25 Week Quilt-a-Long and more
Welcome to the Better Machine Quilt-a-long based on my book 25 Days to Better Machine Quilting.(Find all of the previous Lessons HERE. Sign up for emails of the class HERE.) Today’s Topic: Paper, Electronic and Other Doodle Options Good Morning, Quilters! This week is dedicated to a very important topic–doodling! (I bet your grammar school…
Doodles
Good Morning, Quilters and Doodlers! Today we are going to doodle simple clover leaves to add to The White Clover motif we learned this week. I LOVE everything about white clover. They remind me of summer days and I adore the sweet, fresh scent. Apparently–YOU love White Clover too! This pretty posy received thousands of…
Doodles and more
Good Morning, Quilters and Doodlers! Today we are going to learn how to doodle tapered scallops. Doodling is a great way to improve your free motion quilting skill. In our series, Better Quilting Through Doodling, we are going to learn the basic building blocks of many quilt motifs. Doodling helps develop both muscle memory and…
Doodles and more
Good Morning, Quilters and Doodlers! Today we are going to learn how to create a doodle envelope! As you have heard me say hundreds of times–the fastest way to improve your quilting is to doodle! When you doodle on an envelope you will need to doodle around shapes–just like you do when machine quilting. Perfect…
Design and more
Good Morning, Quilters! Today I have a little challenge for you. Try arranging your doodles in a composition. Choose three motifs. I chose The Snowman, The Pretty Package (both from More Free Motion Machine Quilting 1-2-3, pages 45 and 111) and a simple tree. (There are four Easy Trees in my first book, but not…
Doodles
Good Morning, Quilters and Morel Lovers! Yesterday we worked on a basic motif–A Mushroom for Rose. The key to smooth quilting is to doodle the motif many, many times. The repetition creates the muscle memory required for smooth quilting, but it does much more… It helps you create variations, and variety is what turns a…
Doodles
Good Morning, Doodlers and Quilters! Last week, we used a grid and a simple doodle to create complex-looking quilt designs. Read – Easy Doodles for Those Who Think They Can’t After seeing the post, my friend, Deborah Johnson called me with this great tip: Many wrapping papers come with a one inch grid on…
Doodles and more
Good Morning, Quilters and Doodlers! Do YOU find doodling challenging? Do YOU have difficulty thinking of what to doodle? The solution: Start with a grid! Start with a grid and repeat any simple design to create very complex looking designs. For this exercise, I used a ruler to draw a one-inch grid. (If you…
Doodles
Good Morning, Quilters! Wasn’t it fun to see Jana’s amazing quilting on her treadle sewing machine!? Thank you to all of those who wrote in about another treadle quilter, Tim Latimer of TimQuilts.com. His quilts are also beautiful! I know many of you have treadle machines–it might be a fun thing to try in…
Doodles and more
Good Morning, Quilters! I’m soooo far behind! After our trip to Chicago, I used all my creative energy (and physical energy) decorating the house for Christmas. My husband and I are crazy about Christmas. We have an entire storage room dedicated to lights, wreaths, candles, ornaments, linens, art work, vases………..That’s a lot of trips up and…
