Machine Quilting Skills Inventory

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:

 

 

Visit her class here.