Beginner's Guide to Free-Motion Quilting: 50+ Visual Tutorials to Get You Started Professional-Quality Results on Your Home Machine
Natalia Bonner
Language: English
Pages: 176
ISBN: 1607055376
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Photo tutorials show stitching in action for 50+ free-motion quilting designs to create modern quilts with classic style! Popular blogger and designer, Natalia Bonner, illustrates her instructions with detailed photos that make it easier to get beautiful results on your home sewing machine. Learn how to quilt all-over, as filler, on borders, and on individual blocks…using loops and swirls, feathers and flames, flowers and vines, pebbles and more! Includes tips for choosing batting and thread, layering and basting, starting and stopping, and prepping your machine are included. After you’ve practiced, show off your new skills with six geometric quilt projects.
petals. 1 2 tip On a small- scale flower (or leaf), a single vein may be enough. Just place the vein in the middle of the petal (see Daisy Drops, page 110). Quilting on Appliqué 87 Circles A string of little circles on the petal adds a cute touch. For more details on stitching these, refer to Step 3 of Flower (page 83). STEP 1. Begin stitching at the base of the petal. Stitch 3 or 4 small circles up the center of the petal. STEP 2. Stitch back to the petal of the flower on the original
orange/green half-circles to the 8 half-blocks and the orange/green quarter-circles to the 4 quarter-blocks (as pictured). Figure 6 Figure 7 Figure 8 116 Beginner’s Guide to Free-Motion Quilting Putting It All Together Seam allowances are 1/4˝ unless otherwise indicated. 1. Refer to the assembly diagram to sew the blocks into rows. 2. Sew the 5 rows together. Assembly diagram Happy Dots 117 Quilting and Finishing 1. Mark the quilting design on the quilt top as described in How to Use
batting drapes beautifully and is breathable and cool like cotton. However, it can be expensive. The recommended quilting distance is 8˝. I prefer to use a cotton/polyester blend batting. My favorite brands are Quilters Dream Blend 70/30 (70% cotton, 30% polyester) and Hobbs Heirloom 80/20 Cotton Blend (80% cotton, 20% polyester). You can buy batting by the yard from a roll or precut and packaged. I prefer batting from a roll. I find that prebagged batting is often hard to work with because the
the quilt layers. If you are basting by hand, use long strands of light-colored thread and take very generous stitches so they can be easily removed when you’re finished quilting. If basting by machine, use a walking foot and work from the center out in sections to create a grid. Machine Quilting Basics 17 For pin basting, use size #1 or #2 safety pins. Curved quilting pins work especially well. I recommend using approximately 75 pins for a cribsized quilt and up to 350 pins for a queen-sized
“vines.” Allover Quilting 29 Loops and Hearts Pattern is on page 130. Hearts are a sweet addition to loops. STEP 1. Stitch a couple of loops, as described in Single Loops (page 25). From the last loop, stitch to a point that will be the center of the heart. STEP 2. From the center point of the heart, stitch out to one side to form half of the heart; pivot and stitch back on a line that mirrors the first line, ending in the same place where you began. 1 2 3 30 Beginner’s Guide to