Meandering quilt patterns how to#
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The first thing you need to consider after you complete the quilt top is what kind of quilting are you going to do? Machine quilting? Hand quilting? Or even tying/tacking?

Meandering quilt patterns how to#

If you’re a beginner, how are you supposed to know what to quilt or how to quilt your quilt to finish it? On our Villa Rosa Designs Rose Cards, we take it a step further and say “Quilt and bind as desired.” Gee, that makes all the difference, doesn’t it? NOT!

But what does it really mean? It’s a designer’s way to say quilt your quilt any way you want to. If you’re new to quilting, you might have seen the phrase “quilt as desired” at the end of some of your quilt patterns. Needless to say, I look forward to the cooler fall months when I feel more productive in my studio and I get excited again about new projects. Yup, here’s my dungeon! LOL! Cue the creepy music, please! Second, my Sewing Dungeon, er….Studio, is not air conditioned, so for a couple of months out of each year, it’s hard to sew with sweat dripping down into my eyes and onto my projects. First, of course, it’s summer and I want to be busy doing other summer-y things and going places. I don’t know if you’re like me or not, but I tend to quilt less in the summer months. Here’s hoping we all have a productive autumn season - especially with our quilting.

Meandering quilt patterns free#

Feel free to re-blog, share with attribution to The Inbox Jaunt.Happy Thursday to you! Leaf Background Image by on Freepik 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!

“Stitch a wiggling, meandering line that doesn’t cross itself.”.

“Stippling is closely spaced, random quilting lines that do not cross and are gently curved.”.

I did a quick Google search of how to stipple and here are some of the descriptions and directions: Now, I know many of you like these stitches, and it’s nothing personal…it’s just that every beginner is told to “just stipple”… As I have mentioned many times, I want to Ban the Stipple quilting stitch and it’s larger cousin, the Meander stitch.