Celebrating Beginners with 50% Off All Downloads

Published: Wed, 05/04/22

Hi ,

Josh here today, and I'll cut right to the chase -- we're running a massive Mother's Day sale (more like a Mother's Week!) where all of our download patterns, video workshops, ebooks, and embroidery collections are 50% off their usual price.

Sale ends midnight Sunday May 15th, and while it officially starts this weekend with Mother's Day, I thought I'd give our newsletter friends an early start.

Click Here to check out all of our download patterns, books, embroidery, and workshops on sale for half off.

Back to Basics with Building Blocks

I invite you back in time with me to 2014 as we take a look at one of our best beginner quilting projects, the Building Blocks Quilt Along.

If you want to significantly improve your free motion quilting, the Building Blocks Quilt is your ticket. With 12 unique blocks, you'll get more than enough practice free motion quilting each three to four times to make 42 blocks for the finished quilt.

The best part is you can't get more beginner than I was with free motion quilting! Forget free motion -- I had never operated a foot pedal to make as much as one machine stitch.

In fact, the only physical contact I had with sewing machines was carrying them for Leah to classes and workshops.

Take a look at my beginner free motion quilting in the blocks below:

Now compare my blocks with Leah's in her finished Building Blocks:

We assembled all written instructions from our monthly quilt along into one convenient PDF pattern, totaling 94 pages!

Click Here to purchase and download your Building Blocks quilt pattern.

If you've been wanting to stitch along with a raw beginner, I've put together a youtube playlist with hours of my beginner stitching in free motion, displayed at the very bottom of today's newsletter.

Sometimes Leah is along beside me as I quilt, offering tips and advice, and sometimes I'm on my own. Learn with me as I struggle through circles, which was extremely difficult at first, and laugh with us as I yank off the knee lifter and experience almost immediate improvement in stitching!

If you're committed to daily practice your free motion quilting skills, Building Blocks is for you. And if you put in as little as an hour of quilting a day as I did, I guarantee you'll see improvement in no more than a week's time.

Let's go quilt,

Josh Day

PS - Don't forget to check out our download sale! And yes, Building Blocks is also 50% off at $14.95.

Beginner Machine Quilting Fast and Easy Four Patch Quilt Block

Click Here if my beginner FMQ playlist does not display for you.