Machine Quilting Twisted Square, Design #484

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.

6 Responses

  1. Fribble says:

    Go from the corner to a little bit up from the next corner, no traveling needed. This is a Zentangle design called Rick's Paradox.

  2. Leah Day says:

    That's the way I quilted it the first time because it made more sense in my head, but when quilting it's harder to "see" a line consistently spaced from a corner and I kept missing the spot I wanted to hit or veering weirdly to hit it. Some things work better for drawing than for quilting and for this, I think aiming for the corners and travel stitching back is better personally.

  3. Karen Harvey says:

    Love designs like this. The optical illusions are so intriguing.

  4. Fribble says:

    I see. I've only done it with rulers, which probably eliminates that problem.

  5. Kathy says:

    I also tried on a practice square using rulers but it was so much easier using FMQ and heading to the corner. Without your tutorial I would have been Adair to have tried it.

  6. Kathy says:

    Great tutorial!! I have made to blocks using it!! Thanks!

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