Speedy Spiral Quilting Design

I have a gift quilt that must be quilted and finished TODAY! Learn how I quilted it with a super soft, super speedy spiral quilting design:

Click Here to find the Grace Qnique 21. Teaming up with this longarm machine was the only way I could finish this quilt so quickly. With over 17 inches of space to quilt in, I was able to quilt this 60-inch throw quilt with only 4 advances through the frame!

I picked this Basic Spiral design, but unlike the original tutorial, in this video I quilted this design on a massive 2-inch quilting scale. I was comfortable leaving that much space open on this quilt because the batting rating allowed quilting up to 8 inches. This means I could have left 7 inches of space open and the batting would still wear well within the quilt.

I LOVE being able to put a quilt on my Continuum Frame, quilt it, and take it back off the frame in 1 hour or less. I could never consider giving quilts as gifts when I quilted on a home sewing machine because it was just too time consuming and labor intensive.

That being said, I still just managed to finish the binding in time! I finished yesterday evening so the quilt was complete on time. Click Here to find my binding method, which is entirely stitched on a machine.

Whew! That was quite a challenge, but I’m so glad I made it. Now I’m eyeing my stash of quilt tops and wondering just how many I can knock out with this super easy, super speedy spiral quilting design!

Let’s go quilt,

Leah Day

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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.

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