machine quilting

Quilting a small one.......... from Exuberant Color

This flannel quilt has been ready for quilting for a couple weeks so I finally quilted it yesterday. It will get trimmed today or tomorrow and then I'll look for binding.

I pressed the stratas yesterday and sliced off the segments for 8 blocks, 2 of each combination. They aren't pressed so they can't go up on the design wall yet. I have 72 blocks made now. That would give me an 8 x 9 layout but that is too close to square. I would rather have 7 x 11 or 8 x 10. I could still ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 3 months, 4 weeks ago. under flannel quilts , machine quilting , marcia derse fabric , nature , strip piecing

99 Designs Episode 26: FMQ Spiral Flowers & Wavy Spirals from Christa Quilts

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 ...

added by Christa 4 months ago. under christa's quilts , fabric , machine quilting (Comments)

Color Play – Joen Wolfrom from Terificreations's Weblog

Let’s Begin Do you know how you know something in your life is missing and you can’t quite put your finger on it and then when you discover what it is and then you discover why it is then what you needed is right there and WOW!!!Color Play is it! (Links are affiliate) And then… Continue reading Color Play – Joen Wolfrom

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99 Designs Episode 25: Free-Motion Swirls from Christa Quilts

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 ...

added by Christa 4 months, 1 week ago. under christa's quilts , machine quilting (Comments)

99 Designs Episode 24 – Walking Foot Spirals from Christa Quilts

For this week’s episode of 99 Machine Quilting Designs I’m showing how to use your walking foot or dual fee to quilt two spiral spiral variations: continuous Round Spirals and Overlapping Spirals. Watch the full video on my YouTube channel below:

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While supplies last, I still have Sparkling Stars kits made from Stitchy and Optical Illusion kits in black and white. I quilted wavy spirals on Sparkling Stars and Overlapping Spirals on Optical Illusion. I think this was the perfect design for both of these quilts! You’ll use the same technique that I show ...

added by Christa 4 months, 2 weeks ago. under christa's quilts , fabric , machine quilting (Comments)

Teeny tiny.......................... from Exuberant Color

I pieced the squares into this little top a couple years ago. This heat saps my energy so all I was able to get done was layering and quilting this. I will finish the edge soon.

I had this piece laying with the top so I guess it was meant to be the back.

A couple days ago I took this photo of the Creeping Bellflowers. They are getting closer to the time to be pulled out. These are actually in the grass along the edge of the flower garden.

I watered my tomato plants and then tackled one area ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 4 months, 2 weeks ago. under kaffe fabric , machine quilting , nature

99 Designs Episode 23 – FMQ Ribbon Loops & Harlequin from Christa Quilts

When practicing your free-motion quilting, I recommend trying a variety of curvy and geometric designs. You may decide you like one style over another! In this week’s episode of 99 Machine Quilting Designs you can practice both techniques when you stitch up Ribbon Loops or Harlequin! Click play below to watch:

Bonus Video – Quilting Ticker Tape

My Ticker Tape quilt shown behind me in the video, is quilted using single ribbon loops. I love making the same quilt multiple times to try out different fabric combinations and quilting plans. Check out my bonus video below, showing I quilted Ticker ...

added by Christa 4 months, 3 weeks ago. under christa's quilts , fabric , machine quilting (Comments)

Quilting a small one.................... from Exuberant Color

This baby quilt is only 36" x 45" so it didn't take long to ditch quilt it in both directions yesterday. There is a lot of variety in the Kaffe collective prints for this one, small scale and large scale, very light pastel, and bold pastels. There is a variety of greens and turquoises in the little triangle corners too. I'll trim it today and choose a binding.

The tall Ox-eye or False Sunflower is blooming in the back garden now. They are at least 4' tall. There are purple Coneflowers back in that area too that will ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 4 months, 3 weeks ago. under machine quilting , nature

99 Designs Episode 22 – Free Motion Quilting Clouds from Christa Quilts

Are you keeping up withy my 99 Machine Quilting Designs Series? If so, what are some of your favorite designs so far? I have another fun one for you to try this week. Click the image below to watch me quilt a fun, whimsical design called “Clouds.”

Practice quilting this design (and many more) on my Swanky Spirals quilt pattern!

Bonus Video – How I Quilted Swanky Spirals

If you’d like more ideas for making and quilting this ...

added by Christa 4 months, 3 weeks ago. under christa's quilts , machine quilting (Comments)

Quilting and nature..................... from Exuberant Color

I have continued quilting on this baby quilt and am almost finished. It is all ditch quilting and I just need to put a few more stitches in the background. I hope to get it trimmed today and choose a binding fabric.

I went out early yesterday morning and watered everything and cut some volunteer tree/bushes that have been bothering me.

These are the Creeping Bellflower spires. All of these are in the grass line along the edge of my back flowerbed. It will be a mass of purplish blue flowers for a couple weeks and then they will ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 4 months, 3 weeks ago. under machine quilting , nature

Hot, hot, hot............................ from Exuberant Color

I know most of the US is under this heat dome and it isn't fun. It's the humidity that is the worst part.

I spent most of the day working slowly, some quilting, some knitting, a little organizing in the basement. One good thing happened; I found my missing Kaffe Quilts in Italy book which has been missing for several months. I sewed 2 pieces of batting together with the triple zig zag for a piece 48" x 58". I will check and see if that works for any of the small tops waiting in line. If not ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 4 months, 4 weeks ago. under batiks , knitting , machine quilting

AQS Quilt Week Registration Now Open! from Christa Quilts

I’m super excited to be heading to Lancaster, PA for the American Quilters Society show this fall to teach a full load of machine quilting workshops. I’ve taught for AQS before, but this will be my fist time visiting this location. I will also be one of the quilt judges which makes the event even extra special!

I will be teaching the following workshops as listed below. Machines will be generously provided by BERNINA for all workshops, and they will be based on my best-selling machine quilting books.

Click here to register for my workshops now, before they ...

added by Christa 5 months ago. under christa's quilts , machine quilting (Comments)

99 Designs Episode 21 – Walking Foot Quilting Diagonal Crosshatch from Christa Quilts

We are back to walking foot quilting with another fun machine quilting video tutorial for you to watch. Check out Diagonal Crosshatch and Irregular Crosshatch. Click the image below to watch and let me know which design you prefer!

Click here to watch the complete 99 Machine Quilting Designs Video Series for free!!

Have You Checked out My Latest Kits?

It’s one thing to practice your designs on small samples, but you really get the hang of things when quilting them on a real, full sized quilt. I’ve been having fun putting together all sorts of fun kits ...

added by Christa 5 months ago. under christa's quilts , fabric , machine quilting (Comments)

No more markers...................... from Exuberant Color

Do you see any safety pins marking centers not quilted? No, I don't either. I finished all of the quilting yesterday. Now I need to trim it and hopefully the piece of fabric for the hanging sleeve is still where I think it is. Right now I'm thinking some shade of green might work for the binding. That would go well with the backing fabric too.

I found 2 more small Peony blooms while roaming through the backyard garden. I didn't remember that I had a white one over by the southwest corner.

I'm seeing buds ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 5 months ago. under batik , cobblestone series , machine quilting , nature

A little progress................. from Exuberant Color

A friend came over yesterday and we planned a quilt that we have both made before, both of us have gifted the quilts, and we both want another that we can keep. We had Subway sandwiches for lunch and had a lot of fun.

I got 8 more centers quilted after I wrote yesterday's post and then got 10 more quilted last night.

I'm just adding 3 closeups of some blocks in the quilt because there isn't much else to show.

Now I have more than half of the centers quilted, 86 done, 76 to go.

I ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 5 months, 1 week ago. under batik , cobblestone series , machine quilting , nature

Quilting and digging in dirt................. from Exuberant Color

I was spending a lot of time looking for the centers of blocks that needed to be quilted around. I decided to mark all of the unquilted ones with a safety pin, all 94 of them. Then I counted how many I have quilted around and there were 68. I'm not even half done; I'm disappointed by that for sure. Those numbers were after I quilted around 8 centers last night.

When I dug up the largest of the volunteer tomato plants yesterday, I found out it was 4 plants growing very close together. I also dug up ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 5 months, 1 week ago. under cobblestone series , machine quilting , nature

A little quilting................... from Exuberant Color

I'm back to quilting my Crooked Cobblestone wall hanging. I'm ditch quilting around every center of every block. At the lower edge I'm ready to quilt 9 light color centers, quilting one and then dragging the thread over to the next, etc. Then I will trim all of the connecting threads when I'm done with that area. I'm using the backstitch feature on the machine and Invisifil thread so the tie off is almost invisible.

There are 3 tomatoes on this one plant and I got them all into one photo. The sun shining on ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 5 months, 1 week ago. under machine quilting , nature

99 Designs Episodes 19 & 20 – Free Motion Quilting Wavy Lines from Christa Quilts

Have you been watching my free series of domestic machine quilting videos? New episodes drop each week and you can watch them anytime, on your own schedule for FREE! This week I have 2 for you to catch up on. First of all, learn how to quilt fun free-motion wavy lines. They are fast and easy to stitch! Check it out below:

If you want to take your quilting up a notch, stitch this design in both directions and it becomes an interesting, organic wavy grid! You can stitch this as an edge to edge design, or in smaller areas ...

added by Christa 5 months, 1 week ago. under christa's quilts , fabric , machine quilting (Comments)

Ditch quilting................... from Exuberant Color

I'm still cleaning and organizing so by evening I was ready to do some sewing. I ditch quilted around the border and around the dark shapes on this one.

I used matching beige thread both top and bottom.

While cleaning off table tops I found this one that had its backing and batting with it so it got quilted too. I just ditch quilted both sides of the black strips in each block. This one is a small placemat size.

I used black thread on top and orange thread in the bobbin. I'll get both of these trimmed ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 5 months, 2 weeks ago. under machine quilting , tablerunner

There’s a Whole Lot of Teaching Going on!! from Christa Quilts

My goodness summer is already flying by! I’ve had a banner year of teaching domestic machine quilting so far in 2025 and I plan to continue a robust travel schedule into 2026 and beyond. So with that said, here are highlights of the big events coming up this fall and next spring. Be sure to click the links below each event to register or get more details. They sell out quickly!

American Quilters Society – Lancaster, PA Sept 10-13, 2025

Registration is open for members of AQS, with a discount on all workshops! General registration opens to the public June ...

added by Christa 5 months, 2 weeks ago. under christa's quilts , machine quilting (Comments)

What Are Quilters Blogging About Today?

Quilt These Designs on Surplus Strips!

Get the Kits!

Bonus Video – Quilting Ticker Tape

Practice quilting this design (and many more) on my Swanky Spirals quilt pattern!

Bonus Video – How I Quilted Swanky Spirals

Have You Checked out My Latest Kits?

American Quilters Society – Lancaster, PA Sept 10-13, 2025