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Welcome to our Intro Free Motion Quilting series! We are so excited about this course so we can help give you the confidence to finish your quilts yourself on your home sewing machine or longarm.

It’s time to move onto the Loopy Meander segment of the Intro to Free Motion Quilting course!

I LOVE the Loopy Meander. It is an incredibly versatile stitch that can be customized dozens of ways to make it look different depending on what your quilt calls for.

I love to use it whenever I want to make the quilting look whimsical. It’s great ...

Welcome to our Intro Free Motion Quilting series! We are so excited about this course so we can help give you the confidence to finish your quilts yourself on your home sewing machine or longarm.

It’s Stipple Meander Show & Tell Time! We’re going to wrap up each segment of the Intro to Free Motion Quilting class looking at how I used the stitch we worked on that week.

Each Show & Tell will include some of my first quilts that I did when I started longarming, as well as some recent ones. That way you can see where I ...

Welcome to our Intro Free Motion Quilting series! We are so excited about this course so we can help give you the confidence to finish your quilts yourself on your home sewing machine or longarm.

Today we are going to learn how to work around your quilt block to use the stipple meander as a background filler. That’s right, there is no need to limit your stipple meander to a super huge, loose all over design!

When you use the stipple meander on a small scale as the background it really helps make the block pop, putting the focus ...

Welcome to our Intro Free Motion Quilting series! We are so excited about this course so we can help give you the confidence to finish your quilts yourself on your home sewing machine or longarm.

We’re branching out a little bit today with the Stipple Meander and learning how to change scale, or make it the design bigger or smaller.

Changing the scale of your free motion quilting design is the easiest way to customize the look of a quilting stitch. When you use a small scale design it will look more sophisticated, tamp down the fabric and make ...

Welcome to our Intro Free Motion Quilting series! We are so excited about this course so we can help give you the confidence to finish your quilts yourself on your home sewing machine or longarm.

This is the first quilting tutorial of the course and we’re going to learn how to quilt the stipple meander!

The stipple meander is considered a very basic beginner quilting stitch. And while it the parameters to create a stipple – all curves with no points and don’t cross your stitching – seem very simple, it can be challenging if you have never done it ...

I love using Full Line Stencil to create fun, festive quilting stitches I would never be able to quilt freehand.

In today’s video, I show you how I used the Christmas Lights stencil and a Pounce Pad to transfer to my quilt while it is on the longarm, then follow the chalk lines in a figure-eight style motion to create a free motion quilting stitch that looks a string of Christmas lights.

The results are so beautiful and it makes a great allover design on any holiday quilt. And if you missed our 12 Makes of Christmas video from ...

In today’s tutorial I give you a play-by-play description as I quilt my latest design Star Sign.

You can follow along so you can learn how this easy star and loop de loop quilting meander, and see how I use it to work around the log cabin areas of the quilt, filling the space evenly and working around the star blocks to avoid getting stuck.

I also show you an introduction to ruler work, which is the technique I used inside the stars to make them pop.

This is the last in our mini series on the Star Sign ...