Free Motion Quilting – RC Hearts variation from I Patch and Quilt

How many hearts would you like on your quilt?

Double up on your hearts-quota with this weeks design which would work really well on any Valentine’s Day quilt.

If your border or sashing in your quilt is a bit higher, you have enough space to add an extra heart inside of your Ribbon Candy Hearts. Your design will spread out bit more because the design needs to be wider for the extra hearts to have enough room. The lines might not touch each other anymore. Try to keep an equal distance to your previous line by looking at the ...

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Free Motion Quilting – Ribbon Candy Hearts from I Patch and Quilt

The last email to the students of the Ribbon Candy workshop has just been sent out. The workshop has now closed. The online class was a huge success with more than 500 students participating. We had 4 days of short lessons on the free motion design Ribbon Candy. Lots of people left comments and shared photos of their practice pieces, especially on the lesson with the design variations.

This weeks free motion quilting design Ribbon Candy Hearts was part of the online lesson on variations. If you were in the class, you may recognize the video.

Ribbon Candy Hearts is ...

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Project Quilting 15.2 - Sky Colour, Challenge 2 from Quilting & Learning

Hi and welcome to my second challenge of Project Quilting (PQ), Season 15. The theme this week is sky colour - "take inspiration from the colours of the sky, but exclude or use less than 10% of the usual blue" (cerulean). Thanks Trish for this great prompt and Kim for hosting!

A landscape and sky for my agenda cover

For the last few years, one of the first projects that I've made in January is a new agenda cover. They've had many interesting, colourful fabrics that are usually hand-dyed. This year I combined my agenda cover with the PQ ...

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Free Motion Quilting – Wishbone Hearts Dance from I Patch and Quilt

This design is a bit of a challenge!

The Wishbone variation Hearts Dance adds a bounce after each second teardrop / loop. This creates a row of dancing hearts. This design is more challenging because you have to ‘count and bounce’ and also because you have to keep the design upright.

This patterns is stitched out pretty narrow in this sample, but in the narrow red sample below, you can see that it looks gorgeous too in a less high border.

The teardrops don’t really have to touch to form a heart, you can space them wider apart.

Play around ...

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Free Motion Quilting – Clamshell Heart from I Patch and Quilt

Before we delve into the Clamshell Heart design, I wanted to let you know that the doors of the Ribbon Candy Workshop are closing soon. The first lesson will be released on this next Monday 22 January and the last lesson will be on Thursday 25 January 2024.

This course is free to attend, it won’t cost you anything!

Anyone who can free motion quilt is welcome! Even those who want to learn but haven’t started yet can draw along. I will teach you some basics of the Ribbon Candy design, a few variations and 3 ways to ...

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Project Quilting 15.1 - Bird House Challenge 1 from Quilting & Learning

Hi and welcome! I did it! I've finished the first challenge of Project Quilting (PQ) season 15. I "discovered" PQ at the end of their 10th season, in March, 2019. Each year I've done as many of the challenges as I could. In fact, my first challenge was done within 16 hours!

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January 17, 2024

Free Motion Quilting – Ribbon Candy Hairpin from I Patch and Quilt

When does a fascination become a specialization?

Two years ago I started adding to my collection of Ribbon Candy variations. Coming up with new versions of the traditional design quickly became my favorite ‘puzzle’ to do. The fascination expanded to the other sashing classic, the Wishbone design. I have shared a few of the variations on these two traditional designs over the last couple of months.

Last week I shared the Swirl Point design which has gotten a lot of attention on Instagram since then. The sped up video was viewed over 31.000 times, which is magical and unbelievable ...

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January 14, 2024

Working on Project Quilting 15.1 at Free Motion Mavericks from Quilting & Learning

Welcome to week 564 of Free Motion Mavericks. In the last few days, we've had cold and wind, snow, then snow pellets followed by freezing rain. Tomorrow it's going to be cold (it's all relative!) and sunny. It's January and winter in Ottawa.

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January 11, 2024

Free Motion Quilting – Orange peel Heart from I Patch and Quilt

Let’s add some hearts to our classic quilting designs!

I have selected several classic free motion quilting designs and I each week I will share a variation of that design where hearts are ‘onboarded’. So when Valentine’s day approaches you will have a set of patterns to choose from. Put that quilt together for your special person.

This hot pink Orange Peel Heart sample is stitched out on a 1″ grid that I premarked using a template and ‘iron off’ pounce powder. I love the fact that you can iron the chalk off and that it doesn’t ...

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January 8, 2024

FMQ Feather Flower from I Patch and Quilt

Are you looking for an elegant free motion edge to edge design for your quilt project? Try Feather Flower!

The gorgeous Feather flower design moves in every direction and starts with a shape that you may have tried before: the feather with a pearl. I used this shape a couple of weeks ago in ‘Bubble Wave’.

After the feather with pearl, you stitch two more feathers and add a final leaf shape that can fill any area that needs to be filled. The leaf can go on either side of your stitched ‘branch’.

It looks really well on this red ...

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January 5, 2024

FMQ Ribbon Candy – Swirl Point from I Patch and Quilt

A new tutorial, ohhh what a great way to start off 2024!

The Swirl Point design is a variation on the classic Ribbon Candy design. Let’s look at the basic Ribbon Candy first.

The pattern moves up and down with slightly angled lines that curve at the top and bottom. This creates teardrop shapes.

The design variation Swirl Point uses the space inside of the teardrops and fills it with a pointy curl. An s-curve starts off the design. Then a curl is added. The line then moves towards the centre the fabric strip, there it bounces back down ...

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December 30, 2023

Best of 2023 Linking Party from Quilting & Learning

I'm so glad that Cheryl of Meadow Mist is hosting this great party again. I looked at my posts, and I've been participating since 2016. Not bad since it looks like I only missed her first year. Thanks Cheryl

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December 27, 2023

T-shirt Quilt Finish on Free Motion Mavericks from Quilting & Learning

Welcome to week 461 of Free Motion Mavericks. I delivered the quilt to my nephew last night at 10:30 so that he could pack it up to bring to Denmark. He lives down the street so it wasn't a long journey. He and his roommate are tall men, so they helped me take a few quick pictures of the quilt. Thanks guys!

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December 17, 2023

Back to FMQ the T-shirt Quilt on Free Motion Mavericks from Quilting & Learning

Welcome to week 460 of Free Motion Mavericks. I have been able to do free motion quilting (FMQ) this week. It felt good to be back home and at my Jag (my sewing machine)

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December 14, 2023

FMQ Heart from I Patch and Quilt

There are a lot of different ways to add feathers to a heart. I like to add lots of feathers on the inside and outside. Scrumptious, over the top and preferably in all kinds of shapes and sizes.

Adding feathers to a curved shape can be a bit challenging even for the best of us. Stacking feathers and curving them around each other is a skill that grows with practice. But besides growing your skillset, a few tips and guidelines will take most stress away. To help you on your way, I have created a handout for you that details ...

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December 7, 2023

Free Motion Quilting – Holly from I Patch and Quilt

Oh I love this design! Instant Christmas feeling!

Are you looking for a new free motion quilting idea for a Christmas quilt? Apply this Holly design to a border or use it as an all-over.

These holly leaves are based on a square grid that is easily marked. Perhaps your quilt already has a grid because of the piecing.

Each holly leaf fits within a square. If you want to be more precise than that and aim for equally sized leaves, you could mark orange peels within the squares and stitch within those shapes.

If you look really closely you ...

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December 2, 2023

T-shirt Quilt FMQ on Free Motion Mavericks from Quilting & Learning

Hi and welcome to week 457 of Free Motion Mavericks. I'm still travelling so it will be a short post. Before I left, I finished FMQ (free motion quilting) a few of the t-shirt blocks on the quilt.

A Few More Blocks

I finished these three blocks.

FMQ both the sashing and the t-shirts

FMQ feathers in the sashing and loops on the sweatshirt

I FMQ the sashing on the next t-shirts. I'll have to change my thread and quilt the t-shirts next. For these two t-shirts, I quilted stars in the sashing. I'll be FMQ something ...

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November 30, 2023

Free Motion Quilting – Bubble Wave from I Patch and Quilt

The sound of crashing waves, the salty air, the gentle wind blowing the ruffles of our beach umbrella… It is one of my fondest memories of spending time with my loved ones at the beach.

The movement of the waves has a real calming effect on me. I don’t even have to be at the beach, just looking at videos of the sea will do that for me. I am always thankful when people post beach videos on social media. It takes me back to that wonderful memories even if it is just for a few minutes.

Do you ...

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November 26, 2023

Updates on Free Motion Mavericks from Quilting & Learning

Welcome to week 456 of Free Motion Mavericks. I've had to do some travelling and haven't done much in my studio, or even in the car. Good news though, the snow is gone and the temperature is a little higher. I hope you're having a good autumn

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November 25, 2023

Free Motion Quilting – Swirl Hook from I Patch and Quilt

This is how you create fabulous texture!

I don’t even know how many times I have used this Swirl Hook pattern, I have lost count. Baby quilts, charity quilts, bag components, pillows. It looks good on all of these projects. I think I saw this pattern first in a tutorial by Angela Walters and I thought it was the best ever! It felt like a more advanced pattern, and it is, but once you are aware of its structure it becomes way easier.

The design starts with a smallish curl / spiral. From the centre of that spiral you move ...

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