Making Connections—A Free-Motion Quilting Workbook: 12 Design Suites - For Longarm or Domestic Machines
By Dorie Hruska
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Making Connections—A Free-Motion Quilting Workbook - Dorie Hruska
Introduction
Quilters have been stitching continuous curved designs for years and calling them all kinds of different names. In this workbook, we will be looking at many different variations of these designs and expanding upon them, providing limitless possibilities for quilting. To take it a step further, we’ll travel into open spaces like borders and large triangles, filling them in with these connecting designs. We will also look at applying this concept to the entire quilt top.
Time is a precious thing. You can spend your time stitching individual motifs in each area of a quilt, stopping and cutting your threads after each design, or you can save time by connecting the designs—stitching them from one side of the quilt all the way to the other side, with just one start and stop. By keeping the designs simple, you can achieve a more complicated look. By repeating those designs throughout the quilt, you can also create a balance in design and texture.
Making Connections—A Free-Motion Quilting Workbook is a collection of custom quilting designs for fewer starts and stops, including step-by-step instructions on how to get started. As you work through this book, I hope you will discover just how easy it is to quilt these designs and maybe come up with a few of your own.
Forever quilting,
Dorie
Objectives for This Book
• Learn how to use connecting designs to connect stitching lines with fewer stops and starts.
• Complete the quilting faster by using freehand designs (versus ruler work).
• Limit or eliminate stitch-in-the-ditch quilting.
How to Use This Book
In this workbook, basic concepts and stitching designs are introduced first in straightforward squares and squares on point. As the study continues, we will develop a skill set of more difficult designs and filler motifs. Armed with an arsenal of designs, we will then focus on continuous-line strategies within more complicated, irregular blocks. After a quilt top is pieced using the pattern included, all of these skills will be put to use in a final project. The last chapter provides instruction on the execution of continuous-line quilting, from sashing to blocks, setting triangles, corners, and borders.
The following is a color key of stitching lines used for instructional purposes:
• Blue: first pass
• Green: second pass
• Orange: third pass
• Purple: fourth pass
• Single red dots: intersections
• Solid red lines: exit paths
• Dashed red lines: travel paths
• Dotted red lines: secondary travel paths
Basic Instructions
Practice Drawing
Let’s begin practicing by drawing the designs in rows.
For the first very basic stitching design, start drawing from the top left corner and work to the right along the top edge.
Get the feel of drawing the curves.
Now let’s move on.
Say to yourself, Over, down, up … over, down, up …
until you finish the row.
First line of a very basic stitching design
To finish the design, draw a second line from right to left: Over • Over • Over, to the end of the row.