Diamond Wavy Lines! Easy & Fast Free Motion Quilting Stitch

hello and welcome to quilt addicts anonymous i'm stephanie sebbing as promised a couple of days ago when we did our grince tutorial replay which is this pattern here we're going to do a quilting play-by-play today and you're going to get to see on our gopro as i am actually quilting it so you can see close up what i'm doing as well as a side camera so you can see how i'm working across the quilt so we're excited to be able to share this with you mostly because it's my fabric collection so it's super exciting but also because today's quilting stitch looks totally awesome but it's super fast and super simple it's just wavy lines and we're going across the quilt so we'll see that i'm just doing different wavy lines to kind of follow the curve of the diamond and have that just go straight across it's really fun it's really cool it's very simple and i know a lot of times once we get to the quilting stage we kind of just want to hurry up and get it done but you spent all the time and money to piece the quilt top that i think your quilt top deserves some attention to and today's example is a stitch that you can do fairly easily and fast on your machine and so that way you can get it done quickly you can have the satisfaction of getting that quilt done but it's still quilted pretty densely and in like a modified custom way and so it really looks very neat and it gives your quilt top it helps bring it to life when you have good quilting like this when you've chosen the design well to help accentuate what the design is on your quilt and i feel that a lot of times we miss that when we just do something quickly and largely in order to get it done and then sometimes you can have issues for like your batting will shift and all that but this way looks fabulous and it was easy and it was fast and those are all things that i know you guys love because i won't know you want to finish more quilts all right so i'm going to turn on my computer and i'm going to watch the footage along with you guys and explain my thought process and then what i was actually doing before we get into this though i want to tell you about my thread so i use glide as always but i use like a celery green color for my quilting and i've said it before green is a neutral and i know that that probably sounds crazy to some of you guys but in this quilt this citron i was very adamant that we included this when we designed my collection because this color is like the most underrated color out there because it helps make everything else pop you see it a lot in home decor especially with the teals and the dark navy's and that are out there right now that they're just so popular but what makes it pop is having these little bits of teal or citron and that just really makes everything come together we have little bits of it in all of the fabrics almost all the fabrics and it really just accentuates that so that is the color that i chose for my thread and so it really coordinates well and it sort of just adds another little element because you definitely do see it when you're going over the darker bits but it coordinates beautifully and adds a little bit of pop that brings it to the next level so when you're choosing your thread you know you could have ease i could have easily done a gray on this but i think that that green was the better choice because it just adds a little something extra and makes it a little less you know ho-hum blah i know i use a lot of really basic colors a lot of the time but this one deserved a little something special and that was green so all right let's watch the quilting all right so first of all you can see that i've loaded my quilt on sideways that's so i can quilt from top to bottom without having to break thread so you can see here on my first pass i'm trying to aim just do a nice wavy line but always going through those points i want to always when i pass through go through one of the points so that way it makes it look like everything is confined to a diamond these are two separate blocks but it looks very nice that way all right so that's pass number one now we're going to start past number two for this one i'm going kind of close to the edge of the quilt and i'm go or the the block so i'm kind of going along the edge to the diamond here i want to really get as close as i can to it without going over because like i said i wanted to kind of create that custom look like i had created it cost or quilted a custom which i basically did but in like a very easy free motion way and again i'm still going to those points when i'm passing over every single time with every single pass all right so here's pass number two or three and now i'm going on the other side and i'm going through again as close to the edge as i can so when you're doing this density is a very personal choice so you need to decide how densely you like to quilt these which is what is going to happen about next but there's you always kind of want to start wide because if you go very dense and you're committed to that for the entire quilt or else things are going to look weird so that's why i started first with the middle pass and then i did the two sides because then i can pick how dense i want to be as i go in all right so here i am i'm starting past number four now and i am quilting in between but at this point i decided that i wanted to do two passes in between the outermost and the center line so i'm quilting about a third of the way in at this point and then we're going to follow it up with one more but again i'm always going through those points whenever i'm traveling to the next diamond all right so here is our fourth pass i've lost track one two three up fourth pass and this one is the one where i'm doing about a third of the way again this time closer to that middle we did this one before now we're doing this line and there really is no rhyme or reason when i'm doing wavy lines i just try not to cross over any of my other wavy lines although that gets a little tricky when you're passing in between those points but i just kind of want it to wiggle around and kind of be in like thirds in that case all right so now i'm doing the same thing but i'm doing it on the other half of that diamond so i'm starting off with the outer and then i'm going to move to the next pass to that other third and keeping in mind that we already did our center and our outside so this entire pass going through one diamond is going to take seven passes but it's super fast you're watching this in real time it took me about seven minutes per pass so seven minutes per diamond as i was going quilting from the top to the bottom with that quilt loaded on sideways so it really went very fast it was a really fun quilt to do because there really isn't a lot of rules except to have your lines be wavy and to try not to cross them that was my only parameters for this and then again to try to keep the same density so then when you do every other diamond you're going to do the same process you're going to start by quilting down the center then you're going to do your outsides then i did two more on either sides of that center getting about a third of the way in on each one and it creates the same density all the way down so that's why i said it's a really personal choice i certainly could have gone more dense with this i could have gone less i could have just done one uh strip in between this instead of two but i really like the look of two and it made it go very quickly for me all right so now we are on the second row and you saw a little bit earlier i started at a half because it doesn't start at a point like these do it starts right in the middle so i'm just going to start right in the middle but then the rest of it is pretty much the same you know in this one it looks like i'm doing the outer one first and it so it really doesn't matter as long as you hit your parameters you always are going to want to do your center and your outsides first to give you those parameters and where you don't want to go beyond so here i'm doing the bottom and then you want to work your way in from there because that sort of gives you your guides where you don't want to go too close to and then you're able to get your ones and your thirds together all right so here we are starting and you can see real clearly it was that triangle so i started right in the middle of the triangle because i wanted to do my middle row and that's really the only difference is every other one you're either going to be starting at a point and working your way around or you're going to be starting at a flat triangle and still doing the same lines but your starting points are you know spread out more here whereas they are all starting from the same point when you're doing the points it's not hard at all i'm gonna let you go ahead and just watch uh as i go through the rest of it and you can see it's really fast it took about 15 minutes tops just to do those two rows and it went just the whole quilt was done in an afternoon so that is really not a lot of time to invest in a quilt especially considering it took way longer than that piece the results are fabulous i really love the texture that i created it's a custom look but it's not like ridiculously long commitment of time to do it [Music] [Music] all right well that was it i hope you really enjoyed this cool team play by play to see how you can really do something fun and fast and simple but still have a custom look and create some good density when you're quilting so you no longer have to feel like you just need to go really big and not have a lot of texture in order to just get it done you can still do everything and be really efficient with your time by just planning and this is just a wavy line it's very beginner friendly and you can do this with a walking foot too on your home sewing machine very easily we've got an entire video on that as part of our beginner quilting series so that's something that you easily could do at home as well if you don't have a long arm like i do and it just has such great results and i just love it and i just can't emphasize enough like your quilts deserve more than just one big all over something or other that barely holds it together if you can do something dense but quick and easy i it looks fabulous every time you will never regret it alright so make sure you check out congruence on our website we have kits for this available this is my fabric collection nocturne that came out earlier this year and it's a no neutral quilt so it's really fun it really shows up the colors and the colors are very on trend right now in home decor so it'll look beautiful and because there's no neutral you don't have to worry about kids or pets or husbands who spill their coffee messing it up because it will hide it it'll be fine and then also we've got the tutorial for piecing it we have the kits and the pattern is available in my book fat quarter workshop which is a best seller on amazon and that's super exciting so go check that out you can get a signed copy from us over at shop.quiltmax anonymous.com until next time happy quilting [Music] you

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Length: 13min 8sec (788 seconds)

Published: Mon Sep 20 2021