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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 was playing around in my sewing room the other day. Just playing around with ideas and I came up with a very simple table runner or mini quilt. I took a piece of pretty flowered fabric that was cut to 14" x 18" and placed my Bunny Butt design on one end and then my Flopsie Bunny design on the other end. I appliqued around them using a buttonhole stitch. Then I layered with with a plain cream backing and a scrap of batting. I was thinking a small project like this is perfect if you want to play ...

 I was playing around in my sewing room the other day. Just playing around with ideas and I came up with a very simple table runner or mini quilt. I took a piece of pretty flowered fabric that was cut to 14" x 18" and placed my Bunny Butt design on one end and then my Flopsie Bunny design on the other end. I appliqued around them using a buttonhole stitch. Then I layered with with a plain cream backing and a scrap of batting. I was thinking a small project like this is perfect if you want to play ...