Machine Quilting Tutorial for Olive Oil – Design #504

I have a fun new machine quilting tutorial for you this week on quilting Olive Oil. You know, naming these machine quilting designs is half the fun! I sometimes start with the name and try to make a filler design to fit it and sometimes it’s the other way around.

Quick Links from this free motion quilting tutorial:

Click Here to learn more about my home sewing machine – If you’re wanting to begin machine quilting with a small, affordable sewing machine, this is a great choice!

Deluxe Foot Set – This set includes two styles of walking feet, a darning foot, and a ruler foot! These are the feet I use for machine quilting on my Eversewn machine.

Click Here to check out the Grace Qnique 15R – This longarm is perfect for hobby quilters because it’s smaller, less expensive than you think, and easy to learn. The best thing about a longarm is it’s so much faster and easier to move over your quilt. But yep, it does take practice to be able to control it and stitch precisely!

I have my Qnique set up on the Q-Zone Hoop Frame. This frame can be set up as a sit down or standing frame. You can also use your home sewing machine on this frame and upgrade to a longarm machine later. Click Here to see how that works.

Learn more about machine quilting Olive Oil

Olive Oil is a riff on Goddess Tears. Only instead of leaving the tear drop shape open, we’re quilting inside and adding a circle in the center, which kinda looks like an olive to me.

Difficulty Level – Intermediate. This design requires a lot more precision quilting and a lot of travel stitching and echoing. That’s definitely not to say you can’t quilt it as a beginner. It just means that it might end up looking messy – a bit like mine when I quilted it on my longarm!

Design Family – Branching. This family of designs is based on McTavishing, the second design I ever learned how to quilt. Nope, there’s no right or wrong order to learn designs. Just focus on your favorite textures and the more you quilt them, the better you will get!

Where to Quilt It? – Olive Oil was definitely easy to quilt big on my longarm, but I also think it looks great on a small scale too. I think this will make a beautiful design for art quilts or bed quilts, just depending on the size you quilt it.

Let’s go quilt,

Leah Day

Watch more free motion quilting tutorials on both a home machine and longarm:

How to Quilt Electric Pulse

Free Motion Quilting Star Flower Stipple