Next Steps With Your Walking Foot

Class Preview

Discover easy walking-foot skills and new motifs that will accentuate your piecing, create tantalizing texture and beautifully enhance any project!

Walking-Foot Basics

Meet designer and author Jacquie Gering as she previews the creative designs you’ll learn to make with your walking foot. Get started by learning about the basics of a walking foot and an integrated dual feed. You’ll also discover effective ways to start and stop your walking foot, whether it’s on the edge of your quilt or in the middle.

New Linear Designs

A walking foot is perfect for linear quilting, and Jacquie shows you how to use registration lines to keep your stitching straight and orderly. Learn how to embellish straight lines with triangles of any size, then practice stitching wavy lines that are quilted using gentle curves.

Decorative Stitches

Explore decorative stitches as you learn how to use utility stitches to create beautiful textures and discover complex designs, perfect for your quilt’s focal points. Plus, find out how to keep a record of your decorative stitches by noting stitch counts, settings and favorite decorative motifs in a journal. Jacquie shows you how!

Concentric Shapes

Expand the design options for your projects with a variety of concentric patterns. Using geometric shapes, such as circles, triangles, rectangles and hexagons, Jacquie shows you how to mark guidelines on your fabric, create a traveling line and carefully quilt beautiful repeating shapes!

Spirals

Learn the secret to spiraling with your walking foot! Get in-depth instruction on stitching a whimsical wobbly spiral design. In the process, you’ll learn the Magic Spiral formula used to create these shapes. Not a math whiz? Jacquie breaks it down into simple math that anyone can do.

Designs With Reverse Stitching

Time to throw your quilting in reverse! If your machine allows it, reverse stitching can make small directional changes that alleviate the need to turn your quilt. Learn to quilt Jacquie’s twigs and Southwest designs, which use reverse stitching. Then, challenge yourself to create new designs!

New Curved Designs

Infuse your quilts with a sense of movement and personality by incorporating radiating and braided curves. Creating these designs is all about the marking, and Jacquie shows you each step of the process, even offering up some shortcuts. Plus, learn how to create a gorgeous leaf stitch.

Curved Remixes

Jacquie takes curved designs even further by showing how to mark and quilt the clamshell stitch. Next, tackle a flower and circle design — without marking your fabric. It can be challenging without lines to follow, but with a little practice, you’ll be quilting this design like a pro!