Free motion border designs

Making a free motion quilting sample book is a great way to keep a record of your favorite background designs. See how to make this book.

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…

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

How's that for a lame title? Anyway - it has been a busy week. Fun, crazy, but most importantly - productive. The toddler is such a help! First off, thanks so much for all your sweet comments on my last post! You make me feel so loved! Congratulations to Jenny from Cut.Sew.Iron.Repeat - she has won a copy of Quiltmaker magazine. So, email me Jenny at judi @ greenfairyquilts . com and I will have the magazine sent to you right away. All pictures from Instagram - @judiakagreenfairy Playing…

Have you read the post on vines and feathers ? Have you sketched some designs? Alright, let's rock. The last two medium sized strips on the...

Good Morning, Quilters! It’s Tuesday…and I have a Sweet Treat for you–a little Ribbon Candy! I know Ribbon Candy is traditionally a Christmas confection, but stitched in pink.. pretty at any time of the year! It makes a great border–quick, easy and fun! (Ribbon Candy is much easier to stitch than it is to make–see […]

Join Julie Plotniko for step 4 of a wholecloth walking foot quilt as she uses SCHMETZ needles and Gütermann thread and a UNIQUE marker to create complex looking border designs that can be stitched with ease. Free pattern and tutorial.

This past week, I started and finished a fun new Wholecloth Quilt that yielded 36 fun, new free-motion quilting motifs. Not only am I thril...

I think we can all agree that as quilters we have this deeply implanted love of creating and being creative, and that creativity doesn’t just stop at piecing a quilt top. Doing the actu…