Machine Quilting

As I was creating the quilting designs for my current quilt project, I discovered some new circle designs to share with you.

Summer is almost over and so are our machine quilting practice sessions – only two more weeks to go! We are moving on to a new technique: free hand feathers.

For this practice session, we will try a design formed by echoing loops – one that I call “teardrops”.

Echo quilting is another random free-motion background fill and the technique we will practice in session #6.

We have reached the midpoint of our summer machine quilting practice sessions! We now turn our attention to random free-motion background fills, beginning this week with stippling.

We are three weeks into our summer machine quilting practice sessions. This session, we will build on the half-circle shape from last week and practice the orange peel design.

Summer machine quilting practice sessions started last week with a straight line grid. This week, we move on to free motion quilting beginning with the classic clamshell design.

You will need a 20″ square of fabric for the quilt top and a 22″-24″ square of batting and backing fabric. Each “block” in the sampler is 6″ x 6″.

Each line of machine quilted stitching must be secured at the beginning and the end. But how?

In order to successfully machine quilt any size quilt on a home sewing machine, we don’t want the quilt to drag while we are stitching. Find out how to set up a workspace for machine quilting.

Making a practice quilt sandwich is, well, a good practice. The safety of the practice sandwich makes it possible to relax and test many things before you ever touch the actual quilt.

I have just completed a quilt top and have been going through the exact machine quilting design process we have been talking about for the past ten weeks. Let’s use the quilt as an example and consider our options for its machine quilting design.