Free-motion Challenge Quilting Along

Join the New Free-Motion Challenge Quilting Along

Quilt Along with Angela Walters

Hey quilters! It’s me, Angela Walters, and I’m thrilled to share my new Free-motion Challenge Quilting Along series, Negative Spaces. Let’s learn some of my favorite designs and techniques for quilting the background areas of our quilts. The best part? It’s absolutely free!

Quilting Background Areas Can Be Fun!

First, learn how to use echoing and continuous curve designs to help highlight quilt blocks and be inspired to create your own design variations. Then, we’ll learn quilting designs and techniques that are perfect for the background areas of your quilts. You’ll learn how to use the quilting add movement and texture to your quilt, we’ll explore how to change us the size of the quilting designs to add interest, how to create secondary designs and more!

The Free-motion Challenge Schedule

Continuous Curve Designs - July 1st
Three Ways to Echo Blocks - July 1st
Adding Movement - July 8th
Changing Scale - July 15th
Quilting Secondary Designs - July 22nd

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Throughout this free machine quilting video series, we’ll learn the following topics:

How to use the continuous curve technique to quickly and easily quilt blocks of all sizes and shapes.
See how simple echo lines can help highlight quilt blocks and other areas.
Different quilting techniques for the background areas of your quilt including adding movement, changing quilting density, creating secondary patterns and more.
How to quilt Angela’s favorite designs for background areas: wavy lines, pebbles, swirls and more.
Machine quilting the designs on a home sewing machine and a longarm quilting machine.
PLUS- Get free downloadable quilting diagrams for each of the videos in this machine quilting class.

Negative Spaces

Free-motion Challenge Quilting Along

A Free Video Class from Machine Quilting Expert Angela Walters

Deciding how to machine quilt large areas of background negative space on your quilts doesn’t have to be daunting! In fact, quilting these areas is easier than you might think….especially with Angela Walters to show you how!

Quilt along with Angela in this free online machine quilting class, as she shows you how to create impactful quilting in background areas of your quilts. And the best part, it’s absolutely free to join in the quilting fun! Quilt along with me and thousands of other quilters as I teach you my favorite free-motion designs.

First we’ll learn continuous curve designs for quilt blocks as well as how to efficiently work through areas of a quilt. Then we’ll see how simple echo lines can help highlight quilt blocks in so many ways!

Then, we’ll move on to learn quilting designs and techniques that are perfect for background areas of your quilts. You’ll learn how to use the quilting add movement with the wavy, wavy and ogee designs…….both of which add a gorgeous wavy texture to background areas. We’ll also learn how to quilt the designs in irregularly shaped areas.

Next we’ll see how changing the scale, or density, of a quilting design can add interest and help draw attention to particular areas of your quilt. And we’ll finish up by using the quilting to create secondary pattern for even more impact in the background areas of our quilts.

I’ll also demonstrate how to quilt the designs on a sewing machine and a longarm, and share plenty of quilted examples. Plus, I’ll have free downloadable quilting diagrams for the videos so that you can be successful with the skills we’re learning!

Whether you’re a free-motion quilting newbie looking to improve your skills or an established quilter looking for design inspiration, this video series is for you!