Freehand quilting designs

Free-motion quilting design ideas with tutorial for each design. Try out different free-motion quilting designs to make your quilt unique!

Experiment with ‘wavy’ rulers to add movement, dimension to quilts...

In this post, you can explore your options of machine quilting designs as a beginner and create your first quilting project.

These free-motion quilting design tutorials include videos of me stitching them! Wibbly Wobbly Starbles (Stars + Marbles) Way...

Day Two of our Free Motion Quilting Series shows how to practice Waves.

January Lesson: Beginners Guide to Free Motion Quilting January Roundup: Beginners Guide to Free Motion Quilting - Roundup February Lesson: Thread February Lesson: Thread Roundup March Lesson: Choosing Batting & Fabric for Free Motion Quilting *************** I have never loved to practice at anything much (although I like to practice eating chocolate a lot!) When I discovered FMQ I found I could spend hours practicing various designs. This post came about because I wanted to make a group of…

Do you want to do quilting differently this time? Try and learn how to do FMQ in this post on the free motion quilting tutorial.

I'm teaching a Free Motion Quilting class starting in April at my LQS, Heartstrings and Heirlooms. I finished up the class sample over the weekend. In the class the students will do larger samples, but I needed a small book of designs to advertise the class. As you can see in the above end view, I used three different types of batting for my sample book - Quilter's Dream 100% Cotton, Hobbs 80/20 (80% cotton and 20% polyester), and a 100% wool. I used a tutorial from a recent Quilting Arts…

Once you are finished with your quilt, you may be thinking - what's the next step to actually getting this large piece of fabric into a finished quilt. Here are some of my favorite free printable machine quilting designs.

Introduction to Free Motion Quilting - 6 hours $79 Learn a variety of free motion quilting stitches. Use your needle like a pencil and enjoy the freedom of free motion quilting. We will be making sampler piece with 20 different patterns on it. Come see which designs you like best. Beginners welcome! Supply List