Free motion quilting borders

I am delighted to have Patsy Thompson as our December FMQ Expert, for the 2012 Free Motion Quilting Challenge. Whe...

While the designs in the center of your quilt often take center stage, your quilt borders deserve some love, too! Here are five of our most popular border design tutorials for you to try.

Arches are such a common element in free motion quilting. Sometimes we even do not realize that we quilt an arch. And they are in arches, flowers, crescents,...

Learn how to quilt the sweet flower flip flop border in this video tutorial from Angela Huffman and APQS longarm quilting machines.

I wanted to pass along an easy way to quilt a rope cable border without any backtracking! This is the rope cable stencil from my Ultimate Borders collection. Generally when you quilt this design there is double stitching on every other hump of the cable in order to keep it continuous. Here's a different solution...

So I have shared with you the overall quilt, the quilting on the pink logs and border. As well as the 12 of the 15 quilting fill patterns. Now do you want to know what I did in the red logs? It was…

Discover inspiring free motion quilt designs! Explore tutorials, tips, and ideas to enhance your quilting skills and creativity.

Add a little sunshine to your next quilt project with this simple free motion tutorial that's great for machine quilters. This Daisy Chain Free Motion Tutorial is a simple way to add some beautiful summery details to your next quilt, and comes with step-by-step images for creating your chain of daisies. This free motion tutorial is a great way to learn machine quilting basics, and is the perfect project for building your free motion skills. A charming decoration to any quilt top or border…

Petit Design Co has done a 31 day series on quilting with a walking foot.........think it is just straight lines? NOPE - she includes curv...