5 Tips for Echo Stitching

LeahDay

Leah Day has been teaching online since 2009. She's the creator of the Free Motion Quilting Project, a blog filled with thousands of quilting tutorial videos. Leah has written several books including 365 Free Motion Quilting Designs, Explore Walking Foot Quilting with Leah Day, and Mally the Maker and the Queen in the Quilt.

5 Responses

  1. Jane says:

    Nothing to do with echo quilting, but just seen the 2011 Knoxville winners list – congratulations from the UK

    "Best Home Machine Workmanship Award
    #408 WINTER WONDERLAND, Leah Day, Shelby, NC"

  2. You are such an encourager. I love your work!

  3. Leah, you have been such an inspiration and source of excellent instruction on free motion quilting! I'm quite behind the times here reading this, I know lol, but I'm just wondering if anyone could explain to me please what a "echo-stitching foot" is? I recently bought a free motion foot set for my Janome, and although they listed the name of the feet, there's nothing on exactly what this odd looking foots function actually is! (It is rather reminiscent of a target bull's eye actually!).
    Thank you for all you do…you give so much to all of us newbie free-motion quilters out here, and I cannot begin to tell you how appreciated all your hard work actually is!

  4. Leah Day says:

    Hi Wendy – An echo stitching foot is a darning foot usually with a wider base that is used to visually guide you as you echo stitch. However, it's absolutely possible to echo quilt without this foot! I personally don't like them much because the foot is usually closed which blocks my view of the needle. Practice is always the key, not really the foot!

  5. Karen says:

    How to you work around the blind spot behind the needle bar? I’m having a very hard time with that, and sometimes with perspective on how close/far the foot is from the applique shape I’m echoing dependent on the angle. Could it just be “old eyes”? Thanks! <3

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