Exploring with Machine Quilting - Season 1

Series: Exploring with Machine Quilting

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Episodes

Rating

TVY

Year

2022

Language

English

Publisher

Craftsy

About

Machine quilting has become a well respected art form. Good quilting can take a simple quilt top and turn it into a thing of exquisite beauty.

If you have learned most of the basics such as stippling, how to achieve tiny linked circles, know how to form smooth swirls and pointed stars then you're probably ready to move on to the more complex designs of feathers and flowers. These two motifs are powerful designs and they can add a lot of interest and beauty to your quilts but they can also overwhelm the piecing.

In this class, Heather Thomas will not only show you how to stitch them without ever having to mark the surface of your quilt, she'll also teach you when and where to use them and when not to use them.

You'll begin the process with drawing practice and then move on to actual stitching on practice quilt sandwiches. Heather will show you how to fit feathers into borders, blocks and triangles and how to link flowers and leaves for all over designs in borders or sashing and how to use them as stand alone motifs in blocks etc.

This class is for anyone who wants to take their free motion quilting to the next level.

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Episodes

1. Session 1: Introduction

11m

Here, I will show lots of different quilts that use feather, flower and leaf motifs in their quilting. I will talk about why I chose those motifs for those particular quilts, how I determined the size and scale of the motifs used, what is working or not working with the quilting, what I would have done differently.

2. Session 2: Full Frontal Flowers

49m

In this session I will use drawings and stitch outs to introduce flowers that have a variety of different petal shapes and center styles. I will show students how "full frontal facing" flowers fit inside a doughnut and how to use this idea to practice drawing flowers. I will introduce the idea muscle memory with body movement and paying attention to that movement while doodling so that the same movement can be utilized while quilting. Then I will redraw each flower showing the movement and stitch order of creating each one. I will then stitch out several different flowers, complete an all over flower stitch out and a border with flowers and leaves.

3. Session 3: Leaves and Vines

22m

In this session I will use drawings and stitch out to introduce lots of different styles of leaves and reiterate the importance of muscle memory as students practice the shapes with doodling. Then I will stitch out several leaves, from simple to complex. I will then complete an all over leaf design and a design used for border

4. Session 4: Feathers, Feathers, and More Feathers

1h 13m

This session will begin with an introduction to the anatomy of a feather followed by a discussion of petal and spine types. I will use stitch outs and drawings to show how to achieve various types of feathers then I will do some actual drawing and doodling to show the order of movement utilized during stitching the feathers and reiterate the importance of muscle memory while doodling. I will then stitch out several different feather motifs, finish an all over design and two different border designs.

5. Session 5: Bringing it all Together

Here I will re-show a few quilts and discuss ways to bring together the flower and feather motifs to stitch out whole cloth and quilt & color designs for those who just want to have fun stitching out these amazing motifs.

Extended Details

SeriesExploring with Machine Quilting

Closed CaptionsEnglish

Artists

Heather ThomasActor