Free-Motion Quilting
Posted By Margaret on March 9, 2010
I just taught a fun class Saturday on Machine Quilting. There was a wide range of experience in class from total beginners to some who had already been free-motion quilting and just wanted to improve their skills. This is a great class to get over your fear of free-motion quilting. We do almost everything without marking…it’s all free-form and therefore much easier than it looks. Also the class is filled with tips on machine quilting like:
- To move fabric easier under the needle, use two squares of non-slip shelf liner under your hands.
- To close basting safety pins more easily, untape basted quilt from the table first.
- Or use a grapefruit spoon to close safety pins while still taped to the table.
- For easy to remove straight line marking, use masking tape.
Check out the video posted here. If you’d like to learn to do this too, I have another Machine Quilting class coming up on Friday, May 7, 10am – 3pm at the Scarlet Thread.
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