Get Started Walking Foot Quilting

Published: Thu, 07/28/16

Rainbow quilt free pattern
Hi ,

Last week I used the beautiful materials in my Quilty Box to create the Twin Rainbow Stars quilts - a pattern that helps you make two quilts at the same time!

This week I begin the quilting process very simply with my walking foot and created an excellent beginner walking foot quilting tutorial. 


After stitching in the ditch and quilting many straight lines with my walking foot, I found I had beautiful open diamond spaces that would be perfect to practice many free motion quilting designs.

Would you like to see this mini project continue? Let me know if you'd like to see more quilting tutorials for filling in the spaces of these Rainbow Star quilts by contacting us, or replying to this newsletter.

Renting a Bernina Longarm
Yesterday I drove to a local quilt shop to rent time on the Bernina Q24 longarm. What a day! I loaded a piece of plain, black fabric, set up a spool of gray Isacord thread, and quilted for hours trying to learn how to control the machine.

Bernina
Now before you jump to conclusions - no I'm not switching to longarm quilting!

 Mostly I'm curious to know how a longarm works and how it differs from quilting on a home sewing machine. Yesterday I learned a lot - like why you don't want to tighten the quilt up SUPER tight because that adds more bounce. When the quilt surface bounces around too much the stitch regulator has trouble working.

I also learned that designs like Stippling are much easier to quilt than designs that require travel stitching. While I had enough control to stitch a wiggly design I knew really well, I definitely did NOT have the control to hit points or travel stitch consistently.
New Quilt Along Block on Monday
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That's right, it's almost a new month, and that means Block #8 for the Machine Quilting Block Party will be coming out on Monday, August 1st.

Remember, all blocks shared so far in the Quilt Along will be $4.99 for the first five days of the month.

We'll be sending out a newsletter Monday morning so stay tuned!

If you have not already done so, please join our friendly facebook group dedicated to this Quilt Along and sharing our progress with quitlers all over the world.

Until Monday, let's go quilt,

Leah Day