Machine Quilting

Overcome your free-motion fears and build confidence in your machine quilting. Wendy Butler Berns shows you easy techniques from start to finishing!

You've spent hours making your quilt top, choosing fabrics, creating a design, piecing and embellishing it. Now learn how to machine quilt it yourself! Wendy shares strategies that will help you succeed, from layering the quilt and choosing threads to finding inspiration for machine-quilting designs. Your confidence will grow as you move from simple free-motion motifs to intricate thread arrangements.

In this 10-lesson class you’ll learn how to assemble, bind and quilt your handmade designs. Your free-motion quilting will evolve as you build your skills, first with pencil and paper, then with thread and your sewing machine. Along the way, Wendy shares dozens of troubleshooting tips you can use in any quilting project.

Sharpen your machine quilting skills and learn how to free-motion quilt today by enrolling in Machine Quilting: Free-Motion & More!

• 10 HD video lessons with anytime, anywhere access
• Support you need to jump into machine quilting
• Hours of close-up instruction
• Answers from Wendy in our virtual classroom

• Watch classes on your own schedule: wherever, whenever you want
• Your access never expires
• 100% money back guarantee

1. Introduction (4:06)

   Meet award-winning quilter, teacher and author Wendy Butler Berns.

2. Preparing Your Quilts (35:27)

   Learn about basting options and how to set up your sandwich and pin to baste.

3. Stabilizing the Quilt (25:05)

   Choose the right thread, sew stabilizing lines with the “stitch-in-the-ditch” method and maneuver the quilt like a pro.

4. Walking Foot Stitch Designs (31:58)

   Learn to use your walking foot for five basic motifs: echo lines, outlining, diagonal stitch, wineglass stitch and easy curve stitch.

5. Marking for Free-Motion Quilting (17:41)

   How to use stencils, marking materials, the heirloom quilting technique and the no-mark method.

6. Simple Free-Motion Quilting (35:43)

   Get started with free-motion quilting using four easy motifs: stippling, zigzag, continuous star and traveling vines.

7. Complex Free-Motion Quilting (22:30)

   More complex free-motion designs: spirals, feathers, flowers and bubbles.

8. Thread Talk (27:43)

   A primer on choosing threads, proper spooling and setting machine tension. By the end, you'll have an addiction to thread!

9. Whole Cloth Quilting & Troubleshooting (23:32)

   Learn solutions for some common quilting problems, including broken threads and needles, as well as tension trouble.

10. Bindings & Finishing Touches (44:20)

    Add an easy border and binding, plus a rod pocket and a label with all the information to show off your artwork.

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