Ready…Set…Go! We are finally ready to get stitching. As I mentioned on Monday, when you are thread painting (or doing free motion embroidery – both terms are used) you can either stitch with a zig zag or a straight stitch. If you can NOT drop your feed dogs and have…
Getting prepared Yesterday we learned a bit about thread painting and previewed some fabrics to use with the Tutti and Konfetti threads from WonderFil. Today we’re going to assemble the rest of the supplies we need and get our sewing machines ready to do some thread painting. What do we…
Bordering on amazing! Let’s add a couple more quilting designs before finishing up our free motion quilting sample book. Almost every quilt has borders – wide ones, skinny ones and everything in between. Sometimes it’s a challenge to find the right design for the borders on your quilt, so today…
For the love of flowers I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE free motion quilting fun with flowers!! As a result, I have quite a few different flower designs that I use and I try to learn new ones whenever I can. But before I show you my favorite flowers designs, I’m going…
Landscape elements are great for modern quilts! Sometimes it’s a challenge to decide on the free motion quilting design to use for quilts such as landscapes, art quilts and modern quilts. In these cases, nature designs such as pebbles, water ripples and flames work so much better than hearts, stars…