Free Motion Quilting Design Heart Lines, #518

by LeahDay · Published September 8, 2021 · Updated September 8, 2021

Today is the perfect day to learn how to quilt Heart Lines!

Heart Lines free motion design

Since the birth of our daughter Betty, I feel like my heart has tripled in size. Here’s my favorite picture so far of Betty’s beautiful smile:

Baby Betty Day

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.

I’m also quilting on a Janome 1600 set up on a Grace Hoop Frame. This makes quilting feel so much easier because the machine is moving on wheels instead of the quilt being pushed over a table.

Learn more about machine quilting Heart Lines:

Difficulty Level – Intermediate. Quilting Heart Lines is pretty simple, but it does involve a bit of travel stitching and being able to fit the hearts into the gap spaces. Take your time with each heart and feel free to mark the shapes if you need to.

Design Family – Edge to Edge. Heart Lines is quilted from one edge of your quilting space to the other. This will look great quilted across narrow spaces like borders and dashing.

Where Do I Quilt it? – I think Heart Lines is a perfect border quilting design. You can Stitch the gap spaces parallel with the edges of the quilt to create a lovely frame for the center of the quilt. You can also stitch Heart Lines perpendicular to the edges to add even more funky texture and heart shapes to your quilt.

Are you still searching for the perfect design for your next quilt? Check out the latest designs shared to our Quilting Design Library here.

Let’s go quilt,

Leah Day