This type of free motion quilting may have another name, but I like to call it scribble quilting.
It looks like scribbling, doesn’t it? This is the first type of free motion I learned because it felt the most comfortable. It only requires that you move to the left, whereas stippling and pebble quilting require all over motion. I used to joke that I was like Zoolander because I’m not an ambiturner.
A big part of free motion quilting is getting to know your machine. I learned last week that my machine will absolutely not tolerate Coats and Clark cotton thread for free motion. Straight line quilting is okay (although it makes a pretty hideous bobbin) but it chokes on it for free motion. The thread sort of splits up the middle and knots around the needle eye. Helga the Pfaff only likes Aurifil. What a snob.
Good to know….as I gather up the nerve to try free motion! I like the scribble too….brings back nice memories!
poo on C&C, yeah for Aurifil! It’s my favorite thread……of all time!
I recently got bold and did my first real free motion quilting. I signed onto Leah Day’s site on my laptop and played her tutorials one by one next to my sewing machine. Then I just did what she did. Some of them turned out great, some not so great. Some didn’t look like hers, but they looked good. Some I thought would look terrible as I was doing it, but then they weren’t half bad. I’m not artistic or talented, nor am I very imaginative; but this went so well that I’m not emboldened about doing it some more. Downy Quilts for Kids are a great way to practice.
Helga could be even a Snob …but for sure is a good friend of mine .
I am just starting up again to embroidery and this reminds me of those stitches. It is very appealing to me.
Very happy to have this detailed picture!
I find I can do my version of stippling, haven’t tried the scribble one yet, might try it on my next quilt. You have done a really good job of it, nice and neat and fairly even.
I do that kind of quilting every now and then. But I do it vertically.
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