Quilting a Real Quilt #1

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.

3 Responses

  1. Andi says:

    You are right when you say there are a million ways to quilt! Each quilter has her/his own style, but it's fascinating to peek over your virtual shoulder as you go through the design process. Thanks for sharing!

  2. Adam Yoeckel says:

    I learned to quilt from you at first, so I began to quilt from the center outwards. This worked well for all the reasons you mentioned, i.e., excess fabric gets pushed out, it gets easier as you go, etc.
    However I recently made a quilt and decided to use a large scale foundational design over the entire surface. Now, unless you want an end in the middle, this has to be done starting and stopping on the edge.
    I found that if I took more time getting the back of my quilt really flat and taped down before basting, that there was no extra fabric in the middle and it really wasn't any harder. I just had to turn my quilt under the machine to which ever "quadrant", as you call it, I was working on.

    Time to shut up and quilt eh? 🙂

  3. Maresan says:

    Thank you so much Leah for referring to my question about quilting and where to start, etc. Boy, my thinking is so rigid and black and white at times that your comments, suggestions and thoughts are such a big relief to me. I am beginning to go easier on myself in the way I approach quilting and how to "do" things and not to do them a certain way or even think about perfection. You are such an inspiration to me and I want to thank you for all you share.
    You are indeed a very special young woman.

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