![]() ![]() She has many continuous designs to purchase and is a favorite in the machine embroidery community. I’ll be guest-posting here at We All Sew again, but in the meantime, please join me over on my blog and join my Free-Motion Quilting Idea Facebook group for other free-motion quilting ideas. Amelie Scott currently offers free patriotic edge-to-edge designs if you want to add patriotic stitching to finish your quilt. It can definitely be done! You can use the BERNINA Stitch Regulator to help keep your stitches even. thread, but you can definitely do these on a domestic machine or on the BERNINA Q 20 as well. I did these samples on my beautiful BERNINA Longarm machine Q 24 using Aurifil 50 wt. Sewing Machine block with an open swirl backgroundĭress Block with a swirl/feather background Scissors block with a swirl and waves background I used quite a few variations of swirls in this one. I recently debuted my new block-of-the-month pattern, Sewing Room Sampler featuring my Sewing Room line for Benartex, at BERNINA University. Swirls look especially great when contrasted with other, more uniform types of quilting, like circles and crosshatching. ![]() I echoed the inner swirls and filled in the center with pebbles. I used the open swirl pattern on my Twinkle quilt, featuring my Sparkle collection for Benartex. I know…I don’t like it either, but we really need to stop and then move our hands. You can follow the guide and rotate 180 degrees the last way Say goodbye to marking your sandwich and remaking errors. ![]() In the case of swirls stop when you get right into a swirl’s center, before you start heading out, or stop once you have completed a swirl before moving onto the next one.Īnd I know we’ve all tried it (myself more times than I’d care to admit) but it doesn’t hurt to remind ourselves that, while we think we are smooth enough to reposition our hands WHILE we are quilting (as opposed to stopping before repositioning), SADLY, most of us are not. Choose a quilting ruler that best suits the desired meandering pattern you wish to create. Improve your free-motion quilting, disguise mistakes, and transition between designs with ease. QUILT PATTERN MEANDER - Template to create an accurate traditional meander quilting design This template is easy to use, just need a ruler foot. You want to stop where there is a natural corner to the design, so that when you start again little differences in direction are not noticeable. This on-point bed sized quilt is shown in red, white, and blue, but the design will work just as well sewn in any theme.When stitching swirls (or any motifs, for that matter) think about where you need to stop or start when repositioning hands (or feet in the base of long arms). The meander is often the first free motion quilting motif folks try to learn. Many of the patterns include instructions for multiple blocks and entire quilts. More Patternsįor hundreds of individual block patterns, try my quilt block patterns archives. Having an accurate seam allowance is necessary for making pieces that align properly when you assemble the quilt. ![]() A quarter-inch allowance is used by quilters for most projects. Click on an image to see the actual quilt. 1/4 seam allowance- A 1/4 seam allowance is a 1/4 inch of fabric between where your seam begins and the raw edge of the fabric. Some rectangular quilts are skewed or cropped to squares in the thumbnail view. To view larger images, start with the first page and step through the gallery one page at a time. The patterns in this handy index are illustrated in gallery format to help you preview the designs. Even if a pattern looks complex, I encourage beginning quilters to choose any project in the archives. My quilt patterns always include step-by-step instructions and illustrations that show you just how easy it is to make a quilt. Try one of my free quilt patterns the next time you're looking for a new quilting project. ![]()
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