Easy Free Motion Quilting - New Phone Cord Pattern for Beginners!
Today Leah Day is demonstrating an easy free motion quilting pattern she's calling the New Phone Cord - perfect for beginners! See how to machine quilt this pattern on a home sewing machine!
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Leah Day
Leah Day is an online quilting teacher and founded LeahDay.com in 2009. She teaches quilting online via free YouTube videos and is also a dealer for Grace longarm machines and frames. Her mission is to empower and encourage quilters of all skill levels learn to make beautiful quilts.
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Today Leah Day is demonstrating an easy free motion quilting pattern she's calling the New Phone Cord - perfect for beginners! See how to machine quilt this pattern on a home sewing machine!
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Hello My Quilting Friends! My name is Leah Day and we are starting a new free motion quilting filler design today called New Phone Cord.
So of course, telephone cords are hard to find these days. I can remember being a kid and whenever we would get a new telephone cord, it was always wanting to tangle up so badly.
So you start this design with a wiggly, loopy line and then simply travel, stitch and echo it to expand the design. You can go around it as many times as you want.
Now, I was just doing some ruler quilting, which is why I've got my ruler
free motion quilting with a ruler foot foot attached. But keep in mind that whenever you're ruler quilting, so long as you have your ruler foot attached, you can switch from free motion quilting to ruler quilting seamlessly or break loosely.
I don't know if that's a thing, but you don't have to break thread. You don't have to change feet. A ruler foot is a type, are a style of darning foot. So you can switch nicely and easily from free motion quilting to ruler quilting.
That's exactly what I did.
The downside is a ruler foot is just a little bit harder to see the needle to be able to do that travel stitching. But, you know, with more practice, you're going to get the hang of it. It's not a big deal.
And I really like to see how this is coming together. I think that little loopy line on the inside really looks nice.
Let me talk you through the design one more time. Just you get the hang of it, stitch a wiggly loop line, All the steps to quilting New Phone Cord
and you can make that as long or as wiggly as you want. I could brought that out and filled in that whole corner if I wanted to. No big deal.
Travel stitch along a previously stitched line that could be the edge of your quilting space. That could be a previously, you know, outer stitch line of another new form, cord shape. Anything is fair game with this design.
It's a clustering style design.
So you have to kind of build the designs off of one another and then travel, search and echo again as many times as you want. You could do that five times, two times, one time, totally up to you. There's no right or wrong amount. The number of echoes you add will change the look of the design. So if you only do one, you're going to end up with one. Look, if you do multiple ripples, it's going to look more ripply. So fun stuff. Lots of stuff to play with with this.
So I'm now I've got a little weird area, so I'm just going to kind of stitch my way out with a very narrow New Phone Cord shape and then travel such an echo it. Now I'm out of that weird area and I can form a much bigger shape.
So as for the scale of this design, I did shrink the scale just a little bit because I wanted to fit in multiple repeats of the design into this area.
But understand that you can expand this. You could use it as an all over bed fill, you could use it shrunken down and stitched very, very tiny scale too. So really, anything that you want to do with it, whether it's for an art quilt, a bed quilt, a baby quilt, a throw quilt, it's entirely up to you.
So here is what it looks like when I finished New Phone Cord.
So of course, telephone cords are hard to find these days. I can remember being a kid and whenever we would get a new telephone cord, it was always wanting to tangle up so badly.
So you start this design with a wiggly, loopy line and then simply travel, stitch and echo it to expand the design. You can go around it as many times as you want.
Now, I was just doing some ruler quilting, which is why I've got my ruler
free motion quilting with a ruler foot foot attached. But keep in mind that whenever you're ruler quilting, so long as you have your ruler foot attached, you can switch from free motion quilting to ruler quilting seamlessly or break loosely.
I don't know if that's a thing, but you don't have to break thread. You don't have to change feet. A ruler foot is a type, are a style of darning foot. So you can switch nicely and easily from free motion quilting to ruler quilting.
That's exactly what I did.
The downside is a ruler foot is just a little bit harder to see the needle to be able to do that travel stitching. But, you know, with more practice, you're going to get the hang of it. It's not a big deal.
And I really like to see how this is coming together. I think that little loopy line on the inside really looks nice.
Let me talk you through the design one more time. Just you get the hang of it, stitch a wiggly loop line, All the steps to quilting New Phone Cord
and you can make that as long or as wiggly as you want. I could brought that out and filled in that whole corner if I wanted to. No big deal.
Travel stitch along a previously stitched line that could be the edge of your quilting space. That could be a previously, you know, outer stitch line of another new form, cord shape. Anything is fair game with this design.
It's a clustering style design.
So you have to kind of build the designs off of one another and then travel, search and echo again as many times as you want. You could do that five times, two times, one time, totally up to you. There's no right or wrong amount. The number of echoes you add will change the look of the design. So if you only do one, you're going to end up with one. Look, if you do multiple ripples, it's going to look more ripply. So fun stuff. Lots of stuff to play with with this.
So I'm now I've got a little weird area, so I'm just going to kind of stitch my way out with a very narrow New Phone Cord shape and then travel such an echo it. Now I'm out of that weird area and I can form a much bigger shape.
So as for the scale of this design, I did shrink the scale just a little bit because I wanted to fit in multiple repeats of the design into this area.
But understand that you can expand this. You could use it as an all over bed fill, you could use it shrunken down and stitched very, very tiny scale too. So really, anything that you want to do with it, whether it's for an art quilt, a bed quilt, a baby quilt, a throw quilt, it's entirely up to you.
So here is what it looks like when I finished New Phone Cord.
