Home Machine Quilt a Scrap Overload Block with Rulers
Welcome to April’s home machine quilting video! I decided to machine quilt my Scrap Overload block with rulers! See how this works in this new quilting tutorial:
Click Here to learn more about the Eversewn Sewing machine I’m using in the video.
Check out the Slice ruler I’m using in this video.
Click Here to check out the ruler foot which will work on all low shank machines.
Simple Straight Line Quilting Design
I know we’ve been overloaded with some heavy scrap piecing for both this block and last month’s Checkerboard Block.
I kept the quilting on this Scrap Overload block fairly simple by first echo ditching around the center background diamond shapes. Echo Ditching is a fun and easy technique to quilt with rulers. You just line up a straight edged ruler against the ditch line on the quilt. Using the ruler as a guide pressed against a 1/2-inch wide ruler foot, you will quilt exactly 1/4-inch away from the ditch.
Simply line up the edge of the ruler with the ditches on your quilt to do Echo Ditching!
After quilting around the center diamonds, I moved to the border and echoed the half square triangles around and around to create a zigzag design through this area. It was fast, easy, and added a nice open texture to a very scrappy block.
This block is so scrappy, it’s hard to see the quilting design!
We’re going to have lots of fun to quilt on a longarm too so make sure to swing by next week to see a different take on quilting it!
Let’s go quilt,
Leah Day
