Finding Your Flow in Free-Motion Quilting
Learn how to construct spontaneous free-motion designs as you go, drawing on your intuition and understanding of the space.
Even newer free-motion quilters will gain ease and spontaneity in this class. I'll show you the basic skills I rely on for improvisational quilting and give you multiple exercises to try out these approaches yourself. As you watch me stitch and then do your own stitching, you'll grow in confidence and intuitive awareness.
Originally offered at QuiltCon Together!
01 - Introduction
02 - Designs You Know
03 - Basic Skills
04 - Listening to Your Line
05 - Stitching Listening to Your Line
06 - Combining Base Designs
07 - Stitching Combining Base Designs
08 - From a Mark to a Design
09 - Stitching from a Mark to a Design
Not exactly. It's more of an intermediate class. You will need an introduction to free-motion before this class. If you are a confident beginner though (meaning you have ever successfully free-motion quilted on your home machine), then I would say you'll get a lot out of this class. Beyond being able to make a few free motion designs, you don't need to have any particular level of experience. These concepts can be used by quilters of varying experience levels.
Yes! Long arm quilters often take my classes. We are focusing on how designs are built and the process of building the design is the same regardless of the machine you work on.
Class access end December 26, 2023.
In this class you will work on practice quilt sandwiches (fabric/batting/fabric) that are basted together. Two fat quarter sized pieces should be enough for most quilters. Beyond that you'll need your sewing machine sew up for free-motion, and a notebook and pen.
The class price is $45.