How to use a walking foot to create spirals on Fresh Quilting with Christina Cameli (203-2)

[Music] hi I'm Kristina Kelly and I'm here to show you an easy tip for getting nice smooth spiral quilting designs this spiral quilting design can be really fast to stitch up once you know the trick and the trick for me is using a freezer paper circle to get the first circle that you stitch nice and clean I've tried doing the spiral with a walking foot before and it was very hard for me if I just marked the circle right on my quilt top to see where the line that I had marked was and so the first circle that I stitched was kind of bumpy and didn't look at the way I wanted and then I figured out I could do this so you can take any household object that's round like a cup or a bowl and trace around it to get a nice circle on your freezer paper and then the shiny side you'll want to iron down onto the piece that you're working on on your machine you'll have your walking foot set up everybody's walking foot is a little bit different the one that I'm using right here is about a quarter of an inch from where the needle goes down to the edge of the foot and so that's that's the distance that my lines are going to be quilted apart because I'm going to use that edge of the foot as my quilting guide so we'll get this started I'm going to use the freezer paper circle as the guide for stitching the very first circle around so I'm going to go slowly and I'm going to use my hands to pivot the piece as I stitch so just slowly I'm going to do this I've heard it said that this is a walking foot and not a running foot so if you have a speed controller on your sewing machine go ahead and set that set that speed to one of the slower settings so that it doesn't get away from you especially on this on these first inner circles that are pretty tight as far as the size of the circle that you want to start with I would say three to four inches is about right anything smaller than three inches and it's going to be hard to keep your line smooth as you go around this first part okay I'm coming back around to where I started I'm going to make sure that I stitch over the first few stitch the first few stitches that I made in that circle and then I'm going to start breaking away so not following the edge any more still doing the pivot with my hands and I'm going to keep letting it come farther and farther away until the edge of my freezer paper paper circle is right here I want to be following the edge of the last line I stitched right at the edge of my quilting foot [Music] keep going around until it's the size you want [Music]

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Keywords: The Modern Quilt Guild, Christina Cameli, free motion quilting, MemoryCraft 9400QCP, Janome America Inc., freezer paper circle, walking foot

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Length: 3min 31sec (211 seconds)

Published: Thu Aug 10 2017