Quilting Basics 7: Free Motion Quilting Tips

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.

4 Responses

  1. Liz I. says:

    I can't thank you enough for introducing me to the Supreme Slider! I use a queen size plus a regular to maximize the surface and also use it to the side when sewing any tricky materials. It's especially nice for covering up the groove between my machine inset and may sewing table.

    And Machingers have saved my hands and shoulders as they enable me to relax when doing FME.

  2. Al Navas says:

    Wonderful! However, I wonder if I might misunderstand two of the terms you use.

    Sometimes, the words "stippling" and meander are used interchangeably. "Stippling" is used to describe a pattern less than 1/4-inch, while "meander" is larger than that.

    What I see in the images and the video is what would normally be called "meander".

    Does it matter *what* we call it?

    Al

  3. Leah Day says:

    Hmm…I've honestly never heard of this. Stippling and Meandering are pretty much synonymous in meaning a design with the following rules – curving, wiggly line that doesn't cross itself.

    When talking about a super dense Stippling design (1/8 inch of space or less between the quilting lines), I often call it Microstippling. But really it's all the exact same design and the exact same rules to memorize.

    No, I don't think it matters what we call it. So long as it makes sense to you!

  4. St-Pierre Johanne says:

    Nice!

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