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Are you still watching and practicing your domestic machine quilting? This week I’m excited to share one of my favorite designs of the series! Walking Foot Square Spirals are fun, fast & forgiving to stitch – check it out by clicking play below:

Quilt These Designs on Bling!

I quilted the wavy spiral maze variation on my Bling quilt along with regular round spirals. I also made a video to go along with it showing you how I did it. Grab the pattern and then watch the bonus video below!

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In this week’s episode of 99 Machine Quilting Designs, practice free motion quilting more “shapes on a stick” like Balloon Shapes and Shish Kebabs. Click below to watch and learn:

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Quilt These Designs on Block Chain

I made this quilt before I started making video tutorials, but it’s a great one to practice these designs! The Block Chain quilt pattern includes a quilting plan showing you how and it’s perfect for your favorite charm packs!

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In my latest episode of 99 Machine Quilting Designs, practice more geometric shapes on a stick with Hearts and Triangles. Watch and learn below:

Quilt This Design on a Real Quilt!

Block Chain is the name of the quilt behind me shown in the video tutorial above. The pattern includes 4 sizes + detailed machine quilting suggestions. After all, I want you to actually finish your quilts, so you’ll never see “quilt as desired” in any of my pattern instructions! 

• Click here to get my Block Chain quilt pattern – PDF download
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How are your Beaded Lanterns quilt blocks coming along? It’s time to sew them together to create the quilt top! If you are just now finding the quilt along, be sure to grab the Beaded Lanterns free quilt pattern to join the fun!

• Click here to grab the Beaded Lanters Quilt pattern – it’s free!
• Click here to grab Beaded Lanterns Kits – while supplies last.

To start things off, I like to lay out my blocks on a design wall. Then I’ll spend time arranging them into a pleasing order. I usually take a picture with my camera ...

In this week’s episode of 99 Machine Quilting Designs learn to quilt 3 versions of Geometric Chains, or what I lovingly refer to as “Shapes on a Stick.” Click play below to watch:

The featured quilt on the wall behind me is called Plumb Lines and the pattern can be found in my book with Angela Walters called, the Ultimate Guide to Machine Quilting. I was so pleased when I entered it into a machine quilting show and it won a ribbon!

Click here to get the PDF download of our book, The Ultimate Guide to Machine Quilting.

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This week it’s time to sew all of our cut units from last week into our Lanterns blocks!

Sewing the Beaded Lanterns Blocks

Read through the free quilt pattern for instructions on sewing everything together. To keep the blocks nice and straight I sewed with the light background fabric on top each time. I also sewed with a shorter stitch length (2.0) to strengthen the seams and then pressed them open for incredibly flat blocks.

I like to chain sew or assembly line stitch which means slipping each pair of units to sew under the machine and sewing ...

Watch 99 Designs Episode 30 – Square Spiral

In this week’s episode of 99 Machine Quilting Designs, learn to quilt this geometric walking foot design easily on your domestic machine! Click the image below to watch:

Get the Pattern to Make S.W.A.K. from my Book

The quilt shown behind me is called Sealed With a Kiss from my book, Piece and Quilt with Precuts. The printed version is sold out, but you can grab the PDF download below!

Catch Up on All the Previous Episodes

There will be over 55 videos in all, once this series is ...

This week it’s time to cut into your yummy fabrics as we begin to make Beaded Lanterns. If you haven’t done so yet, be sure to download my free Beaded Lanterns Quilt pattern to follow along. Now, let’s get started!

• Click here to grab my Free Beaded Lanterns quilt pattern.
• Click here to grab the Beaded Lanterns Quilt Kit (while supplies last).

Cutting Beaded Lanterns Fabrics

You’ll need a total of 36 precut strips from a standard sized strip roll. Using my Dazzle Dots 2 roll shown above, I took out 2 strips of the ice ...

I’m excited to share my step-by-step process for quilting my latest iteration of Bling. This is one of my favorite patterns I’ve made over the years. Whenever I get a new idea for a fun colorscheme or quilting plan, I can’t help remaking some of my most popular patterns! Click below to watch and let me know what you think!

Get the Bling Quilt Pattern

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You can choose a similar color story and layout ...

Thanks to everyone who chimed in and let me know which quilt you wanted to make next! I’m excited to make Beaded Lanterns right along with you, from start to finish! Read below for details…

Click here to get the Free Beaded Lanterns Quilt Pattern
Click here to get the optional Beaded Lanterns Kit (while supplies last)

Beaded Lanterns Quilt Along Schedule

• Week 1 – Cutting
• Week 2 – Making the Blocks
• Week 3 – Quilt Top Assembly
• Week 4 – Catch up & Basting
• Week 5 – Quilting and Finishing

Each week I will guide you through one part of making the quilt. I ...

In this week’s episode of 99 Machine Quilting Designs you can learn how to free-motion quilt 2 closely related designs called Scrollwork and Echoed Curls. Watch below:

Get the Swanky Spirals Pattern

The quilt shown behind me in the video is my Swanky Spirals pattern featuring Dazzle Dots. It’s my machine quilting sampler that includes nearly every FMQ design I can think of!

• Click here to get the Swanky Spirals Quilt Pattern
• Click here to get the Dazzle Dots FQ Bundle to Make It

Bonus Video – Quilting Swanky Spirals

In each of these videos, I like to share ...

I absolutely love making pieced backings for my quilts. It’s a great way to use up leftovers, and I love how it makes the quilt double sided! So this week I’ll share the fun backing I made for Bling, as well as my spray basting process, too!

Click here to get my Bling Quilt Pattern PDF
Click here to get the Bling Quilt Kit or Printed Pattern

Puzzle Piece the Backing

Whenever I have leftovers, I start by grouping them into similar sizes. Then I randomly sew the same sized units together to make bigger pieced panels. Below ...

For this week’s 99 Machine Quilting Designs video, tutorial, I’m demonstrating how to quilt one of my favorite free-motion designs called Switchbacks. It looks great when paired with other motifs. Click play below to watch:

Bonus Video – Quilting Switchbacks on a Real Quilt

I quilted switchbacks, combined with other motifs on the smaller version of my Charming Chevrons quilt. I quilted a second quilting plan on the larger version, and you can see how I quilted both below:

• Click here to get the Charming Chevrons quilt pattern
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How are you doing with this quilt along thus far? Just remember, you can make this quilt at your own pace, and on your own schedule! This week we are assembling our quilt top. For my Dazzle Dots version of Bling, I rotated the individual blocks so that each set of 4 formed a larger hashtag block. Then I sewed the larger block units into rows, and then joined the rows to complete the top.

Click here to get the Bling quilt kit – Dazzle Dots version
Click here to get the Bling quilt kit – Stitchy version

In the Bling quilt ...

For this week’s episode of 99 Machine Quilting Designs learn to quilt one of my favorite walking foot quilting designs: Continuous Wavy Spiral. Watch the full video by clicking play below:

Get the Sparkling Stars Quilt Kit

While supplies last, I still have a few Sparkling Stars kits made from Stitchy fabric. Grab one now and start practicing your wavy spirals!

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Bonus Video: How to Quilt Wavy Spiral on Sparkling Stars:

I made this video in response to everyone saying, “sure I can quilt that on a small sample, but it must ...

I named this pattern “Bling” because the main part of the design is an abstract representation of a sparkly ring. Can you see it?? Last week we cut out our fabrics and this week it’s time to sew them together to make Bling blocks! I like to lay out all of my pieces stacked up in order next to my sewing machine.

I’m making the scrappy background version, so as long as there’s good contrast between my lights and darks, these are going to look great! You can also use all of one background fabric for a ...

I’m back with more fun free motion designs for you to try! Whenever I teach in person, I emphasize the importance of sketching out your design, quilting it on a practice sample, then making a quilting plan to quilt an entire quilt. Watch my latest tutorial below, and then give it a go!

Quilt These Designs on Surplus Strips!

Now, I invite you to try quilting these designs on a real, full sized quilt. I Stitched out the Spiral flowers on the soft, pastel version of Surplus Strips, and a secondary design on the gray version. While supplies last ...

The fastest way to finish a quilt is to assembly line all of the steps. That means I like to cut out all of the pieces first, then sew as much as I can until I need to stop and press. I test out of all of my patterns by following my own directions while making the quilt, and I tend to make my quilts several times so you can rest assured the instructions will be correct.

So this week it’s time to dive in and cut into your luscious fabrics to make *your* version of Bling! Depending on ...

For this week’s episode of 99 Machine Quilting Designs learn my basic free-motion swirl motif, then see how I can easily change it up to create several different variations. Click play below to watch:

With every episode I like to include bonus tips and tricks for quilting these designs on a real, full sized quilt. And I like to share a different quilt for my backdrop each time. This week I’m talking about Terrace Tiles which is literally one of the fastest and easiest quilts you can make. In fact, I love it so much I’ve made ...

Who’s excited to join me for the Bling quilt along which begins next week? All you need is a copy of the Bling quilt pattern to follow along, and each week’s assignment will be posted right here on the blog. But just remember, you can totally quilt along at your own pace!

Click here to get the optional Bling quilt kit – made from Dazzle Dots!

I will be making this version of Bling from my Dazzle Dots 1 and 2 fabrics. I love how the softer pastels in the background make the more saturated colors pop!

I also ...