Hello My Quilting Friends! I have a very fun interview for you today with Amy Johnson from Amy's Free Motion Quilting Adventures. Amy runs TWO quilt shops - her online quilt store and a brick and mortar sewing machine dealership in Lynchburg, VA.

Amy is well known for sharing tutorials for quilting with rulers. She's was one of the first quilters to try longarm rulers on her home machine and she's taught two Craftsy classes on this topic as well: Quilting with Rulers on a Home Machine and Creative Quilting with Rulers.

The DVD version of her popular first class Quilting with Rulers is currently on sale.

Finally, we have new video versions of the podcast where you get to see what I'm working on through the beginning of the podcast.

The interview section will just be a still image of Amy and me, but soon the entire podcast will be video.

I love the idea of covering a quilt with this funky design, but marking every square didn't seem very fun. By quilting from the back with patterned backing fabric, I think this would be the easiest way to quilt the design.

Click Here to check out the Twisted Square Fabric on Spoonflower.  Note: I purchased 2 yards of the Minky fabric so it would be wider so I could use it to baste a larger quilt.

This design is quilted from the edges of your quilting space into the center. So if you were quilting a block, you would begin in the ditch around the edges of the block and quilt to the center to fill it with Twisted Square. If you're filling an extra large block make sure to baste the area securely so it doesn't shift as you quilt from the edges to the inside.

You can also quilt this design from the center to the outer edges. I need to play with this more, but I think it will work to quilt squares radiating out from the center. I do think it will be easier to quilt if all the squares are marked so you can visualize the angle of each square in the design.