Fmq border designs

Main - Hand Quilting - where do you get your ideas? - I am hand quilting a kaleidoscope quilt. Below is the pattern. I've quilted the light curved areas simply by stitching 1/4 from the seam. I need to select a quilting pattern for: a) the star part of the kaleidoscope b) the three borders -- 1 , 2.5 and 3.5 I just

Bump and bounce. In comparison to the classic feather this requires less backtracking as it's only the outside of alternate lobes which are backtracked. However even the very very best machine quilters who always manage to stay on the line whilst backtracking and even those gods of the quilting world who seem to be able to put their needles into the same holes whilst backtracking, will have these lines of stitching showing as thicker. Because it's alternate lobes looking thicker on the…

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Here are a few border designs in one of my Sketch Books... As you can see from the diagram on the left page, these are a series of shapes that look like question marks I would chalk out the question mark shapes on my fabric, then put it under the needle and stitch plumes along the question marks. This is the same design, just a horizontal orientation. This can be stitched out to fit most any size border. This is a simpler version of the designs above: Here are 4 different border designs. A…

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As a quilter, it’s always a good idea to have quilting designs in your arsenal of go-to techniques…especially if you’re quilting for others. Here are our five most popular border design tutorials… More

I wanted to pass along an easy way to quilt a rope cable border without any backtracking! This is the rope cable stencil from my Ultimate Borders collection. Generally when you quilt this design there is double stitching on every other hump of the cable in order to keep it continuous. Here's a different solution...

I have been exploring the 3 FMQ modes (Spring freemotion, Sensormatic freemotion and Dynamic spring foot 6D) of the machine. As you may have read, I had run into some difficulties. Apologies to non-Pfaff owners, as this will probably bore you to tears. However, there is very little around on the net about this and the manual is of no great help on this issue, so I thought this might be of use. Springloaded foot Open Sensormatic foot Dynamic 6D foot My Springloaded foot as well as the open…

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These are quilts that represent the different quilting designs that I offer. With each one of these quilt designs, I was told by the clien...

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So I have shared with you the overall quilt, the quilting on the pink logs and border. As well as the 12 of the 15 quilting fill patterns. Now do you want to know what I did in the red logs? It was…

You’ve seen them, you’ve probably used them, and you’ve possibly ignored them! Skinny little “separator” borders help us frame blocks, set off larger borders, and make our quilting math come out right.