How to create gentle curves in your quilting designs on Fresh Quilting with Jacquie Gering (101-3)

[Music] hi I'm Jackie Goering and we're going to talk quilting you know as quilters we have quilting options we can hand quilt we can free motion quilt and we can quilt with our walking foot today it's about the walking foot walking foot quilting is known for straight lines we can do lovely linear designs with our walking foot and if we look at the unparalleled quilt here on the design wall those beautifully channel quilted lines create wonderful texture on our quilts and while I love aligned the walking foot is also really versatile for our quilting and not only can we do lines we can do curves so let's look at a couple of quilts where I've done some walking foot quilted gentle curves and I want to emphasize to you that curves with the walking foot need to be gentle so let's look at this first quilt this is the night forest quilt and if we look at the quilting lines so notice how the lines are really gently curves there are no kind of circular curves on this and they follow the kind of gentleness of the trees in this quilt and those gentle curved lines can add a lot of movement and interest and texture to your quilts the next quilt is a really fun quilt so look at the curves of these buildings this is the tipsy city quilt and gently curved quilting was just perfect to emphasize the gentle curves of the building notice that they get a little bit more curvy on this quilt and in the bottom section also notice how the lines come together and apart to create kind of this different texture on the bottom of this quilt and we can use those curved lines to come in and touch each other to come out and create all sorts of different shapes that will give an interesting texture for your quilt so let's look next at this design and this one right here I call the organic curves design and again notice that the quilt of the curves are gentle and just flowing across this piece notice also how they come close together they come apart and that creates that really interesting texture what's really fun about this kind of quilting is I kind of call it let it go curves because they're organic and there are no lines to follow you can just really kind of let it go when you do this kind of quilting there are a couple of things to remember though when you're doing organic curves on your quilts first of all when we're curving as we quilt sometimes you know it's easy to kind of head off on the diagonal and we want those curves to be reasonably straight up and down as we quilt our quilt and so when we start this we're actually going to mark two lines that will help us stay reasonably straight so let's look at a sample and we'll take this sample sandwich right here and I'm going to do my quilting on this sandwich and if I start those gentle curves especially on a long quilt like think about if we're at 90 inches and a twin size or a double size quilt it's really easy to start straight and then kind of veer off to the diagonal and we really don't want that to happen so in comes our painters tape I use painters tape because it's less sticky than masking tape and we really don't want to have tape residue on my quilt so I'm going to take a piece and I'm going to set my first line like that and it's pretty straight and then I'm going to take my ruler and I'm going to set that I'm lining up that line right along the tape like this one two three four five six and it has about six and a half inches out and depending on the size of your quilt you might want to have these lines just a little bit farther apart so I'm going to set that second line like this using the edge of my ruler there you go so I have those two lines and what this is going to allow me to do is keep those gently curved lines reasonably straight over my quilt I'm going to start quilting here and I'm going to move towards this line and I can kind of visually see whether those lines are kind of moving the folks they don't have to be perfectly vertical because they're curvy and it's really easy to kind of get back to straight once I reach this piece of tape so this is my baseline right here and this is my registration line which allows me to kind of just see if I'm staying reasonably straight so let's go over to the Machine and let's quilt some gentle curves now I want you to look right here so I'm studying that I'm setting that foot at an angle because I'm starting off on a curve rather than setting it straight like this so I'm going to set it at an angle notice that I hold my sandwich up because if it's down here it's going to hit against my table and that's going to affect my stitch length the walking foot will work with your feed dog that adds that second set of feed dogs so it moves along the sandwich but if this sticks up against here that stitch length is going to vary and we're not going to have those nice even beautiful stitches so I'm going to hold that sandwich up here I'm going to use my chest as kind of an extra shelf get my foot on there here we go all right we're set in an angle and off we go oh goodness so did you notice what I did zoom so that's never good walking foot is a walking foot for a reason and it's a walk don't run so let's start again let's go nice and even let's get a rhythm there we go that's all right and I'm in control of my curve notice that I'm moving my sandwich I adjust a little bit I move in that sandwich to make my curve and off I go and remember I said there's no rule here there's no marking that I have to follow I just go and notice that I stopped every once in a while sometimes especially with a large quilt especially with a large quilt you're going to need to do some adjusting and also relax breathe it's really important to breathe and you know sometimes when I stop I can just kind of get myself together and relax now I'm going at a nice rhythm see that it's not fast it's not really slow you know this foot actually says on it you can't go full speed with this machine did you notice how I just kind of had a little wrinkle there so I stopped smooths it out and off I go again and I'm just going to roll until I get down to the bottom of that quilt there we go and I'm stopping off on the batting and so I start on the batting and I stopped on the batting so I don't have to do any securing I can just cut my thread raise my presser foot let's bring it up here so that you can see this so isn't that a beautiful curve lovely now sometimes we can cross those curves isn't that beautiful that forms these beautiful ribbons on this and it's really easy to do just let it go there you go we can also do these lovely orange peel designs this is typically a free motion quilting design but we can do it with our walking foot really simple we have to do a tiny bit of marking so here's my sample and I've got it marked already notice that it I have a grid and this is perfect with a gridded piece that already has those same size squares and I've marked at the center of each square 1/2 inch out from the middle of each square see that middle of each square I'm going to take it to the Machine and I'm going to sew a gentle s-curve using those dots as my marks watch I'm going to start here and I'm going to wrap around that dot come back to the intersection wrap around the dot see that beautiful s-curve so let's do that right to the machine I'm going to set right up at that intersection and azio looking at that dot where you look is where you quilt right back into the intersection right out to the dot right to the intersection notice that I'm going nice and even really even seed really even and done beautiful s-curve there it is I'm going to do that s-curve on both sides just like this to form those beautiful cables and then I have to do it in the opposite direction and I'm going to mark those half inches just like that and I'm going to sew them again and look what I'm going to get this beautiful orange peel design that's usually done on free motion quilting but we can beautifully do it with a walking foot gentle curves are so versatile and can do all sorts of beautiful designs here's another kind of orange peel variation that's done just by changing the marking look at gentle curve serve look at that that's done on a smaller grid look at these beautiful ribbond curves done with a little bit of marking but still gentle look at this one little tiny gentle curves folks the walking foot is such a versatile tool for your quilting once you've got that gentle curve motion down the possibilities are [Music] you

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Keywords: Jacquie Gering, The Modern Quilt Guild, Brother International Corporation, PQ1500SLPRW sewing machine, Northcott, eQulter.com, ribbon curves, organic curves, orange peel quilt design, Fresh Quilting

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Length: 11min 36sec (696 seconds)

Published: Wed Feb 15 2017