This will give your quilt an all-over texture and, at a larger scale, is a great way to finish a quilt quick.Īnother alternative is to use it in smaller quantities between larger features of a custom quilting design. You can use this meander quilting method as an all over quilting design that runs directly over the quilt top disregarding the piecing. They generally don’t have a direction they flow in, but can expand in any direction needed. The designs are made to be more improvisational and travel in any direction, so the idea is to repeat the design in every direction until you’ve filled in all the free space in that area. What is a meander?Ī meander is a simple design that repeats itself, or builds off itself, within a certain area of your quilt until it fills the entire space in. To practice the basic skills that are universal to many different FMQ designs, today we’re looking at a list of simple quilting meander practice exercises that break down each of these concepts and help improve your free motion quilting, one practice swatch at a time. Not having to be worried about whether you put a corner in a place where it doesn’t belong, or whether you DIDN’T put a corner where you actually intended is one of those things you can muscle memory out so you have less things to think about when you actually have a real quilt under the needle. The best way to push past this stage of learning FMQ is to practice until you can put certain things on autopilot. If you’re like me when I first started, you may find yourself frustrated with having to keep track of so many things that you get overwhelmed with the process and ultimately scrap the FMQ idea. There’s a fine line between needing to pay more attention to what you’re doing, and paying so much attention to every stitch that you are overthinking it. ![]() I may receive commission for any purchases made through the links in this post.įree motion quilting can be a pain to learn. ![]() Feel free to re-blog, share with attribution to The Inbox Jaunt.This post may contain affiliate links. PS…All tutorials, images and information are the property of Lori Kennedy at The Inbox Jaunt and is intended for personal use only. So if you’re one of the many people who has trouble with Stippling or Meandering…you are NORMAL! Just move on… there are so many choices… Whereas instructions like: Stitch amoebas, don’t cross over, wiggle…are much more difficult to follow. Stitch a half circle…we can all follow these directions….(especially when there’s a photo to go with it!) Instructions like: Start on the bottom line, stitch straight up. Here’s the reason: Our brain works fastest when we tell it what we SHOULD DO, not when we tell it what NOT to do… Whenever one of the little Tykes started running on the wet pavement (very dangerous)-the life guards were instructed to shout “WALK!”… They didn’t shout “DON’T RUN!”… When my daughters were in high school, they were all life guards at our local swimming pool. Stick with me a minute…while I share a story… REALLY? No wonder so many beginners get frustrated and quit Free Motion Quilting!
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