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Machine Quilting: Free-Motion & More

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Overview

You’ve spent hours making your quilt top, choosing fabrics, creating a design, piecing and embellishing it. Now learn how to machine quilt it yourself! Wendy shares strategies that will help you succeed, from layering the quilt and choosing threads to finding inspiration for machine-quilting designs. Your confidence will grow as you move from simple free-motion motifs to intricate thread arrangements. In this 10-lesson class you’ll learn how to assemble, bind and quilt your handmade designs. Your free-motion quilting will evolve as you build your skills, first with pencil and paper, then with thread and your sewing machine. Along the way, Wendy shares dozens of troubleshooting tips you can use in any quilting project.

Syllabus

  • Class Preview
  • Introduction
  • Preparing Your Quilts
  • Stabilizing the Quilt
  • Walking Foot Stitch Designs
  • Marking for Free-Motion Quilting
  • Simple Free-Motion Quilting
  • Complex Free-Motion Quilting
  • Thread Talk
  • Whole Cloth Quilting & Troubleshooting
  • Bindings & Finishing Touches

Taught by

Wendy Butler Berns

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