This week’s machine quilting tutorial takes the traditional paisley design and modernizes it by adding filler motifs inside the design! It’s a fun way to change things up. Click the image below to watch on my YouTube channel:
Make This Quilt!
Throughout this series, I’ve loved showing how I quilted these designs on actual, real quilts. The quilt shown in the video behind me is called Star Struck and it’s fun to see how different it looks depending on the fabrics that are chosen. Complete, start to finish instructions for this pattern are included in my book, Piece and Quilt with Precuts!
I’m almost finished sharing all of the designs from this series. If you’ve missed any of them be sure to check out the complete play list for hours and hours of viewing pleasure!
Did you know that any walking foot design can be quilted with decorative stitches? It’s a great way to add incredible texture to your quilts! Check out my latest free video tutorial below and give it a try!
After practicing on smaller samples, it’s time to try these designs on real quilts! Below are two bonus videos to watch for free. First, try out those decorative stitches I’ve shown above on my Bling quilt made from Stitchy fabrics:
While supplies last, you can grab the kit to make Bling from either my Stitchy fabrics as shown in the first and second videos above, or Dazzle Dots, shown in the bonus video below.
Here’s another bonus video, showing how I quilted Bling using other walking foot quilting designs I’ve shared in previous tutorials. And don’t forget to checkout my playlist showing how I quilted these designs on real, full sized quilts!
It’s been awhile since I’ve hosted a quilt along, but I’m home for the rest of the summer before travel picks up again in the fall. So August is the perfect time for me to guide you through the process of making an entire quilt from start to finish. However, there’s only 1 problem – I need to know which quilt you’d like to make! Here are two choices up for consideration:
I’ve made this quilt several times over the years with different fabric collections I’ve designed. However, my latest iteration combines both my Dazzle Dots 1 and 2 fabrics for a colorful scrappy look! You can get the Bling quilt pattern as a stand alone option; or if you get the optional Bling kit, it comes with the pattern included.
Please do me a favor and leave me a comment letting me know which quilt you would rather make: Beaded Lanterns or Bling. The quilt with the most votes wins, and I’ll announce the results along with the quilt along schedule at the beginning of July.
Then we will kick things off during the last week of July/beginning of August. So – who’s in??
Want to see how I actually apply my quilting designs to a “real” quilt? Check out this week’s bonus video, tutorial, where I show you how I quilt two different designs on two different versions on the same quilt:
Get the Surplus Strips Quilt Kit!
Interested in making these quilts yourself? You can grab quilt kits with either the light or dark background. This quilt is made from my Dazzle Dots 2 fabric, which is also available in my online shop in both precuts and yardage.
Already have fabric? Click here to purchase the pattern for Surplus Strips! A PDF version is also available!
And just in case you’d like to make something completely different from Dazzle Dots 2, here’s a little eye candy for you. The soft pastels are perfect for a spring-time quilt!
This week for 99 Machine Quilting Designs I’m showing how to free-motion quilt several loop variations. They are one of my go-to designs! Click below to watch:
These 3 designs all come from my book 99 Machine Quilting Designs. You can grab the instant PDF download of this book from my Etsy shop and follow along with each video that I’m sharing all year long!
After watching my video tutorials each week, I’m sure you’ll want to apply what you’ve learned on a real quilt. I’ve taken the basic loops I shared in this week’s tutorial and have modified it to include another design I recently shared – boxes – to create a fun and festive design that I quilted on my Fancy Gifts quilt!
How are you enjoying my year of machine quilting videos so far? Are you finding time to practice? I have another fun set of Walking Foot quilting designs for you to try – Shattered Lines and Wavy Shattered Lines. Take a look below:
Bonus Video – Quilting Shattered Lines on Bling
If you’d like to see how I quilted shattered lines on a “real” quilt, take a look at my bonus video below. I’m demonstrating on one of the versions of my Bling quilt pattern.
I love including quilting suggestions in all of my individual quilt patterns. You’ll never see the words “quilt as desired” from me, LOL!! Bling was such a fun quilt that I made it twice. Isn’t it fun to see how different fabrics, layout and quilting can affect the look of a quilt? Grab the pattern and get started making this quilt today!
This week for 99 Machine Quilting Designs we are learning to quilt Triangle Texture, a design that’s great for modern OR traditional quilts! Watch below and let me know what you think!
Get the Surplus Strips Quilt Pattern or Kit I recently combined 2 motifs – boxes and triangles on the gray version of my Surplus Strips quilt! You can now grab the kit to make this quilt with the gray or white background, or grab the pattern and choose your own colors. It’s fun to make and fun to quilt!Â
If you’d like to choose your own adventure, grab the Surplus Strips quilt pattern and then rummage through your stash for the perfect colors to make it your own. It’s the perfect design for using up leftover (surplus) precut strips!!
Below are 2 versions I made a few years ago and it looks great no matter what!
Wavy lines are literally one of the easiest designs you can quilt on your domestic machine. In fact, it’s my go-to motif when I’m in a hurry. For this week’s machine quilting tutorial, I’m sharing 2 fun variations to try. Grab a practice sample, and try this one out below:
That short and sweet video will get you started. Once you’ve finished your practice sample, I have 3 – Yes 3!! more videos you can watch, all showing how to quilt wavy lines on different full sized quilts. If you’d like to make a similar quilt, be sure to grab the patterns and supplies from my shop, or change things up and truly make it your own!
How to Quilt Wavy Lines on Churn Dash Slide
This is the quilt on the wall behind me in the video above. Click the links and image below and you can easily make this quilt from start to finish:
This is my newest free pattern, and you may already have it in your stash. If not, click the links below to snag it along with an optional kit in your choice of colors:
Watch the free companion video by clicking play below:
But Wait… There’s More!
If you aren’t quite yet tired of quilting wavy lines, try it on this fun jelly roll quilt called Puzzle Box. You know the drill, click below for bonus goodies to go along with the video tutorial:
By the way, there’s absolutely nothing wrong with finding a machine quilting design you love and quilting it on All.The.Quilts!!
In fact, when I first learned to Stipple, that’s all I did for a few years. Speaking of which, Stipple will be next week’s machine quilting video tutorial, so stay tuned!! Be sure to subscribe to my YouTube channel so you don’t miss a thing!
My Color Weave Quilt along kicks off Monday, Sept 16th and I’m doing something a little a little different this time around. I’ll be sharing everything via email rather than here on my blog. Lately I’ve been rethinking my social media strategy and looking at numbers. Because I get higher engagement via my direct newsletter, this will be an experiment to see if that format works best for a quilt along. Keep reading below to see how you can join in the fun….
Now, not to confuse things, but this is my blog post you are reading right now. You may get this delivered to you via email if you’ve signed up for that. But that’s a totally different system than my regular, weekly email newsletter. So if you aren’t sure if you are on that list, you can sign up here. This link will take you to my free patterns page which automatically signs you up for my emails. Got it??
Everyone already on my email list will automatically get the Quilt Along emails, and the best thing about it is that it’s free and you don’t even have to make the quilt! I will share tips and tricks for making the entire quilt from start to finish, including basting, machine quilting AND binding. These are techniques that will apply to any quilt you make. I really love empowering others to actually finish their quilts and reduce their UFO piles!
And while supplies last, I’ve put together kits made from precut strips of my Dazzle Dots fabric line. This includes the beautiful rainbow colors as well as both the light and dark grey strips. This is everything you’ll need for the quilt top – including the binding.
I’ve said many times that teaching machine quilting is my favorite thing that I do! Nothing beats the look of satisfaction on a student’s face when they realize that can indeed quilt their own quilts. That’s one of the reasons I’ve written so many quilting books. I use them as my textbooks in class, and they are great for “independent study” for those who can’t take a workshop from me in person.
My first book was published in 2015 and my latest volume came out nearly 2 years ago – can you believe it? I’ve worked with 2 publishers and purchased the rights to my first 4 books once the original publisher went out of business. Although 4 of my 5 books are now out of print, they are all still available as PDF downloads. Last year I put together a fun little video showcasing all of the projects from all of the books.
In case you missed it, click the image below to watch the video on my YouTube channel.
Now I know asking which book is my fave is asking me to pick a favorite child!! But I want to know which one (or more) of these has changed *your* quilting life?
Just for funsies, here’s a throwback pick of my now 20 year old daughter reading my first book when it came out. Although she’s not a quilter, she *is* an artist currently working on her BFA 🙂
Christa Quilts 