Thanks for sharing your learning process. I am also woodgrain challenged. I must try your method and see if my brain can conquer the design. S curve fills are definitely at the top of the list of favorites. Thanks for sharing. I look forward to your videos. 😊
Hi again! Thank you for your feednack! I think I have a love/hate relationship with the wood grain design. I will get it one day 😁. I need to spend more time drawing, I think. But I got some more ideas in the meantime ❤❤❤❤
I just discovered you today. I am just starting to learn free motion quilting and these designs make me feel like I could actually learn to do this. Also, it is very relaxing and calming to watch you you ;-) Thank you!
Welcome to my channel! You can do it! I watched so many reluctant people turning into creative quilters❤❤❤. Start easy, I have some other videos with very easy "starter" patterns. Rules for best quilting: relax, dont't expect perfection, do not compare with others, compare with your previous work....take a deep breath, think round thoughts and let go. Quilting is a very slow art. Keep me posted on your progress!❤❤❤❤
Thank you❤❤❤. I have watched this video three times now. I love your way of doing the wood design, it is much easier. Now for #3 design, I love that one a lot also. I’m trying to get that part of the design that goes at an angle between the larger area but I can’t get a consistent pattern when I’m trying to create and practice this on paper. I will keep trying and watching your video closely. Thank you for another amazing video. ❤️❤️❤️🌞🌻
Hi! I admit that I got the idea for this pattern the moment I hit the record button. It means I also need some time to udnerstand it. However, as with every quilting pattern it is all about divide and fill. I don't know how large is the area you are trying to fill, bit my large S-curves are about 1/3 of the edge length. Try playing with the angles. Also I went around my area and filled it as I went. If your area is too large it can be challenging at first. I will try to use it again in some of my next videos and clarify some things better. Thank you for your feedback! Such comments make me think and in the end make me better at explaining. I will also try to doodle it during lunch break😃❤❤❤❤❤
Yes I get challenged too with reverse images so S curves and woodgrain confuse my brain so much that I can't do them, even ribbon does too. However I think ribbon is beginning to sink in. S curves I'll still give amiss but your method of woodgrain makes perfect sense to me. I can see how a lot of wavy lines plus some backtracking gives a lovely effect as the fill in provided I didn't try to fill in every gap. I must give these a try so thank you for showing it in real time so we see the whole process.
Thank you for the feedback! Despite years of quilting I still have patterns where I am getting lost. Wood grain is one of them. And I have to concentrate real hard when I quilt designs with alternating directions. I prefer a real speed videos. Sometimes I try to find something as inspiration for me but most of them are accelerated.... Maybe I am an old school😅😂❤❤❤
Recently discovered your channel and have been binge watching your beautiful quilting designs. Thank you for sharing your expertise. Subscribing, and looking forward to your future tutorials.
Welcome and thank you for your wonderful feedback. This is what I am aiming for ❤❤❤. I hope you will find something to inspire and try out! Let me know!❤❤❤
I am a big fun of Janome. This one in my videos is M7, this very large one but I used to have a Horizon and it was wonderful too. Just smaller. Thank you for watching!❤❤❤
I really like that last one. I’m going to practice it. I have a question though. I’m looking for a fmq idea for a fab farm quilt. Yes I know how to do loops meanders, feathers, and such, but now I’m stumped as I am trying to do more advanced quilting styles, but don’t know how to incorporate it not a quilt like fab farm with various animal blocks. Do you have any ideas?
Wow, great comment, many questions....First I admit I needed to scheck how a fam afb quilt looks like. It is wonderful. Second there are so many options I do not know where to start. I will try to help a bit. First, do not quilt anythign you do not feel comfortable with. Your body will hessitate, you will be afarid to spoil the quilt and it will show immdiately. FMQ is a bit like a seismograph. Then a general advice for such quilt. I would select one pattern aas a background to quilt in between. Lines, swirls, rows of the same light patter. Then I would outline each of the animal blocks with one or two echo lines from the outline seam lines. Sheep are easy, loops and swirls, something puffy, you can chose whatever pattern you like. Play with outline of the ears or belly....The thrid option is to use a nice and gentle overall pattern. Nothing that is dominant as the blocks are so great. take one step at a time. I do not know if I helped you. it is difficult to do that via text....Good luck and let me know how it is going. I am sure it will be great!
Very nice, Gosia! I like the ribbon one, bever saw that one before, seems fairly easy to do. I have done pattern #2 a few times in small areas and borders The S lines one is the most striking, though.~Cynthia P.S. the wood grain one always intimidated me so I never tried that!
Hi Cynthia! The ribbon is perfect for fast projects. It is indeed very easy variation of a meander line. I love S-cirves. There are so many possibilities and they always relax me. And wood grain is really frustrating. I am still trying to understand it so I can show it better for others..... Life is a journey, right....❤❤❤❤
@@rootsrocksfeathers1975 Thank you for noticing it! I think we all have enough of the illusion of ease and perfection from social media. Skill takes time and attention. ❤❤❤
@@quiltingnerd Yes! Trying to keep up an illusion must be exhausting! Learning to machine quilt takes a LOT of practice and thread and the courage to try new things, push yourself. I know the vast amount of practice it took to get to your skill level. I may get there one day, am much more skillful than I was a couple of years ago, but not without spending some hours at the machine. I look forward to your new videos and while I wait for the next, I go back and watch the previously recorded ones. I think I have improved just by watching some of the moves over and over! Blessings to you, have a great upcoming week. ~Cynthia
@@rootsrocksfeathers1975 Wow! Thank you! You just made my day. I am a scientist by day so facts are important to me. And If I go to all that effort with YT videos I want all of us to learn something. Also that I need to learn. And I learned the same way you do. Watch and try.... Have areat day and thank you for sharing your time!
Best wood grain I’ve seen! Nice!!
Thank you! I still need to work on it so it flows better. ❤❤❤❤
Great idea doing the knots first!
I am still struggling with this design so I am trying to come up with different strategies. Happy you liked it!❤❤❤
Thanks for sharing your learning process. I am also woodgrain challenged. I must try your method and see if my brain can conquer the design. S curve fills are definitely at the top of the list of favorites. Thanks for sharing. I look forward to your videos. 😊
Hi again! Thank you for your feednack! I think I have a love/hate relationship with the wood grain design. I will get it one day 😁. I need to spend more time drawing, I think. But I got some more ideas in the meantime ❤❤❤❤
Love the one that looks like ribbon!
And it is a very easy and effective design too. ❤❤❤
I just discovered you today. I am just starting to learn free motion quilting and these designs make me feel like I could actually learn to do this. Also, it is very relaxing and calming to watch you you ;-) Thank you!
Welcome to my channel! You can do it! I watched so many reluctant people turning into creative quilters❤❤❤. Start easy, I have some other videos with very easy "starter" patterns. Rules for best quilting: relax, dont't expect perfection, do not compare with others, compare with your previous work....take a deep breath, think round thoughts and let go. Quilting is a very slow art. Keep me posted on your progress!❤❤❤❤
Thank you❤❤❤. I have watched this video three times now. I love your way of doing the wood design, it is much easier. Now for #3 design, I love that one a lot also. I’m trying to get that part of the design that goes at an angle between the larger area but I can’t get a consistent pattern when I’m trying to create and practice this on paper. I will keep trying and watching your video closely. Thank you for another amazing video. ❤️❤️❤️🌞🌻
Hi! I admit that I got the idea for this pattern the moment I hit the record button. It means I also need some time to udnerstand it. However, as with every quilting pattern it is all about divide and fill. I don't know how large is the area you are trying to fill, bit my large S-curves are about 1/3 of the edge length. Try playing with the angles. Also I went around my area and filled it as I went. If your area is too large it can be challenging at first. I will try to use it again in some of my next videos and clarify some things better.
Thank you for your feedback! Such comments make me think and in the end make me better at explaining. I will also try to doodle it during lunch break😃❤❤❤❤❤
Yes I get challenged too with reverse images so S curves and woodgrain confuse my brain so much that I can't do them, even ribbon does too. However I think ribbon is beginning to sink in. S curves I'll still give amiss but your method of woodgrain makes perfect sense to me. I can see how a lot of wavy lines plus some backtracking gives a lovely effect as the fill in provided I didn't try to fill in every gap. I must give these a try so thank you for showing it in real time so we see the whole process.
Thank you for the feedback! Despite years of quilting I still have patterns where I am getting lost. Wood grain is one of them. And I have to concentrate real hard when I quilt designs with alternating directions.
I prefer a real speed videos. Sometimes I try to find something as inspiration for me but most of them are accelerated.... Maybe I am an old school😅😂❤❤❤
Recently discovered your channel and have been binge watching your beautiful quilting designs. Thank you for sharing your expertise. Subscribing, and looking forward to your future tutorials.
Welcome and thank you for your wonderful feedback. This is what I am aiming for ❤❤❤. I hope you will find something to inspire and try out! Let me know!❤❤❤
Love watching you stitch! What kind of machine are you using?
I am a big fun of Janome. This one in my videos is M7, this very large one but I used to have a Horizon and it was wonderful too. Just smaller. Thank you for watching!❤❤❤
I really like that last one. I’m going to practice it. I have a question though. I’m looking for a fmq idea for a fab farm quilt. Yes I know how to do loops meanders, feathers, and such, but now I’m stumped as I am trying to do more advanced quilting styles, but don’t know how to incorporate it not a quilt like fab farm with various animal blocks. Do you have any ideas?
Wow, great comment, many questions....First I admit I needed to scheck how a fam afb quilt looks like. It is wonderful. Second there are so many options I do not know where to start. I will try to help a bit. First, do not quilt anythign you do not feel comfortable with. Your body will hessitate, you will be afarid to spoil the quilt and it will show immdiately. FMQ is a bit like a seismograph. Then a general advice for such quilt. I would select one pattern aas a background to quilt in between. Lines, swirls, rows of the same light patter. Then I would outline each of the animal blocks with one or two echo lines from the outline seam lines. Sheep are easy, loops and swirls, something puffy, you can chose whatever pattern you like. Play with outline of the ears or belly....The thrid option is to use a nice and gentle overall pattern. Nothing that is dominant as the blocks are so great. take one step at a time. I do not know if I helped you. it is difficult to do that via text....Good luck and let me know how it is going. I am sure it will be great!
Very nice, Gosia! I like the ribbon one, bever saw that one before, seems fairly easy to do. I have done pattern #2 a few times in small areas and borders The S lines one is the most striking, though.~Cynthia P.S. the wood grain one always intimidated me so I never tried that!
Hi Cynthia! The ribbon is perfect for fast projects. It is indeed very easy variation of a meander line. I love S-cirves. There are so many possibilities and they always relax me. And wood grain is really frustrating. I am still trying to understand it so I can show it better for others..... Life is a journey, right....❤❤❤❤
@@quiltingnerd Thanks for keeping it real!
@@rootsrocksfeathers1975 Thank you for noticing it! I think we all have enough of the illusion of ease and perfection from social media. Skill takes time and attention. ❤❤❤
@@quiltingnerd Yes! Trying to keep up an illusion must be exhausting! Learning to machine quilt takes a LOT of practice and thread and the courage to try new things, push yourself. I know the vast amount of practice it took to get to your skill level. I may get there one day, am much more skillful than I was a couple of years ago, but not without spending some hours at the machine. I look forward to your new videos and while I wait for the next, I go back and watch the previously recorded ones. I think I have improved just by watching some of the moves over and over! Blessings to you, have a great upcoming week. ~Cynthia
@@rootsrocksfeathers1975 Wow! Thank you! You just made my day. I am a scientist by day so facts are important to me. And If I go to all that effort with YT videos I want all of us to learn something. Also that I need to learn. And I learned the same way you do. Watch and try.... Have areat day and thank you for sharing your time!
What is this foot called for the m7. I have the m6600 and wonder if this will work for me. Thanks
The foot is called variable zigzag opet toe QZ 862895006. I am sure I am supposed to use it for something else but I found it is great for FMQ 😃❤❤❤❤