Curved crosshatching quilting

During my lectures and workshops, I've had several people ask me how I accomplished curved crosshatching. You can't imagine how very simple it really is. Get ya an arched template and curve away. Right? Right! So, to show you how easy peasy it is, I'm posting pictures of Linda's gorgeous Borders quilt where I did a curved crosshatch in the cream border, and showing you step-by-step how I did this. Linda LaBrot's beautiful Borders Quilt. Pattern is from Winnie Fleming's Borders Class I first…

Not going to lie, I am little sad that Stitch Pink is over. Alas, I have a gazillion projects that I should be finishing. I just need to look at them like a stitch along and finish one each month...or until a new project catches my eye. :-) Sound familiar? Oh, and before I forget I have something very exciting in the works, a new website and blog!!! Yay!! I have been wanting to do this for quite some time and it looks like it will be a reality very soon. I will keep you all posted as I do…

Early, early Wednesday morning, I'll be boarding a plane for Brigham City, UT, to spend time with lots of wonderful quilters while giving a lecture and three workshops for the Village Dry Goods quilt shop. This is one of my most favorite things to do...I love it. The quilt above is a new design called Settler's Puzzle, and I'll be teaching it for the first time. I love this quilt and it seems to be very popular with all of you as well. I'll be teaching this quilt in workshops all this year…

Bethanne Nemesh | Freemotion Machine Quilting Teacher on Instagram: "Clamshell quilting can be done with a ruler aid, or freehand. I find freehand only fun if the grid of the clamshell is 1” or smaller. Since one edge of my lavender lines ruler has a 1” half circle cutout just for this purpose, I used it in a recent quilt sample. I love it, since there isn’t any marking necessary beyond a base line. Stencils are also a great way to mark a clamshell for quilting. In all these cases…

Experiment with ‘wavy’ rulers to add movement, dimension to quilts...

This year’s Modern Quilt Guild / Riley Blake fabric challenge was one of the best challenges I have ever participated in, and I am very excited about the resulting quilt! The print that was s…

This week we continue Ruler Guided quilting exercises for the Arc Ruler. This is geared towards anyone who is just starting, or interested in exploring ruler guided quilting. Here are the four exer…

Contrast (noun). “The state of being strikingly different from something else, typically something in juxtaposition or close association.” Photo A The word contrast is a key word in a quiltmaker’s vocabulary. We look for contrast

Free motion quilting with rulers on domestic sewing machine. Week 3 in a series.

Curved crosshatching with rulers on a sewing machine.