How to Quilt Lima Beans - Free Motion Quilting with Leah Day
Ready to learn a new free motion quilting design? Join Leah Day as she shows you how to quilt Lima Beans 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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Ready to learn a new free motion quilting design? Join Leah Day as she shows you how to quilt Lima Beans on a home sewing machine!
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Hello my quilting friends! My name is Leah Day and welcome to this free motion quilting tutorial for lima beans.
So this design starts out with this lima bean style shape. I guess you could also think of those as kind of like mushrooms, that would work too. And then all you're going to do once you form that shape is you're going to pivot and echo around it. And the emphasis is being on travel stitching just a little bit at where that shape begins. You see how that thread builds up a little bit there that's what you want. That's gonna make it special.
Okay so I've got a little bit of a weird area here in this corner, so I'm gonna
carefully travel stitch and then just swirl around this with an echo or two.
Again, like I said, travel stitching, building up thread there and then put just a few little curving lines in this area to fill it up too. If ever you're in doubt as to how to fill up a weird space, just put your hand on top of the design and break it down. That way you can see what that shape looks like whenever it's split in half or split in a quarter and that is how you're going to fill in the rest of the space.
Okay so now I'm going to swing out and come out with another lima bean style shape swirl around. You notice that I speed up when I do that. I can put my foot down as I'm forming that initial shape. Now I'm going to go a little slower as I travel stitch and then echo around it. Echoing is one of those things that really want to gain the skill for with free motion quilting. It allows you to stitch a perfectly spaced even line all the way around it, parallel. But it's going to take some practice and I think a design like lima bean even if you're a little bit wiggly wobbly and you get a little close like right here. I'm getting a little closer than I want to. That's okay, I think it's still going to end up looking great!
So this design starts out with this lima bean style shape. I guess you could also think of those as kind of like mushrooms, that would work too. And then all you're going to do once you form that shape is you're going to pivot and echo around it. And the emphasis is being on travel stitching just a little bit at where that shape begins. You see how that thread builds up a little bit there that's what you want. That's gonna make it special.
Okay so I've got a little bit of a weird area here in this corner, so I'm gonna
carefully travel stitch and then just swirl around this with an echo or two.
Again, like I said, travel stitching, building up thread there and then put just a few little curving lines in this area to fill it up too. If ever you're in doubt as to how to fill up a weird space, just put your hand on top of the design and break it down. That way you can see what that shape looks like whenever it's split in half or split in a quarter and that is how you're going to fill in the rest of the space.
Okay so now I'm going to swing out and come out with another lima bean style shape swirl around. You notice that I speed up when I do that. I can put my foot down as I'm forming that initial shape. Now I'm going to go a little slower as I travel stitch and then echo around it. Echoing is one of those things that really want to gain the skill for with free motion quilting. It allows you to stitch a perfectly spaced even line all the way around it, parallel. But it's going to take some practice and I think a design like lima bean even if you're a little bit wiggly wobbly and you get a little close like right here. I'm getting a little closer than I want to. That's okay, I think it's still going to end up looking great!
