![]() ![]() But we just did a MAJOR restock on all of our Full Line Stencil fre. Feel free to re-blog, share with attribution to The Inbox Jaunt. Its been a minute since we did a free motion quilting tutorial on a home sewing machine. PS…All tutorials, images and information are the property of Lori Kennedy at The Inbox Jaunt and is intended for personal use only. So if you’re one of the many people who has trouble with Stippling or Meandering…you are NORMAL! Just move on… there are so many choices… Whereas instructions like: Stitch amoebas, don’t cross over, wiggle…are much more difficult to follow. Stitch a half circle…we can all follow these directions….(especially when there’s a photo to go with it!) Instructions like: Start on the bottom line, stitch straight up. Here’s the reason: Our brain works fastest when we tell it what we SHOULD DO, not when we tell it what NOT to do… Whenever one of the little Tykes started running on the wet pavement (very dangerous)-the life guards were instructed to shout “WALK!”… They didn’t shout “DON’T RUN!”… When my daughters were in high school, they were all life guards at our local swimming pool. Stick with me a minute…while I share a story… REALLY? No wonder so many beginners get frustrated and quit Free Motion Quilting! ![]() “Stitch a wiggling, meandering line that doesn’t cross itself.”.“Stippling is closely spaced, random quilting lines that do not cross and are gently curved.”.I did a quick Google search of how to stipple and here are some of the descriptions and directions: ![]() Now, I know many of you like these stitches, and it’s nothing personal…it’s just that every beginner is told to “just stipple”… You can even baste the layers of your quilt together on certain quilting frames.As I have mentioned many times, I want to Ban the Stipple quilting stitch and it’s larger cousin, the Meander stitch. The quilting frame holds your quilt flat and keeps the layers even. Fun fact: You can accentuate quilting lines by using large. Pro tip: the farther apart your lines are, the more they’ll take center stage and become the design of your top. This style came from longarm machines on quilting frames, but can also work great on your home machine too!ĭid you know you can put your home sewing machine on a quilting frame? This makes machine quilting feel so much easier because the machine is on wheels. A version of straight-line quilting, this technique helps you nail both parallel lines and linear designs. Ruler Quilting is a new style of free motion quilting that uses rulers to help guide your quilting design. ![]() The main downside is quilting with a walking foot, dual feed, or even feed foot can be slow and complex designs very hard to stitch. Walking Foot Quilting is the easiest machine quilting style for beginners. We have so many ways to quilt our quilts now! Machine quilting is constantly growing and changing the way we can finish our quilts. Looking for even more machine quilting designs to quilt? Click Here to find the entire Free Motion Quilting Design Gallery. If you’re wanting to quilt your own quilts, make sure to check out all the different quilting machine options available to you today! Click the links below to shop for sewing tables and quilting tools that make machine quilting much easier on your home machine: You can also quilt these designs on a quilting frame where the machine rolls on wheels. You can stitch with your machine set in a table – pushing the quilt over the machine bed. However, all of the designs here will work on any style of quilting machine. I’ve organized this gallery so you can easily find home machine quilting designs and longarm quilting patterns. Each quilting design has a slightly different set of rules which changes how the quilted texture looks and feels on your quilt.ĪLL of the free motion quilting patterns posted to the Free Motion Quilting Project can be quilted on any machine. We machine quilt these designs by memorizing a simple set of rules, much like learning how to write your name in cursive. These free motion machine quilting designs are patterns that can be quilted without marking your fabric.
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