Quilting Challenge

Learning how to improve your free-motion quilting skills can be fun! Whether you’re an FMQ newbie, or an experienced machine quilter looking for design inspiration, you can find the right quilting challenge for you, right here online at Quilting Is My Therapy.

Each free-motion quilting challenge functions a little like an online course with a series of tutorial videos that walk you through the different aspects of the challenge. You can find all of our past quilting challenges on this page!

At Quilting Is My Therapy we focus on creating an environment free of perfectionism, and that’s reflected in every quilting challenge. It’s ok to make mistakes! Most quilters aren’t happy with their first attempts at free-motion quilting.

We designed each quilting challenge to allow you to go at your own pace. But, we also know quilting is often better with friends. You can join our free-motion quilting challenge Facebook group to share your progress and cheer on other quilters!

Real quick, if you don’t know, free-motion quilting is a particular style of quilting using a sewing or longarm quilting machine. Rather than using the machine’s feed dogs to move the quilt sandwich forward, you’re completely in control which allows you to create fun shapes and unique patterns.

Now having such free rein can sound a little overwhelming at first, but as they say, practice makes perfect! The more you try free-motion quilting, the better you’ll get at it.

We show you everything you need to get started.

• A suggested supply list
• Links to the printable design and placement guides
• A schedule of our videos and live check-ins

It’s easy as 1,2,3 to participate in our quilting challenges!

1. Gather your supplies and watch the weekly tutorial video to hone your skills.
2. Join the weekly live chat on YouTube to chat with other quilters.
3. Share your progress in the exclusive Free Motion Quilting group on Facebook!

All of the machine quilting designs in the Free-motion Challenge Quilting Along videos will be demonstrated on a sewing machine. Some of them will also be demonstrated on a longarm. But rest assured, no matter what type of machine you have, you will be able to quilt these designs!

You can find the link to each video’s diagrams in several places, including the description on the YouTube video, on the website. If you want to make it real easy on yourself, you can get them emailed to you directly by signing up for the Free-motion Challenge Quilting along email newsletter!

We know that life can be busy and that it can get in the way of quilting time. Even if you can’t participate in the quilting challenge right now, the videos will stay on YouTube and the website indefinitely. That way, you can work through them at your convenience.