Quick and Easy Open Heart Quilting Design #506
It’s easy to love your quilts when they’re quilted with Open Heart! It’s February and I’m celebrating with heart themed Mini Blocks and heart designs all month! Open Heart is sure to become a go-to designs because it’s fast, easy, and adds a gorgeous loving texture to your quilts!
Quick Links from this free motion quilting tutorial:
Click Here to learn more about my home sewing machine – You don’t need a massive machine to learn free motion quilting. You just need a sturdy machine and a willingness to practice!
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 this easy Open Heart quilting design
Open Heart is basically a cheater version of Heart Paisley. It’s a cheat because you don’t have to hit the tip of the heart shape or do any travel stitching. This makes the design faster and easier to quilt because travel stitching is S….L….O….W!
Difficulty Level – Super Beginner. While yes, Open Heart is a design almost entirely dependent on echoing, it’s also very forgiving. Even if your lines get closer together and further apart, and your hearts are a bit amoeba shaped, I think it’s still going to look fine.
Design Family – Independent. While it may not look like it, Open Heart has a lot in common with Stippling. You can wiggle around your quilting space and quilt the shapes as big or as small as you like. This makes this a very useful design that can be quilted in bed quilts and art quilts and everything in between.
Where to Quilt It? – This Open Heart quilting design is going to work great as an All-Over quilting design. You can fill your quilts on your home machine or longarm with giant hearts and wide spaced echoes.
I found this a bit challenging to squish into the border of this quilt because the hearts wanted to expand. Remember, it’s easier to quilt bigger on a longarm, but you’ll always have more control and precision on a home machine.
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
Machine Quilting Tutorial for Olive Oil
Love Bubbles Machine Quilting Tutorial
