Free Motion Quilting

Want to practice your free-motion quilting and make a fun holiday project at the same time? Lori Kennedy at WeAllSew shows you how to create a "vase quilt", just a bit bigger than a mug rug, while working on your free-motion quilting. Free motion-quilting what you may ask? Snowmen, of course!

While it may be only November, the Christmas holidays will be here before you know it. For some that might mean getting ahead on their present shopping, for others it probably means getting the jump on their decorating. And what better way to start decorating then by learning How to Free-motion Quilt a Christmas Tree from Lori Kennedy at WeAllSew. This design will add that festive flourish you've been looking for in your quilts, table runners, napkins, or anything else that might need a touch of jolly this holiday season.

Let Lori Kennedy at WeAllSew show you how to "go Jurassic" on your next quilt by demonstrating how to free-motion quilt a Dinosaur Motif. You'll have a Tyrannosaurus-sized amount of fun adding these designs to any of your projects.

How should you decorate your next quilt? Add some little animals crawling along the border? Stitch in the ditch with some interesting new squiggles? Why not learn something new, as Lori Kennedy at WeAllSew is here to show you how to Free-Motion Quilt an Apple Motif. This tasty design will be the perfect thing to adorn your next work, maybe something for that teacher who's always had your back?

Now that the holiday of thanks is over, it is time for the holiday of giving. And while it's a little early to give out presents, why not start decorating your quilt with some. And so, Lori Kennedy at WeAllSew has a fun technique for Free-Motion Quilting Pretty Packages in the border, or wherever, of your next holiday quilt.

Learn how to free-motion Jack-O'-Lanterns with Lori Kennedy at WeAllSew. It's just another stop on on Pre-Halloween decorating binge!

Did you like the Sugar Skull Mug Rug from yesterday's newsletter? Why not continue the theme in your Halloween decorations and add this Spooky Halloween Border with Sugar Skulls from Lori Kennedy at WeAllSew to one of your quilts. It will make a frighteningly good addition!

TQS guest and teacher Melinda Bula has some great tips to show you how you can plan and practice your quilting lines for your free motion designs on an iPad, and she does it without having to make a single stitch first!

Amanda Murphy is showing a number of quick videos highlighting her tips for free-motion quilting swirls at WeAllSew. They give such great texture and movement to a quilt, yet people frequently struggle to find a style that suits them. But once you learn the basic rhythm, there are so many variations that you’ll be sure to find one that you enjoy.

"The Busy Bee is a delightful motif to embellish any floral quilt and looks fabulous when stitched among appliqué flowers." Learn from Lori Kennedy at WeAllSew how to do this free-motion technique with ease!

Lori Kennedy, author of 25 Days to Better Machine Quilting and long-time BERNINA Ambassador, is beginning a new quilting series called Learn to Free Motion Quilt.

Learn to make a color wheel on fabric with Teri Lucas. She also shows you how to use thread and free motion quilting to create "quilt blocks". Learn how certain threads and colors can change the look of your quilting.