Check out my finished thread painting! I had so much fun playing with my Konfetti and Tutti threads, embellishing my book cover with thread painting. It’s equally important now to know how to quilt this thread painted surface! I love how the threads make the fabric designs stand out more…
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…
The threads have arrived I’m so excited about the new threads I got from WonderFil – Tutti and Konfetti. I love their zany names, do you? The colors remind me of ice cream and candy of all sorts of flavors! I can’t wait to play with these on my sewing…
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…