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This week we're advancing our pantos with evenly spaced rows in our beginner pantograph quilting series, but before we get into that, let's start with our Free Motion Quilting design of the week which can be stitched out easily on both a longarm and home machine (both of which I demo on in the video below). 

We're all familiar with this design, but a few years ago I put together a comprehensive tutorial on how to really master this one.

And the name of this design is... Stippling!

The Rules of Stippling

All free motion filler designs have basic rules that govern how they are stitched. These rules are as simple and easy to memorize as the rules behind cursive writing. Once you memorize the rules of a design and practice quilting it, you will be able to quilt it anywhere.

The rule behind Stippling is very simple:

Stitch a wiggling, meandering line that doesn't cross itself.

Click Here to read the rest of our tutorial on Stippling.

Longarm of the Month: The Qnique 19X Elite

All through September this newest longarm in the Qnique X series is on sale for $7499, which is one thousand dollars off the regular price.

Grace is also throwing in a free accessory pack:

• Ruler base for ruler quilting
• 4 Piece Hopping foot set
• 1.5 inch Mini Quilt Clips
• Longarm bobbins
• Pack of MR size 18 needles
• Three quilting rulers (the Super Slide, Mini Slide, and Slice)

Click Here to learn more about the Qnique 19 X Elite.

How to Evenly Space Your Rows for Advancing Pantos

It's time to pick up speed with pantograph quilting and learn how to advance the quilt and stitch evenly spaced rows. Learn how all of this works in this video tutorial:

In the last tutorial we quilted a partial first row to begin quilting our quilt. I'm quilting a multi-row pantograph so I had one more row to quilt across before I needed to advance my quilt.

Advancing the quilt means shifting the quilt through the frame to reach a new open space in the quilt so you can stitch more rows.

The rule for LeahDay.com Mix n' Match Pantographs is simple:

Stitch up to the red line, roll back to the blue line.

This means when you finish quilting your row, stitch up to the red line marked on the pantograph.

Drop the needle in the down position. This locks the quilt, machine, and laser together. This is super important and the key to advancing your quilt and achieving this even spacing between the rows.

Click Here to finish this week's pantograph quilting article.

That's it for this week, . We just got a wonderful blast of cool fall weather this week so I've strung up a clothesline between a birch tree and our new front yard gazebo to air dry some new painted fabrics I'm playing around with!

Let's go quilt,

Leah Day