Have you been following along with the Machine Quilting Blog Hop? Four friends, (Kristin, Jenny, Vicki and HollyAnne) are working their way through mine and Angela Walters’ book The Ultimate Guide to Machine Quilting. They are sharing their amazing practice week by week.
The Original Inspiration
This week they are practicing motifs from Fractured Squares in the book. In my version of the quilt shown below, I quilted straight and wavy lines using a walking foot for the whole quilt.
In Angela’s version, she free-motion quilted quilted fun, geometric motifs on her long arm.
Machine quilting practice
Now let’s take a look to see how the amazing blog hoppers interpreted these designs in their own way.
HollyAnne chose to quilt Angela’s chevron designs, but rather than doing them free motion, she used some of my tips for walking foot quilting. Don’t these look great?
Click here to see more of HollyAnne’s practice samples.
She’s included a video on her progress, and has shown how to quilt some of these designs on a real quilt!
Kristin focused on the center motif in my version of Fractured Squares for one of her designs. She also embraced one of my other tips: if you want your machine quilting to stand out, use a highly contrasting thread. If you want it to blend in, use a matching thread.
Be sure to check out Kristin’s blog post to see what she did with the wavy lines!
Vicki also chose to quilt the chevron motifs, and combined them with some of the other free-motion designs from the book. I really love it when others take these ideas and change them up to create new combinations.
Click here to check out some of the other motifs Vicki tried, plus watch her video for more inspiration!
Finally, Jenny combined several of the designs in the same block and I really like how it turned out, don’t you?
Click here to read more details of Jenny’s progress on her blog.
Be sure to continue to follow all 4 of them and watch their progress. I think they are doing such an amazing job, don’t you?
Click here to pick up your copy of The Ultimate Guide to Machine Quilting, signed by me and Angela Walters.
Christa Quilts 
Thanks for sharing Christa! You have really packed that book full of great ideas!