Loose Weave Free Motion Pattern #229

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.

11 Responses

  1. QuilterGuy says:

    Wouldn't this look great in an African inspired quilt or use on top of some natural colored fabric to give the look and texture of a basket?

  2. Leah Day says:

    Great idea QuilterGuy!

    Cheers,

    Leah

  3. Roberta Jehn says:

    This would also look good on a quilt or wall hanging that is made of flower pattern blocks. Even consider a flower scrappy quilt. The "loose weave" will look like a trellis all over the surface.

  4. Ethne says:

    I might just use this on my Threave Challenge piece for the border sashing – I just spent last night picking out the quilting I'd started there previously
    LOVE your feather – oh how I wish I'd get the gumption up to try one – soon

  5. Xicapapoila says:

    Leah, you are obvously a very talented quilter….. and ripper! I cannot see where you ripped the stitches out. How do you do that?
    When I rip quilting I always have a little distracting track of holes marking the area of previously unsatisfactory stiching.

    Anyway, it is a beautiful design. Is it a summer blouse or are you working with wadding?

    Might I ask a quick and unrelated question? Have I missed the last instalment of "How do I quilt this"? I have searched the blog and have not found the forth one. Probably you have been far too busy. But I am anxious that you might have abandoned this project and I was so looking forward to it!

  6. Teresa says:

    Beautiful design!
    I'm curious though, why do you do one horizontal, then one vertical instead of all the horizontal first, then all the vertical? Does it make a difference in the thread buildup or backtracking?

  7. This is great Leah! Thanks for sharing. Would you suggest using this on individual blocks or over the span of an entire quilt???? Thanks so much:)

  8. flisa says:

    Love the star and the feather on your quilt jacket. Look forward to se it finished!

  9. Leah Day says:

    I love that idea Roberta! You could first quilt large, center fill flowers, then add loose weave to the background like a lattice. Gorgeous!

    Julie – You could use Loose Weave in individual blocks so long as it wasn't a very tiny area. If it is, just mark it and save yourself the headache of trying to line everything up on the fly.

    Teresa – Absolutely doesn't matter! You can quilt either line first or second, but to move from line to line, you do need to quilt in one direction, then the opposite at least once in order to move from line to line invisibly.

    Xiacpapolia – The more you rip, the better you get at it! I'll do a video on it because I do have some speedy tricks to make it easier.

    Yes, I'm working on a lightweight jacket that will be fully reversible – one side blue and one red. No, I haven't finished the Over the Top Quilt yet and no, I have abandoned that project yet! I just haven't had time to finish it. I swear I'll get back to it soon.

    Ethne – Jump in and try it! What's the worse that will happen?

    Cheers to all of you!

    Leah

  10. Barbara says:

    I learned a trick that speeds up picking out. That is to get yourself a personal groomer electric razor (for nose hairs etc). Start the line to get about 3 stitches out, then open up the stitchline and run the razor down the line. You can either hold the seam open by hand or anchor the item on your ironing board. I have not had any problems with stretching and it is so fast!

    Also, I finally sat down and read Leah's wonderful article in Machine Quilting Unlimited explaining trapunto techniques. As usual, it was very clear both in text and visually. It made me think maybe I should renew my subscription but then I realized that what I need is to keep on top of this site and really get into From Daisys to Paisleys.
    Thanks for all you do for our community.

  11. ChantaClair says:

    "Eat, Quilt, Sleep Repeat". That's all i want to do! Thanks, Leah, you're a great teacher!

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