10. Quilt a Rail Fence with Straight Lines

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. Ms MoomMist says:

    You are SO CUTE! Thank you for these videos!

  2. Rebecca says:

    You mentioned again that machines may not like a certain direction. How does this affect stippling? (Or any other multi-directional design.) Do you just figure that it is a short enough distance to not matter? Do you try to be mindful of that direction and take more care when you have to do it?

  3. Leah Day says:

    Hi Rebecca – Yes, that's exactly right. All machines have limitations and you just have to figure out how far you can push it. For a design like stippling, you will stitch in all directions for 1-2 inches, which usually doesn't cause issues for your machine. However if it REALLY doesn't like to stitch backwards, just consciously limit how much you move in that direction. You can still definitely quilt that design, but it may be more of a right, left, down movement than a forward and back movement. Does that make sense?

    Cheers,

    Leah Day

  4. Have you done a qayg? I'm doing my second, but want to choose a fmq design that-when joined to the other blocks-
    will appear somewhat "all over " I'm stumped for a solution.
    Can you, please suggest an approach?

  5. Leah Day says:

    Yeah, I'm pretty stumped on that one too. Technically it's not a design, but a technique you're looking for. Just start playing with stitching designs in squares or panels and see what you can come up with. There's no harm in playing around with quilting and see what happens!

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