Wild Quilting: Creative Free-Motion Combinations
Learn techniques that make mesmerizing free-motion quilting more manageable, more fun and more rewarding!
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Learn techniques that make mesmerizing free-motion quilting more manageable, more fun and more rewarding!
The Basic Skills
Kick off class by getting to know popular Craftsy instructor and author Christina Cameli. Then discover her tips for bringing greater dimension to your work by adjusting the density of your quilting and using echoing to make motifs stand out even more. Before moving on, Christina will show you how to use travel stitching to navigate around your quilt without stopping to snip threads.
Divide & Conquer
If you ever feel overwhelmed when looking at an unfinished top, this lesson will help you divide up your project to make quilting more manageable. Christina will also show you how you can vary your motifs and stitch density to make your divided spaces pop!
Grouped Combinations
Take your quilting confidence even further as Christina shows you how to flow from stitching one design to the next. You’ll discover how to choose motifs that play off of each other, as well as how to fill in space organically and avoid square edges.
Blended Combinations
Get into a stitching rhythm by combining motifs into a consistent pattern. Christina will help you select the shapes you want to connect and improve the consistency of your designs with her counting technique.
Layered Combinations
Learn how to create delightfully dynamic stitch designs in vertical layers. Next, find out how to add visual interest with partial layers. Christina will also give you tips for filling in the open space left by partial layers.
Showboats
No one likes a showboat, unless it’s an attention-grabbing quilt design! Find out how these motifs can improve your finished quilts by pulling your viewer’s eye to a breathtaking focal point. Christina will even show you how you can use multiple showboat motifs for a breathtaking all-over design.
Integrating
Christina will help you really get wild as you bring together all the techniques you’ve learned into one beautiful, personalized quilt! Along the way, she’ll guide you through design considerations for working on a small or large-scale project.
