Circle meander quilting pattern how to#
Circle meander quilting pattern pro#
Circle meander quilting pattern series#
Circle meander quilting pattern free#

The grid can be natural in your quilt (the quilt blocks) or marked out on the quilt top with washable marker, chalk, or pencil. To start, I am going to talk about patterns that utilize a grid.

Circle meander quilting pattern how to#

By drawing on paper, you can learn how to make continuous lines (don’t lift up the pencil!) and how to come back in a pattern to fill in any gaps or spaces that you might create as you go along. One of the hardest things to learn is how to fill in all the space. When you are finished, it should look like. Then stitch the lower half of the circle. Begin your row of stitching in the middle of your railsStitch the upper half of the circle. The more you practice, the more confidence you will feel and the more muscle memory you will develop to help you when you start working with fabric at your machine. The Two-Pass Circle is sewn in halves: The first pass is the top of the circle, while the second pass is the lower half of the circle. My tutorial and advice for today is to practice with a pencil and paper. I kept reading about the techniques, but I was too afraid to try it on my own.īut fear not, because you can start to learn and build confidence without even using up fabric, thread, or time at your sewing machine. I quilted my first kaleidoscopic images by following their interwoven patterns with simple outlines to emphasize the circular flow. I was intimidated enough by the process that I took a class from Elizabeth Hartman in order to force myself to learn.

Circle meander quilting pattern free#

So think about going for contrast between your motif and your flowing lolly-gag connecting design.There are a LOT of great tutorials and resources available to help you gain confidence and learn to free motion quilt on your home machine (a long arm is not required!). The flowers get lost in the meander because the shape of the flowers (curves) and the shape of the stipple (curves) are just too similar.

Circle meander quilting pattern series#

I love the leaves, but I would reject the stipple meander. Package includes: in this set, you will get 1PCS Quilting Frame and 11pcs Series 5 Free Motion Quilting Templates (Q5-01,Q5-02,Q5-03,Q5-04,SQ,Q5-06,Q5-07,Q5-08,Q5-09,Q5-10, Q5-11) All types of FMQ GRIP 5 internal templates, which helps you to quilt different patterns. You should be pretty comfortable with stitching Leaves! What could possibly go better with flowers, right?Īdvanced Pro-Tip: Take a look at these three Anything E2E designs. Kick it up a notch using a design that you’ve had lots of practice with recently. My good friend Mary Fisher from Oklahoma likes to say, “lolly-gag over to the next flower.” By that she means travel to the next motif with a design you are very comfortable with. To make this an E2E we need some connecting lines. Stitch a big round loop for the center circle.Ĭomplete the flower with three molars under the center. I keep thinking about this image as I quilt. Note: the pencil line is how I imagine the flower will look when completed.

Stitch pathĮnter on the left and stitch 2 molars at the top of the flower. If you do, please share with all of us in the comments. This is not the only way to do it! You might come up with an even better way. Remember the 5 basic shapes? Each petal is a molar shape (you know, like the tooth, molar) like this:īecause we are creating an E2E pattern we have to decide how to enter and how to exit the motif (flower). Decide the stitch pathįirst analyze the motif and suss out the shapes you will need to quilt. So we’ve got a motif that will be easy to stitch. And EVERY flower in nature is perfect and beautiful. Not enough petals? Too many petals? Center not really round? It’s all good! No two flowers in nature are the same. Organic shapes, like flowers and leaves are super easy to stitch because they are very forgiving. By now you’ve heard it many times if you have been following along with this series. I really like the orange flower with the blue center. Maybe your fabric has a flower that you love and that might make a really cool quilting design. One fun way to decide on a motif is to look at your fabric. Just choose a motif that compliments your quilt and connect repeats of that motif with continuous flowing stitching. It’s edge-to-edge, so it is fast and easy to stitch.

This technique allows you to customize a design that is unique to each quilt.

Circle meander quilting pattern pro#

As promised, I have some Pro Tips for you, so that you can get the most out of Anything E2E quilting.