Machine quilting on a home sewing machine isn’t intimidating when it is broken down into skills. Take a look at this machine quilting skills inventory, mark off your achievements, then take the rest one at a time. You will be quilting in no time.
- Create a Quilt Sandwich
- Basting
- Pin basting
- Sew basting edges
- Straight Line Stitching with a Walking Foot
- Foundation Quilting (Stitch in the Ditch)
- Decorative Quilting (Grid Quilting)
- Free Motion Quilting
- Continuous lines
- Curves
- Straight
- Designs
- Marking the Quilt Top
- Locking Stitches
- Stopping and Starting
- Stippling
- Feathers
- Echo feathers
- Unmarked feathers
- Stencil
- Packaging the Quilt (getting your big quilt ready to quilt)
- Order of quilting for the designs
- Handling the Quilt
Are there skills on this list you need to work on? Each of these skills are covered in Cindy Seitz-Krug’s online iquilt class Successful Machine Quilting: Basic & Beyond. Take a look:
