Practice Echoing on the Grace Qnique 14+

When you quilt a shape, then quilt around it again with a parallel line that is called Echoing. This is one of the most important techniques to learn in machine quilting because evenly spaced lines are used in so many different designs, and it looks really pretty on any style of quilt.

See those rows and rows of evenly spaced lines in the background? That’s echo quilting!

In this last video on my Peaceful Goddess quilt blocks, I’m quilting the background with a Super Spiral on the Grace Qnique 14+. This is unique because I usually quilt this design with a walking foot on my home machine.

But with practice you can quilt continuous echoes like this with free motion quilting! I found the open toe foot on the Grace Qnique created a perfect spacing for lines around 3/8 inch apart. That was perfect for the scale of my Peaceful Goddess blocks so I quilted around the appliqued circle, then around and around to fill in the background completely.

See how it works in this new sit down longarm quilting tutorial:

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I’ve been getting a lot of questions about the hopping foot on the Grace Qnique and if I find that annoying or not. I actually hardly notice it anymore!

The foot base is so wide and the open toe gives me a clear view of the needle so the hopping doesn’t bother me as it’s outside of the place I look at while quilting.

The difference between a longarm and a home machine is that longarms have the hopping built into the mechanics of the machine. Every time the needle comes up, the foot comes up. Every time the needle goes down, the foot goes down.

This isn’t like the darning feet for home machines I alter in this video. You can’t bend or break it to stop the hopping action on a longarm. It’s a built in feature.

So while it’s annoying to see in the videos (yes, I agree), it’s not a problem when I’m actually quilting.

Now that I’m finished with this Peaceful Goddess quilt project, what would you like to see next? Share your suggestions for new sit down quilting videos in the comments below!

Let’s go quilt,

Leah Day