Quilting Tutorials — FMQ

How to Quilt an Ohio Star Block As we spend the year learning new skills and creating new blocks, we are also going to provide some inspiration and ideas on how to quilt your blocks. I show a few different ways to approach a quilting plan to help you decide how to quilt your block. The motifs and ideas I show can also be adapted to other blocks using the same shapes.   Quilt Within the Block Pieces One way to approach a quilting plan is to work within the the piecing and filling in the shapes that are there....

How to Create a Quilting Plan It’s been a while since I shared a video on how I create a quilting plan and I’m excited to show this one to you. This quilt continues to be one of our best sellers, and I had so much fun quilting it. It wasn’t a super complicated plan, but sometimes, simple is best!   Thread Color for Quilting I want to talk about thread color a little bit. On this quilt, I just used white on the entire thing. I don’t mind the thread showing more, and when it’s all done, it doesn’t...

Modern Quilted Christmas Stockings I have a serious obsession with Christmas stockings. Every couple of years, I decide I need to make new ones from some adorable pattern I found online. Luckily, with this years creation, I think I can finally say I have the perfect stockings for my dream house. I decided that I wanted to create wholecloth quilted stockings. What better way to highlight and play with free motion quilting than to eliminate the patterns in the fabric and piecing and just quilt my desired picture! As soon as I had the thought, I was so excited to...

Free Motion Quilting for Beginners Last week we made our Floppy quilt, a super easy quilt pattern perfect for the beginner quilter. We included a tutorial to teach you how to make your first quilt top. This week, we are ready to quilt your first quilt. There are different ways to finish your quilts. You can use a walking foot or regular foot and simply sew straight lines across the top. You can also hand quilt it, tie it, or send it off to someone else. However, if you want to explore the world of free motion quilting, this week we...

How to Combine Quilting Designs With so many different quilting motifs available, it’s hard to decide which ones to use and how. With custom quilting, we now have to decide on multiple quilting designs to use on our quilt top. When using multiple designs, how do you decide which ones will work together and how to combine the different elements? This week we dive into techniques you can use to discover how those elements will interact with each other and different ways to combine them to create multiple outcomes.   When deciding how to combine different motifs, I start with...