Free motion quilt designs

The best way to get perfect quilting is to transfer quilting designs onto the quilt top before stitching. Continue reading to see how!

Learn how to quilt the Hooked Feather Filler Design in this longarm quilting video tutorial from Angela Huffman and APQS longarm machines.

I think we can all agree that as quilters we have this deeply implanted love of creating and being creative, and that creativity doesn’t just stop at piecing a quilt top. Doing the actu…

Finished your quilt top and ready to quilt? Continue reading for 10 quilting designs for beginners perfect for your first quilt!

Free-motion quilting is a technique where you can use your sewing machine to stitch designs onto your quilt without using a stencil or a pattern. This allows you to create custom and unique designs…

Learn three essential free motion quilting designs to unlock all the skills you need to master any free motion quilting pattern even if you have never done f...

Eight Free Motion quilting Tips for Confident Beginners- for when you're sick of making place mats and hot pads!

Bethanne Nemesh | Freemotion Machine Quilting Teacher on Instagram: "I teach a lot of freemotion machine quilting. But also…I want you to feel great tips are accessible all the time. One of my most suggested tips is to learn to pause and make partial motifs of whatever background freemotion design you are doing. Making elements like this seem to disappear under other elements is a subtle but advanced looking change you can make to your freemotion quilting. Also, this trick would let me…

See my second post on Graffitti Quilting here! Some of you were wondering how I decided which free motion quilting patterns to use, and when, while quilting my "Dyed" quilt . I thought I'd do a few posts on how to create an "improv" or "graffiti" quilted background fi

I'm teaching a Free Motion Quilting class starting in April at my LQS, Heartstrings and Heirlooms. I finished up the class sample over the weekend. In the class the students will do larger samples, but I needed a small book of designs to advertise the class. As you can see in the above end view, I used three different types of batting for my sample book - Quilter's Dream 100% Cotton, Hobbs 80/20 (80% cotton and 20% polyester), and a 100% wool. I used a tutorial from a recent Quilting Arts…