Free motion quilting designs for half square triangles

Yep…I am ahead of schedule in my quilting…so I threw one of mine on…the quilting will look pretty familiar (remember the “pretty baby quilt”?) I figured I would work o…

I have a project I am working on at the moment, that originally, I thought I could leave the triangles unquilted (46 of them). Well, the linen triangles are a little too puffy for my liking and I really need to quilt them. That started me on this path: Using Angela Walters Shape by Shape…

Free Motion quilting block by block. Free tutorial on various free motion quilting motifs. In this post, you'll learn how to free motion quilt an allover square loops design and also a direction guide to free motion quilting half square triangles

Busy quilting, tearing down wall paper borders and painting walls that is. I just finished painting our family room a light gray Monday and still putting it back in order. I took down the wall paper border in the main floor bathroom Sunday morning and it came down so quick and nice, no damage to the paint, thank goodness as I didn’t want to paint in there. But then I got the bug to see how good the family room one would come down and easy peasy and then we removed the chair rail and now have…

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A new tutorial, ohhh what a great way to start off 2024! The Swirl Point design is a variation on the classic Ribbon Candy design. Let’s look at the basic Ribbon Candy first. The pattern move…

Tips for free motion quilting on a sewing machine; including ruler work: using rulers to guide free motion quilting, doodle quilting, & quilt design.

Free-motion quilting design ideas with tutorial for each design. Try out different free-motion quilting designs to make your quilt unique!

When I started long arm quilting nearly 11 years ago I never thought quilting would evolve to what it is today, and I'm so excited to see what the future holds. In the beginning there weren't very many quilting tools or tutorials on how to use them. Now, wow! I'm blown away at the talent I come across on a daily basis. The quilting and machine quilting community is booming and it is so exciting!! I would like to do a series of posts and share my favorite go to tools that I use to either long…

Welcome to week 284 of Free Motion Mavericks. I'm trying more free motion quilting (FMQ) designs for the Pinwheels and Stars Baby Quilt. FMQ more pinwheel blocks Here are two more pinwheel blocks, FMQ using different designs. Echoing the triangle in the background fabric These blocks have inside borders and flower petals in the middle Here is an image of the designs that I had presented when I was planning the FMQ. Blocks 1 and 2 were quilted for the last post. Today I quilted variations of…