Hello my quilting friend! , I have some exciting news for you this week.

We're nearing completion on our newest video workshop, Squares and Sashing. We'll learn to quilt 33 gorgeous free motion quilting designs that are perfectly suited for square blocks and long sashing areas of your quilt.

Yes, , as you can see in the pictures, these fillers are going to be DENSE! You'll learn how to master "stitching in the ditch" along with travel stitching.

We will be making a beautiful Squares and Sashing quilt. The pattern will be in the PDF learning guide accompanying the video classes.

If you haven't yet taken a class or online video workshop with me, Squares and Sashing will be the perfect fit for you. With our focus on exploring walking foot quilting this year, it's nice to go back to my teaching roots in dense free motion quilting. 

So if you want to make free motion quilting fast, easy, and beautiful, I hope you'll join us by taking this new video workshop next week!

Watch this space here. The workshop will go live ready for purchase March 14th.

Here's a little preview of our next quilt along project in our Walking Foot Quilt Along series, Prism Path. Now that we've completed the Rainbow Log Cabin Quilt, you'll probably be in the mood for something a little simpler and faster to create.

The Prism Path baby quilt is a great choice because it's fun to piece and a much smaller project for your home machine.

Click Here for the Prism Path materials list and schedule, a little more than halfway down the page.

I'll be honest, I had a bit of a love / hate relationship with this Paisley design when I first began quilting. I loved the curving texture and movement it added to my quilts, but I struggled to quilt it without breaking thread.

This is the last of four older tutorials I've just recently updated. The videos had been originally posted back in 2009 and were look looking a bit dated so I filmed a new Ultimate tutorial quilting on both my home machine and longarm.

Click Here to find all four tutorials.

This Paisley tutorial was particularly tricky because I wrote all the text and had everything perfect. Then I clicked "save" and...

(Insert your favorite colorful vulgarity here)

...the site glitched and I lost all my work! ARGH!

That wasn't fun. It took another hour to write it all back out again, but hey, I had already written it once, so it went a bit faster writing the second time.

Anyway, I digress! Please Cick Here to check out the video on Ultimate Paisley. I demo on both a domestic machine and my Grace Qnique longarm so you'll get two perspectives on the classic FMQ design Paisley.

We're starting our third month of the Machine Quilting Party and I can't wait to teach you a new batch of quilting designs.

Now you might be looking at Jagged Plain and thinking - isn't this just Zigzag Lines, but with a bit more punch?

In an way, you're right. Both designs are created with straight lines that zigzag in different directions.

The difference is in how you plan and think about the design.

With Jagged Plain, I begin by marking the foundation - the starting line that guides the design.

Yes, this could just zigzag evenly across your quilt, but I encourage you to make this more interesting.

Jagged Plain can double back and twist, so long as the lines remain straight and angles sharp, and create a much more interesting texture for your quilts.

Last week I was late in getting the weekly Wednesday podcast up, so here's last week's epsidode:

Episode 47 - Mom & Pop Quilt Shop - Laura-Lynn is a longarm quilter from Canada. She and her husband share videos on longarm quilting on their Youtube channel Mom and Pop Quilt Shop.

What struck me immediately about Laura-Lynn is her connection to her community. She's a crossing gaurd, teaches quilting to kids, and quilts for a living. She also does alterations and makes charity quilts for her local fire department.

Laura-Lynn always sewed and her business started naturally a few years ago when someone needed alterations. Then she and her husband decided to make it their retirement income and got a small business loan in order to purchase the longarm and a Janome Horizon 15000.

Well, that's it for this week! Next Wednesday we'll have our new video workshop Squares and Sashing available, so stay tuned. I'm so excited about this one and really hope you'll enjoy it, . I'd forgotten how much I love the elegance of dense free motion quilting.

Let's go quilt,

Leah Day