Free motion quilting designs for diamonds

By nature, a pinwheel block looks like it’s spinning in the breeze as the triangle points lead your eyes around the block. Depending on which way you place the points, the block rotates clockwise or counterclockwise. Mix the block orientation on the same quilt, and you’ll create quite a stir!

Early in my quilting experience, I bought a fair number of quilting books, either to inspire me or to help me learn new techniques. With my enforced extended absence from my sewing machine durin…

22 computerized digitized quilting patterns for the quilt Gravity by Jaybird quilts

Greetings! Welcome to Part 3 of the 2019 Free Motion Quilt Along featuring Lewe the Ewe fabric panel by World of Susybee! Wendy Sheppard of Ivory Spring and I are thrilled that you've joined us! This week we're finally ready to free motion quilt. If you're just tuning in to the QAL it's not too late to get caught up -- we have 2 weeks set aside to stitch the center of the panel! Grab your fabric, book, and some thread and get ready to have some fun!! 2019 FMQAL Schedule: Jan 7: Announcement…

Dot to Dot Quilting is the 3rd in a series of online machine quilting classes by Angela Walters. Along with her other two classes, Machine Quilting Negative Space, and Free Motion Quilting with Fe…

The first episode of The Midnight Quilt Show aired last week and I couldn’t be more thrilled with the response. We didn’t have a whole lot of time to go into the quilting of the Variable Star Quilt,

Arches are such a common element in free motion quilting. Sometimes we even do not realize that we quilt an arch. And they are in arches, flowers, crescents,...

Ashley at Film in the Fridge shows how she stitched straight lines to create large and small diamonds on a small quilt. Get the tute.

free motion quilting clamshells

Discover inspiring free motion quilt designs! Explore tutorials, tips, and ideas to enhance your quilting skills and creativity.

(a) Diamonds (b) Hanging Diamonds (c) Broken Plaid, will be using one of these on my antique rail fence top which had a huge hole in the middle.

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

It's the million dollar question for quilters, isn't it? How should I quilt it? Being unable to answer this question has left many a project folded

paisley free motion quilting design

Free motion quilting sampler block using quilt as you go technique. Various quilting motif with tutorial and practice drills so you can practice them too!

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If you are on the hunt for a new quilting motif that you can use for filler stitches or an allover quilting design, the Dabline Swirl Template might be the perfect choice for you. Available in Dabline Quilting Template Set., the Swirl template can add a bit of whimsy to any quilt top. Our quilting template set is full of easy-to-use templates, a template guide, our quilting gloves, and other helpful accessories. This post will teach you how to use the Swirl Template from our quilting…

Bethanne Nemesh | Freemotion Machine Quilting Teacher on Instagram: "The Ray of Light design is my favorite free motion quilting design for modern quilt blocks. On smaller blocks I do it freehand, on bigger ones, with a ruler. I recomend bringing the tips of the rays NEAR the pivot, but not all the way. This avoids darkening thread build up, avoids making a peak if there are a lot of rays, due to micro density, and because the spacing is random, makes for less “comparison”. This is the…