Quilt Along #15: Sharp Stippling

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. Anonymous says:

    My question is actually about drawing out your designs on the computer (like for example, your hearts and feather wholecloth). What program do you use for that?

    I've been playing around with EQ7 for making quilt designs and patterns for awhile but have not been satisfied when trying to design original free form stuff.

    I'm trying to make the leap from drawing with a pencil on graph paper to computerized drawing and am trying to find out what professional quilters actually use for that. (Adobe Illustrator??)

    Thanks!!
    –Christa

  2. Thank you Leah,
    a fantastic tutorial and it looks so nice!
    Liebe Grüße
    Bente

  3. Anonymous says:

    I did a design very simalir to this on my last quilt for work I really loved it once I got the hang of it.

  4. a1angiem says:

    A. love this design – nice to have a 'rest stop' at the points!
    B. Aren't we spoiled to have 11" of space for that quilt on the Horizon!
    C. Your hair looks very pretty down! 🙂

  5. Alfon says:

    You always are improving our standars

  6. Barbara says:

    Leah, Thank you sooo much for including manuvering the full sized quilt while showing us how to sharp stipple. Watching you gave me the confidence to squish and bunch up my quilt to machine quilt any pattern. It was also helpful to listen to the commentary about tackling a small section at a time and taking a break from the physical position. I can't wait to get home from school and quilt!

  7. Unknown says:

    Leah,
    Thanks so much for you videos and encouragement to machine quilt . I have been a hand quilter because I was afraid to try. You have remove my fear. My hardest part is the list of things do before I start …gloves, thread, right needle, slider, stitch length etc but I am getting there.
    Thanks again.
    Donna

  8. Ann in Texas says:

    I Love your tutorials. You have sure given me alot of inspiration when it comes to deciding how to quilt a quilt. Thank you so much.

  9. Mari says:

    Leah I see that you are using a Janome Horizon machine. Do you lower the feed dogs or leave them up? Also do you set the stitch length to 0?

  10. June D says:

    I only have a tumbler quilt that is ready for basting – everything else is in pieces or being done QAYG. I"ll get fabric together to make the quilt so I can follow along. Will be nice to end up with a quilt at the end! Thanks Leah!

  11. kupton52 says:

    Really one of the prettiest stippling designs I've seen…flames are one of my favorite designs anyway. The more I watched and the more I tried this though, the more I saw whale tails…those beautiful tail fins. I think that's even prettier than flames.

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