9. Pump Up Your Quilt’s Intensity with Boomerangs

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. Tsigeyusv says:

    I noted that the boomerang section was not outlined first. Is that because you knew it's travel stitching would be sufficient? I'm trying to understand when the travel stitching along the outside of an area would be done and when it can be skipped.
    I haven't had a chance to quilt along yet, but my fingers are getting itchy to start

  2. Kelly Vetch says:

    Since finding this blog, I feel like my quilt vocabulary has grown immensely. I am learning new things every day, I am inspired to create my own designs, and my sewing machine hasn't stopped stitching! Thanks for sharing 🙂

  3. Anonymous says:

    Good Morning, Leah. I love this "new" look in brick. I also love your postings – I look forward to them while I eat my breakfast and then run off to work thinking about quilting at night!
    A few questions…Do you use a special sized needle given the thread density at the "points" in the pattern? I'm alo using a fairly heavy black fabric – feels almost like denim, should I use a "heavier" needle? And question #2. I didn't outline the whie/cream rays before I McTavished them…do you recommend doing the outlining before you stitch each segment?

    Thanks for this. I've put everything else down just to work on this!!

  4. Leah Day says:

    Hi Suzanne – For needles, no, I'm using the exact same needle I used for stitching Zippling. It's a Universal 80/12 needle, so nothing special.

    On outlining, there is no rule other than to quilt what YOU like to achieve the look you want. I would outline the area first, but that doesn't mean you HAVE to. Does this make sense?

  5. Leah Day says:

    Hi Tsigeyusv – On outlining, I was in a hurry to shoot the video before my family came banging down the stairs 😉 After filling it, I went in and stitched the outline. As for when it's necessary – anytime you want to do it. There is no hard and fast rule with this. I think it looks better to have the outlining, but some quilters don't, so take a look at it, stitch a bit, and make the decision that works best for the way you want to make quilts.

    Cheers,

    Leah

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