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Beginner Quilting Failures

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.

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  1. I have sewn wedding dresses and children's clothing and done alterations for 50 years. The jerkiness of the stitching and the tension it has created for me is overwhelming. I have the Superslider and I just freeze up. I look at it as can't teach and old dog new tricks. Chris

  2. BEARKIS says:

    Beautiful,love it!!!

  3. Rebecca says:

    Working for evenness of stitch–I burst out laughing when I pulled (about) my third block off the machine! No way was I going to rip it, though…I wanted to be able to see how far I progressed. It helped that highly-skilled, teacher/leader Leah posted a very early (first?) block of her own, which was…a place to start. (Please, laugh)

  4. Ginger says:

    Probably 20 years ago I took a beginner quilting class. The only thing I remember from that class is using scissors and plastic templates to cut out and the teacher telling us that you "never, never, never, ever cross or go over your stitching line when you quilt." I now know that this is not the case, but it took me a while to get over that lesson. LOL

  5. I find keeping a consistent stitch length tricky. Especially when I change speed. And especially on any pattern that involves curved lines. Go to slow and everything looks jerky and clumsy. Go to fast and I get tiny ugly micro stitches. I'm using a thread that doesn't stand out to much while I practice on some placemats, so the unevenness doesn't stand out so much.

  6. Cindy says:

    I just made my 1st practice sandwich…. based on the U shapes in Leahs You-Tube videos from 3 years ago (this one https://www.youtube.com/embed/fFcITNjuGnM).

    My left to right lines look decent/even… my right to left lines look awful O.o
    https://instagram.com/p/5gaMaUDJpR/
    Time for more sandwhiches/potholders!

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