Walking Foot Quilting - Curved Designs with On Williams Street

hi i'm kimmy with on william street and we are here to help you become a more confident quilter from the piecing to the quilting and everything in between this week we're going to talk about some fun curved walking foot quilting ideas so if you checked out our other videos we do have one video that's all on like very beginner walking foot quilting motifs um they're based on a grid system super easy to put in we also have another one that has a little bit more of some advanced um not really advanced but as you get going and get more comfortable we have some other fun designs you can do but they all use straight lines so we thought it would be fun this week to show you a couple different options you can do that actually have curved lines and these are we're going to do a little bit of marking on these on one of them but the other one will actually go ahead and freehand i'm going to show you how to kind of move that around the quilt and move it around the shape to get those nice smooth curves without having to take a whole lot of time to mark the quilt ahead of time so um the supplies that you're going to need is obviously we're going to need a walking foot we're gonna do all these with our walking foot just on our regular domestic machine so the nice thing about a walking foot is that it does move all of your top and your bottom layers together so it's going to help a little bit it's not going to push the fabric and it's going to give you a little bit of a nicer finish in the finished top um also it's going to be on your domestic so you don't need any fancy machines for this you don't need any great big systems you can definitely do these and finish out your quilts using some of these motifs we're also going to need a marking pen for one of them we just have a heat erase pen and this one it can be any kind of a marking pen that you like they have like hair bone markers if you don't want to put an actual line on your quilt you've got heat erase pens you've got chalk lines find something that works for you just definitely make sure that you test it first if it does um if it is a pen or chalk or something to make sure it's going to come out we're also going to need some ways to make some different circles and there's a lot of things you can do with this just depending on the size of your quilt the one we're going to do one of them that without any marking but on the one we're going to mark we're going to need a couple different circles and i've got a spool of thread here i've got a cup lids whatever works to fit the space that you're going and i'll kind of show you how to decide what size you want that to be here in just a moment so a couple of real basic supplies so go ahead and grab those and we will show you how to go ahead and mark the design first and then how to stitch it out and we're also going to stitch it with very little moving around so it's going to be a real continuous line design so you have to worry about stopping and starting a whole bunch as well so the first design that i'm going to show you this is going to be a fun design that you can put in squares so i'm going to go ahead and put in all of these different squares and i'm going to use the same motif and we are going to want to mark this out first i'm or at least i am because i'm going to do a little bit of a bigger arch with this so i'm going to take my cup and what i decided is i just put it on so that it meets corner to corner and then see about how far out it goes i don't want it to go past this halfway point i want it to fall somewhere in the middle of the block here and it doesn't have to be an exact fit but like i said just somewhere bef in that center area of the the block we don't want it to go across the halfway point and then i'm going to go ahead and draw my line around it and then just match it up on the other and you're going to see that it overlaps that previous arch that's totally okay that is what we want it to do i'm going to do all four sides and i'm going to show you how you can actually stitch this out real nice and easy without stopping too much so i'm going to mark that same thing in all of these squares here on the end where i don't have the full thing i'm going to mark here but then i'm going to come in here and i'm going to mark this as if it was a whole square and so i'm only going to go ahead and stitch out half of it there i'm also going to do it in here but this one it was too big of a circle so it's not giving me as much of an arch as i wanted so i'm going to pull in a little bit of a smaller circle and just play around with the circle shapes that you've got no need to get anything fancy for this we all have an assortment of circle objects in our houses so with this on the little triangles because i'm putting the arches in the squares i'm just going to go ahead and use my walking foot to just stitch in the ditch around those i'm not going to worry about putting anything inside of those shapes so you can see we now kind of have the same shape and it's going to rotate so all of these i'm going to go ahead and mark all of these out the same way [Music] okay so now that it's all marked you can also start to see some of these other fun shapes that are coming out you can see kind of always these flower type shapes that go around the center sections and it starts to really create some fun motifs with these arches one thing to keep in mind is the farther in your arch goes the more um overlap you're going to have here so these ones they don't go out as far so they only have a little bit of an overlap so depending on the look that you want if you want a lot of overlap make sure that it's coming almost to the middle but if you don't don't want as much overlap then make it be a little bit of a smaller arch there and that's going to help you adjust those looks so now we will go ahead and start stitching out this design so there are a couple different stitch paths i'm going to show you kind of based on what your final quilt looks like what the blocks look like so i'm going to assume that um they're not always going to look exactly like this one so first off with this shape where it's a little more separated from the rest it doesn't really connect to any corners we're going to stitch this one and we're going to stitch this motif all in one continuous length so first thing i'm going to do is any time i'm going to go ahead and go down i am going to pull my back thread up [Music] and hold on to it so that i can bury that later [Music] and not have to worry about those threads getting tangled on the back so i'm going to put it down so that my foot starts right in the corner then you're just going to go ahead and follow your line up around a couple of things if you're having trouble with the walking foot if your stitches are too small if your fabric isn't moving smooth slow down that is one thing to keep in mind the walking foot was not meant to go very quickly due to the nature of what it is so just take your time put on a good book put in a good movie and enjoy the process so after you get to that edge just make sure your needle's down i'm just going to pivot around i'm going to do the next arch again just taking it slow nice curves you have to kind of pick up and move your fabric your foot and move your fabric as needed for some of the smaller arches go for it and then work your way into this next corner and you're stopping just right inside that corner as close as you can possibly get then we're going to flip our quilt around and do the next arch one more and that one is done so with this you don't necessarily have to stop here if i was doing this on my actual quilt i would then go on a big quilt i would then just go to and i would use the ditches and i'm going to stitch right along that ditch to get to the next space that i need to be in and i would actually go back and go around all of these little triangles stitched in the ditch as well anyway so that's not going to be a problem for me to go ahead and move around those okay so for the next motif where they connected the corners i'm actually going to stitch it in lines along it and so it's going to be a lot more it's going to move along the quilt a lot easier there's going to be less turning so that's going to be especially nice on the domestic machine where you don't want to be flipping your machine around your quilt around a whole bunch so we're going to start here on this arch and come in right to the corner and then you can see i'm already now primed to go ahead and rotate my quilt just a little bit and do the next one and then of course just keep going this is nice because it gets you starting stopping on the ends so you don't have to worry about burying those threads one more half and now that it's off i would just go down to the next one and if you noticed here i did start in the middle and i'm going to do this middle one and work my way up to the edge and it's kind of nice to work quilts from the middle out it's going to make sure that any extra fabric is going to get pushed to the outside and not stuck in the inside somewhere it also means that i'm only ever going to have half the quilt underneath the machine so after i turn this if this was a nice big quilt i only have to worry about this half and i would finish all of these out and then i could turn the quilt around and finish out this half of the quilt so you don't ever have the whole bulk of the quilt underneath the machine at any time and that's just going to make it easier to maneuver on a domestic sewing machine especially if you have a smaller throats [Music] then when you're done with them all in the one direction you're going to go ahead and go down around the corner and then you're going to repeat that same process across the other direction [Music] so this motif is done you can see even though we did it in rows on these outside ones it still creates the circular motif around the blocks and if you wanted to you could still go through and definitely add you know some stitching in the ditch along these seams to hold those blocks a little bit flatter so now we're going to do the next one and we're actually going to work it very similar to the same way we did the one where we go row to row on that one but it's going to be a little bit different and it's going to give us more of an orange peel look so with this one we're going to do similar to that one where we did it with the rows but we're going to do a soft arch we're going to start on one of these points and we're going to do a soft arch into this point and we're going to go back and forth all the way to the side but then we're going to mimic it on the other side as well so it's going to create like a little orange pill look then we're going to come down and we're going to do this row come down and do this row then we're going to come down around the corner and we're going to do the same thing going in this direction so just back and forth alternate around those lines after we get all of these rows done we're actually going to then come in and we're going to do the diagonals as well so we're going to start out here on the outside corner we're going to come in here then we're going to come out here and then back across this way then we're just going to go ahead and just stitch in the ditch a little bit and that's going to get us to oh we could go around do all the outside points and then when we're done come in and stitch in the ditch a little bit and that's going to get us to this inside section or we can then come in here here work your way all the way around and then just stitch right back out so we're going to be able to go ahead and do this whole thing without ever stopping and breaking thread once oh with this one we're just going to go ahead and start quilting we don't need to worry about marking anything so we can just go at it if your arches aren't totally perfect that's fine once you get the quilt done once you get it washed you're never going to see it anyway so don't stress over that you'll get better as you go along as you practice more so we're going to do a soft arch probably going out about a half of an inch is all from your seam line and then just arch it right back in so it's not going to be as big of a curve as we did on the previous ones then you can see we have a nice little soft arch there then we're just going to do the same thing going on the opposite side and the reason that we switch back and forth and go opposite side is it just seems to be a little bit easier to get a smooth arch than to stop and turn and have to then pivot the fabric and stop and pivot the fabric you can just go right through that seam and keep going and then one more all the way to the end of the block and anytime you can do a lot of lines and seams without having to rotate your quilt a whole bunch is going to be nice and beneficial to make it easier to quilt so now that we're done with that line i am going to turn it around and we are going to go back and we're just going to do the exact same thing but on the opposite side of the line so now that one's done we're gonna go to the next line and there's a couple of ways you can do this if you don't want to have the arches on the outside of the block just go ahead and do a nice straight line right along the edge of the block or if you want to have those arches there as well we're going to do the same thing always going to arch that around coming in about a half of an inch make sure that the um quilt is basted really nicely so when you do this you don't pull and distort your block too much and then same thing and i am stopping about a quarter of an inch inside because that's going to be my seam line or where my binding is going to go and i don't want to lose my quilting so we are stopping in a little bit from where that is oh [Music] and i just realized i missed going down so i'm gonna go back now see it's okay if you don't do things exactly like planned you just figure it out as you go so that we can make sure to get that center line so now that i'm back here i'm gonna go ahead and do this center line and then finish that one and then do these three really quick [Music] so one thing i want to just mention really quick is um where i am right now i do have a couple more rows to go but where i stopped here on this corner if you didn't want to go all if you didn't want to have to come back and do this section later stitch it to the ditch you can actually rotate it and you can do those center ones right now sometimes as you get going you kind of realize that there's a better path that you can go along so i'm going to just do these the same way that i did the other ones i'm going to go all the way from here to the end and then i'm going to turn it around i'm going to curve back and then when i get over to this corner i'll do the same thing and that will get those inside seams without having to worry about stitching in the ditch later so we're going to follow that path and i will go ahead and mark this out inside and a photo in the blog post as well so you don't have to try to remember it i will draw it out for you so now we are back to where we were and we can just carry on and finish out that last scene now we're back to where we started and we'll keep going [Music] all right so we have one last stitch path to do and that's going to be this outside shape so now that i'm here i'm going to go down i'm going to go ahead and do all of the light blue and then i'm going to come back and do the dark blue then i'll go around to this corner come and do the both the light blue do the dark blue work my way around the outside light blue dark blue outside and then work my way back over to where i can finish out finish out over here where i've started and then it will be all done [Music] and this is all done so whenever i'm doing a design like this i always try to find like the easiest way to get through the block without having to stop and start there's usually always a continuous path you can take so i definitely recommend sitting down when you have blocks like this and playing around with it with your fingers sketching out some some different lines and designs and you can use your walking foot to complete simple designs like this very easily and when you find that continuous line it means you're not going to have to worry about stopping and starting and breaking threads and burying them so it just makes it a real nice quick and easy way to finish a quilt out so when you're thinking walking foot quilting it doesn't always have to be straight lines you can easily go ahead and mix it up and throw little gentle curves in there and still easily accomplish those with your walking foot and it just gives a whole new look to the quilts and gives you a whole lot of other options you can use when finishing your quilt tops if you have any questions definitely let us know if you go to the blog post we will have diagrams and things as well so if you want to kind of have a better layout of exactly how to stitch these paths we will show you some different step-by-step photos in the blog post so don't forget to check that out and don't forget to subscribe to our youtube channel hit the bell so you're notified whenever we post a new video and we'll see you next week you

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Length: 22min 57sec (1377 seconds)

Published: Wed Sep 23 2020