line of stitching is a semi-circle going across two squares. essentially, four squares of the grid mark one entire clamshell shape. Here's a video: The basic clamshell is able to be used in many different sizes depending on the type of project you are quilting on. Clamshells can be easily dressed up with extra fills or lines. Have fun with variations! Wheee! If you are particularly talented, you can add in the variations as the clamshells are stitched, reducing back tracking. (I am not quite that talented.) Curvy lines going into the clamshell from the side. I didn't care for this one too much. Tear drops from the center top. These center top variations are easier to add as the clamshells are being stitched than some of the other variations. Spiky fan things. Clamshells with swag.... Above, I repeated the clam shell curve upside down before transitioning to a smaller clam shell. I went back and put a dot in the center of each square, essentially making a grid twice as small before I stitched this tiny size. Now here's some longer clamshells with tear drops in between each one. Let's just ignore the foul-up just to the right of center above, shall we? Added additional tear drops and swaggy curves. Clamshells are a wonderful, versatile design, but be careful when choosing their size. I had to go back in and do these variations, not just to show you but also because the plain clamshells weren't as dense as the rest of my quilting on my sampler. I don't stitch clamshells often, so I consulted a great book by Renae Haddadin, Fill'er Up Quilting Designs, to get some ideas on the variations. Great book! Participation in the link party portion of this blog series is way down. I bet a lot of folks are busy with summer time things, but still, if you have a blog and have done some of these grid-based designs or others, go ahead and link up to share your creativity. Some quick rules: Keep your post relevant to this quilt along please. Spammy posts will be deleted. Make sure you link up to the individual post, not your home page as nobody wants to have to search around for the post if they're a little late to the party. Reciprocate! Link back to this post somewhere in your post or use the clickable blog button in your sidebar. You've got to dance with the one who took you to the party, so make sure you link back. Don't be a wall-flower. (Talking to myself here too. In person I am so stinking shy!) Visit the other links, be sociable, and leave comments. Please make sure you leave me a way to contact you if you are a no-reply commenter, especially if you ask a question. Don't forget to bookmark this blog, follow, or sign it up in your favorite feed reader. Like the facebook page (I do post some short things on it pretty regularly), or even check out my Pinterest boards. I'll be visiting you too! Next week the design of the month is feathers!
How to Free Motion Quilt; Choosing designs
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I have a neat new quilting design for you today! It’s appropriately titled Neat Fans: I realized the other day...
I'm teaching a Free Motion Quilting class starting in April at my LQS, Heartstrings and Heirlooms. I finished up the class sample over the weekend. In the class the students will do larger samples, but I needed a small book of designs to advertise the class. As you can see in the above end view, I used three different types of batting for my sample book - Quilter's Dream 100% Cotton, Hobbs 80/20 (80% cotton and 20% polyester), and a 100% wool. I used a tutorial from a recent Quilting Arts Magazine issue (the February/March 2014 issue) to make my little book. The instructions involved drawing some lines on a piece of fabric, then sewing on the lines with a walking foot to make a larger sheet and baste the layers together. Then you quilt your designs and cut the "pages" apart. The tutorial in the magazine was very good. If you are interested in making a book like mine, I suggest you get a copy of the magazine. Below is a collage of designs I plan to cover in the class. Along the top of each page I wrote the name of the design, the batting type and page number from the book I will be using for the class. In case you are interested, I'm using the book Free Motion Quilting with Angela Waters. It has become my go-to book for quilting ideas as of late.
This week we continue Ruler Guided quilting exercises for the Arc Ruler. This is geared towards anyone who is just starting, or interested in exploring ruler guided quilting. Here are the four exer…
Free motion quilting with rulers on domestic sewing machine. Week 3 in a series.
