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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…
M Spaeth saved to the stitch
Hi there everyone. With Valentine’s Day just around the corner I thought I’d make up another free PDF tutorial and video for you guys. This one is on how to quilt hearts! I love quilting hearts because they are very forgiving and have a lot of movement. Here are some examples of hearts from portions ...
Dorsi Cupp saved to Quilting
Bordering on amazing! Let’s add a couple more quilting designs before finishing up our…
We got started with the spiral, hook or swirl shape. This week we will talk about another kind of spiral. I call it the backtrack spiral.
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Liz Tench saved to Crafts - Quilts
In this video you will learn free motion quilting tips using circles and squares
Linda County saved to FMQ
These are samples of free motion quilt patterns that can be used in an all over design over the entire surface of a quilt. TAlso the patterns can be combined and used on individual blocks within a quilt. These samples also illustrate the effect of various fabric and thread color combinations
Sue Johnson saved to Quilting
Learn how to machine quilt Stippling, one of the most popular free motion quilting designs, and typically the first design any beginner learns to machine quilt. Watch as Leah Day demonstrates how to quilt Stippling on a home machine on a baby quilt. Also learn how to quilt Stippling on a longarm quilting frame.
Dawn O'Bannon saved to quilts
Welcome everybody! Today I will show you a fourth option for going around corners using the Ribbon Candy pattern. The concept of this option ‘Flow’ is quilting up to the diagonal in the…
Nancy Beecher saved to Quilts Longing to be Armed