Josh’s 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.

8 Responses

  1. Karin says:

    That's really good! I think that stippling is actually one of the harder designs to learn but for some reason seems to be usually flagged as a beginner design. I nearly stopped quilting when I tried to FMQ it for the first time…not that easy at all.
    I am enjoying looking at the QAL…this is coming together nicely.

  2. elliek says:

    Stippling is hard so well done Josh. I always get fingers in my stippling. Just had a look at Leah's first video so may have to go and play!

  3. Gladys says:

    WOW! Very well done, Josh! After having practiced yesterday I some stippling, and nowhere near the micro … realy is difficult to me! But you did a great job! Congratulations!

  4. Karen Mills says:

    Josh – the funny thing is that I found the largest stippling the hardest to visualize and maintain since I didn't do any marking with this block.
    Your willingness to stick with a project that you find challenging is a good example to us all.

  5. Kitty says:

    I really enjoy watching Josh FMQ. It is nice to see a beginner. It is easier to learn from a beginner instead of an advanced FMQ.

  6. Seeing the tight stippling gives me hope. I have been trying free motion quilting for the first time and I almost gave up. The darning foot that came with my machine was wobbly and I kept breaking needles. Then, when I got a new darning foot it was skipping stitches! Ugh…. I have decided it is time for a new machine – I have not completed a project on mine that has NOT given me fits.

  7. Jessim says:

    This was a really interesting video to watch, and see a beginner tackle this. I think that the spoonflower fabric might be a real challenge for stippling- since Josh needed to follow lines that weren't going to wash out, rather than find his own organic stippling motion. Even if he had marked lines that wash out, it probably wouldn't have been quite as intimidating, since they don't have to be followed closely.

    I've never marked lines for stippling before- I plan to mark the two larger scales, because they aren't scales I quilt on much (especially on such a small block) but I think the other two are likely to be freehanded for me.

    Great job Josh! Thanks for letting us all watch you learn.

  8. Thank you Josh. I am a total beginner and I find your videos soooooo helpful!
    Great job! I haven't done this block yet so I will be pleased if I do half as good as you dud.

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