How to Free Motion Quilt Night Storm Design #520 with Leah Day
It's time for another free motion quilting design! Tackle the Night Storm design with Leah Day as she shows you how to make this fabulous motif 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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It's time for another free motion quilting design! Tackle the Night Storm design with Leah Day as she shows you how to make this fabulous motif on a home sewing machine.
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So this is a fairly complex design but it starts out with something really
simple and that is this zigzaggy stem. So that's the first thing you want to
quilt, and then you're going to stitch a teardrop shape and then you're going to stitch bouncy echoes. You're just going to bounce out and then bounce back in - it's just a real quick movement bouncing outward, bouncing inward.
And you're bouncing when you swing outward you're bouncing against either the edge of your quilting space or another Night Storm design that you've already stitched, another element on your quilt. It could also just simply be that you come to a certain point like right here and you bounce
back and that works too.
That's about the most confusing part of it, is about when to do your bounces. You just don't want you to get those arches too big. When they start to get too large they can get a little unwieldy and it's hard to keep them consistent. So I'd aim for depending on your scale only about um yeah just keep it where it's just not going to get too wide and unwieldy and starts to get a little bit wiggly wobbly. That is going to be a sign to tell you okay you need to bring that in a little bit and shrink it down some.
All right, so now I am turning a corner and I do that just simply by pivoting
off the tip of that lightning bolt back and forth, swinging around careful,
travel stitching occasionally. Then now I'm going to bring these bouncy echoes down and into this little pocket. As you can see iIm just kind of
wrapping those around that lightning bolt. The idea is this is kind of the texture of night and it's a storm. The lightning bolt is creating electricity and we've just got this absolutely gorgeous texture created from that inspiration.
You are going to have little weird areas, strange pockets fill those up with gentle curves. That's going to be your best bet. And once you get that completely finished, then zigzag off in another direction to form another night storm shape.
