Walking Foot Curves: Quilting a curved design using your walking foot

[Music] hi i'm elliann and today i'll talk about how you can make walking foot curves these are curves that you're sewing on your machine to add a really nice quilting texture using your walking foot i am using a walking foot function that's built into my machine but if you don't have that make sure you have your walking foot on your machine i'm also using some quilting thread that's cotton and i've set my stitch length to a three that's what i like to use when i'm quilting you'll also notice i'm wearing gloves these are machine quilting gloves they have little rubber pieces on them which really help me to grip my quilt making it easier as i'm moving through those curves the first thing that i've done is i've marked a grid on my piece that i'm going to quilt my squares are three inches wide and three inches long they're squares and i've already marked them and i've actually sewn them down this type of quilting uses your grid already marked down making it a lot easier to sew the curves my walking foot function foot has a half an inch width from the end of my needle to the end of the foot i'm going to use this as my guide for sewing my curves so i'm not going to do any marking on the rest of this quilt i'm going to start my quilt curves right on a point or on the edge of my quilt if that's where i'm starting what i'm going to want to do is go from one point to the other but add a gentle curve within it right around right around the middle of my piece is where i want to hit the widest spot for me that's going to be half an inch or the edge of my foot so i'm going to start by sewing that gentle curve right around the middle you'll see that i'm at right about that half inch mark when i reach the corner i'm going to keep going in a gentle motion this time on the other side of my line again once i reach right about the middle should be right about half an inch away from my line and i'm going to start carving it back in you want to continue in this sort of serpentine motion all the way across your quilt top so once once i've done one line of stitching i'm going to go back and do the other side to really finish off that beautiful walking foot curve every time i'm trying to hit that center spot and being the widest point away that's what's going to make that beautiful curve on both sides look really nice and even [Music] so if you don't feel super comfortable just eyeballing it you can always use a hair marker to make a line or you can always use a water soluble marker or a chalk pencil as well just gives you that guiding point to be able to hit it every time once you've done all of the lines all the way across this way we're also going to want to do them the other side i'll show you what that'll look like you'll see that my hands are moving as i'm moving they're helping to guide i'm not pushing or pulling though i really want the walking foot to do its job but i'm helping to gently guide at any point feel free to stop and reposition your hands so they're always in a good spot as i near this corner i really want to make sure that i'm hitting it properly that's what's going to make all of the lines look really beautiful once they're finished [Music] and again we're going to go on the other [Music] side [Music] look at that intersection curve using your walking foot it's a really fun technique to try

Channel: Patchwork and Poodles

Views: 1,144

Rating: 5 out of 5

Keywords: quilting, learn to quilt, sewing, sewing tutorials, quilting tutorials, quilting diy, patchwork and poodles, modern quilting, modern quilt, quilt pattern, easy quilt, quilting for beginners, quilt binding, quilt patterns, quilt tutorials, quilting tutorial, quilt, machine quilting, walking foot, walking foot quilting, quilting at home, quilting curves, walking foot curves, walking foot quilting on your machine, how to quilt, how to quilt curves, how to sew curves

Id: MKL7hRO6FbA

Length: 5min 25sec (325 seconds)

Published: Sun Feb 21 2021