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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.

I have so enjoyed making this series and showing you all how you can take four basic quilting stitches and transform them to create limitless combinations on your quilts.

I hope you have enjoyed it too and watched your quilting skills blossom and improve with continual practice.

But now it’s time for a comparison, we’re going to take a look at my quilting ...

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.

Congratulations! You’ve made it to the end of the Intro to Free Motion Quilting course. Now it is time to gather all 16 of the blocks we have quilted and assemble them using the quilt-as-you-go method.

If you’ve never used the QAYG method before, it is a little bit strange when you get started, but the results look great and it’s a ...

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 Wavy Lines Show & Tell Time! We’re going to wrap up our final segment of the Intro to Free Motion Quilting class looking at how I used the stitch we worked on that week.

The wavy line is probably my favorite free motion quilting stitch. I use it all the time because it is easy to make it super simple with wavy lines ...

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 our FINAL free motion quilting tutorial in the series! Congrats, you have made it through all the design options. But I hope you know by now, that the ways you can customize these stitches are only limited by your imagination.

But don’t worry, we still have more videos coming. We have a Wavy Lines Show & Tell, QAYG assembly tutorial and a final ...

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.

I use wavy lines all the time as a block filler. It looks fantastic and is a fast and easy way to separate your piecing from your background.

You can also easily customize it to your block shape. The only limit is your imagination, and figuring out your quilt path.

In today’s video I show you how I use it to create waves fanning ...

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.

In our previous stitches I showed you how changing scale can change the look of your quilting design. With wavy lines, you change the density of the lines to change the look.

In other words, you can keep them far apart for a loose look with a lot of drape, or you can quilt close together for a more dense appearance and a stiffer quilt ...

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 branching out from the wavy line stencil and creating a cross hatched wavy line with free motion quilting.

I love quilting with wavy lines because it is such a versatile stitch. This one turned out really fun and it was super easy.

I walk you through how to divide your quilt block into equal parts so your quilting can be evenly spaced ...

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 starting our final free motion quilting stitch, the wavy line. This is such a versatile stitch that can be customized so many different ways to dress up or down your quilt.

Plus it is very easy, beginner friendly and fast! As always we are starting with a stencil to get our muscle memory down. So grab your stencil pack and let’s ...

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 starting our final free motion quilting stitch, the wavy line. This is such a versatile stitch that can be customized so many different ways to dress up or down your quilt.

Plus it is very easy, beginner friendly and fast! As always we are starting with a stencil to get our muscle memory down. So grab your stencil pack and let’s ...

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 Swirls 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.

I have used the swirl since I first started quilting, so we’ve got plenty of examples of my quilting past and present so you can see where I started and ...

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 using the swirl meander and customizing it five different ways to use in skinny borders. Each uses the basic swirl shape with small changes to create a completely different look.

Basically today’s video is exactly what this course is about. I show you how mastering just a few quilting stitches will give you limitless possibilities when you make slight alterations and ...

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 using the simplified swirl meander as a a background filler. I did mine on a fairly small scale so it would tamp down the background so the block center will be the star of the show later.

I love using different stitches for the background filler and block filler. It really helps define your piecing and make your block shine.

I show ...

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 working changing scale with the simplified swirl. By now you know very well how changing the scale of a quilting design can completely alter the look of a quilt, and that’s the same with the swirl.

By using a smaller scale swirl in the outer triangles and a larger swirl in the center triangle, it makes the center triangle pop while ...

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 working on a simplified swirl which is the swirl I use the majority of the time. It is much easier to master than the stencil we started with, so it is great for all over designs, and can be customized for background and block fillers.

We’re going to continue on with the disclaimer that I am WAY better at quilting swirls ...

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 a new week so we’re moving into a new quilting stitch! This week we’re going to focus on the swirl. You can easily dress it up or down by playing with the scale, adding extra pointy bits or using it as an all over or custom design within blocks or as background filler.

But first we have to start to develop ...

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 Loopy 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.

I use the Loopy Meander A LOT, so we’ve got plenty of examples of my quilting past and present so you can see where I started and 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 taking everything we’ve learned so far with the loopy meander and modifying it to fit inside a skinny border.

We’ll use each of the loopy meander variations and play with scale to create five different options you can choose from the next time you’re wondering what to stitch in your quilt border.

I love quilting borders separately from the ...

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.

My goal when I quilt is to choose stitching patterns that will help accentuate the piecing and fabric. I’ve worked hard on the top and I love the fabric, so I want my quilting to help make both as fabulous as possible.

One of the easiest ways to use your quilting to bring the top to life is to use different free motion quilting ...

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 stitching the double loop meander. It’s exactly what it sounds … after you stitch the first loop, you wrap around a second time to create a larger loop to encircle the first.

The key to making it look effortlessly random is to always switch between making your loops clockwise and counterclockwise. Then you can easily work your way around the entire quilt ...

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 working on changing scale with the loopy meander. Changing scale is one of the easiest ways to change the look of your quilting, and determine how long it is going to take you to actually quilt it.

Whenever I have a whimsical print and very little time to quilt it, you better believe I’m breaking out a medium scale loopy meander ...