Quilt Along #11: Outline Quilting

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.

11 Responses

  1. Mike Pearson says:

    I know you said don't be afraid, but I get really scared stitching back over another line of stitching. I guess I shouldn't worry about, especially since it's only practice. I did not prepare the wholecloth last week, but I'm thinking I might practice following designs/lines and do some backtracking over stitches. It will be good practice. Oh, and I like the shiny fabric 🙂

  2. a1angiem says:

    Here come the negative thoughts. Embarassingly bad. Really bad. I CANNOT travel stitch without overlapping. It's awful. Do I just leave it? My stitches are so small it would probably be impossible to pick them out. Garbage. Maybe this is not for me! It's so hard. Ok. I'm done whining. Good luck, everyone! You sure make it look easy, Leah!

  3. Stella says:

    That index finger tip is great! It's funny to think of the human body as having straight lines that can help a person out, since we're normally so bumpy and/or curvy, but in this case it's totally true!

  4. Pierro says:

    pierro's mum, rosemary here: Your video instruction is always so inspiring! I am working working hard at this. It does not look beautiful but I am proud of actually learning and trying.

    @a1angiem: just keep trying. When you finish a project, give it away to a lovely friend, and then you do not have to look at it anymore haha

  5. Malini says:

    Hi Leah, I had tried travel stitching on my last quilt for feather petals and didn't really like the effect. And went back to the way Feburary's SewCalGals's FMQ Challenge tutorial by Diane.

    So, I'm little nervous about travel stitching.

    The other question I had is, I'm going to be using a pale pink fabric, so what color thread should I be using. I know there are going to many options. But at least some direction would be great. If I had choose a dark color fabric I would have easily used a white color thread to pop. So, for light color fabric what should we keep in mind while choosing the thread color for this project?

    cheers,
    Malini

  6. Sewhappy says:

    hi Leah, on this quilt is it better to match the fabric or opt for a lighter colour to give different effect? I noticed yours was done in a lighter colour, but my first thought was to match it to cloth.

  7. danih03 says:

    i re-linked up because Pat let me know She couldn't view it. Thanks Pat! I changed the name of my blog last night, right around the time I linked up. i guess I confused things a bit?? I should have known something was wrong when none of my pics from my blog showed up. Also, I'm a fairly new blogger. Just when I get used to things, google goes and changes it. Does anyone else have this issue:When I go to my dashbord to view new posts, I can't click on them anymore.I have to use google reader. Quite annoying. Sorry no quilt comment, Leah, except to say It's really fun to be part of a quilting group! And Thanks for being our teacher:)

  8. Jessim says:

    I'm late! I pre-washed, starched, traced, and outlined today!

    I noticed in this post that I made this harder on myself- I started each inner heart on it's own, because there were no lines connecting them. Here I see you connected them to the outer hearts.

    Thanks for drawing such a fun design for us! Can't wait for the next step.

  9. Anonymous says:

    Leah…

    When I travel, I find that my needle flags and I can sometimes see the top thread on the bottom. I changed the needle and the tension but I still seemed to have that problem. Is it operator error or the nature of the beast when travelling?

  10. Anonymous says:

    So I jumped in on this project, never having done any of your previous free motion lessons at all. It's pretty shaky, but I'm having fun. Thanks Leah.

    See a photo of my project with the outline stitching here
    http://wisconsinquilting.wordpress.com

  11. Out of all the free motion quilting lessons I've seen yours have been the best , I've been able to follow along and to get the hang of it a lot easier and today I'm going out to invest in some quilting gloves. Thank you so much for the designs I love them they are gorgeous and a lot of fun. I look forward to doing some more.

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