Day 52 – Spider Web

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.

16 Responses

  1. Melissa says:

    Of course! But I never would have thought of that! Love it!

  2. I have a question for you– when you do your free motion quilting do you use the foot pedal to control the speed of your stitches or do you use your on/off button? I have been doing mine with the on/off button, but that means I have to take one hand off the fabric to stop the machine or to slow it down and sometimes that causes problems. Just wondering how a pro handles that?
    Love these quilting designs. Thanks for this great resource.

  3. SewCalGal says:

    Spooktacular design. Love it. Very creative!

    Thanks for sharing.

    SewCalGal
    http://www.sewcalgal.blogspot.com

  4. Barbara says:

    I am loving your blog and wanted to let you know. I've been telling all my friends and I know that they are checking this out. Congrats on 50!

  5. Love love love this one. I'm getting ready to quilt a baby quilt I just finished and am going to go through all of your designs.
    Thank you so much for doing this. (I said that already a while back – but omgosh – this is such a great resource!)

  6. vivian says:

    Love it! Your DH sounds like a keeper!

  7. Kristine says:

    Oh, I love this one!

  8. Loreen Leedy says:

    Wow, very easy once you know how! A similar process could be used for a nautilus shell, I think. Will enjoy browsing the rest of your blog.

  9. Laura says:

    ¡Hello! I read about you in the quilters gallery news letter, and I´m very impressed with your work, I was wondering if I can link to your blog in mine, most of my followers speak spanish, but I think your videos are universal, very visual and well explained, and I´m sure they will learn of them as much as I do. Either way I want to congratulate you, and since now I'm following your blog.

  10. Leah Day says:

    Hi Laura – Yes, that's perfectly fine! The more links the better.

    Gale – I don't use a stitch regulator, just my regular foot pedal.

    If you do have to push a button, see about moving it to where you can hit it with your elbow maybe?

    I can't imagine how hard that is! Consider switching back to your regular pedal. It might take some time to get used to, but at least you would have control again.

    Let's go quilt!

    Leah Day

  11. shiny4444 says:

    This is a gorgeous design – I'm going to make a quilt just to use it!!

  12. I really love this one, wish I had seen this one before I quilted my Little miss muffett block, congrats on 50 I love this blog!!

  13. Poppyprint says:

    Nice web, but Your mom shops at Vic's Secret!?!Holy Cow you must be young! Then I checked your profile and YOU ARE incredibly young. How lucky to have all this talent at your age. Thanks for sharing. I wish I'd started quilting at your age. Whenever I meet someone who says "as soon as I retire I want to start quilting" I do whatever I can to encourage them to start, like, NOW!! This is such a cool project you're doing – gotcha on my sidebar.

  14. Carmen says:

    I'm just starting to learn to sew and aspire to be able to do things like this. (I love stuff like this *g*) Can I ask if it's not to personal a question why you wear gloves? Does it help? (Trying to accumulate tips here)

    Bookmarking this page to come back and try when I'm a bit more experienced 🙂 Thank you.

  15. Ila says:

    How cool would this be in glow-in-the-dark thread!!

  16. Hi! I was wondering about uniformity… Is this one giant web on a quilt or a bunch all over the quilt? As it stands I don't have blocks, it is a strip quilt I'm working on, and I was wondering how I could incorporate this!

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