
How to Quilt on a Small Domestic Sewing Machine with Leah Day
Today Leah Day is machine quilting her autumn tablecloth quilt on a small Singer sewing machine and using Mini Paper Stencils to create a gorgeous quilting pattern. Join her as she shares her best tips and tricks for quilting on a domestic machine!

Instructor
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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Chapters
- 0:00Happy Autumn Quilting!
- 0:24Begin quilting on a small machine
- 0:41Why quilt from the middle?
- 0:55Fun edge-to-edge designs
- 1:28Place & Stitch Mini Stencil
- 1:39Why a Ruler Foot?
- 2:05Quilt suspension system
- 2:17Why I wear gloves
- 2:40Free motion stitches
- 2:51Quilt along the stencil lines
- 3:09Lower the needle
- 3:51Why I don't drop feed dogs
- 4:10Key to better tension!
- 4:26Free motion glider over the feed dogs
- 4:46How to quilt small stitches
- 5:36Spiderweb!
- 5:53Follow the color coding
- 6:15Place & quilt more stencils
- 6:49When to rip the paper away
- 8:15Beautiful fall themed quilting YOU can stitch!
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Today Leah Day is machine quilting her autumn tablecloth quilt on a small Singer sewing machine and using Mini Paper Stencils to create a gorgeous quilting pattern. Join her as she shares her best tips and tricks for quilting on a domestic machine!
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