How to Quilt Zap and Sizzle on a Home Machine with Leah Day

Hello my quilting friends! My name is Leah Day and welcome to this free motion quilting tutorial for zap and sizzle.

So this design starts out with some zigzags and then you go into a wiggly wobbly drunk spiral. And so right now I am travel stitching my way out and then I can explain the design as I go. So here we go. Zigzag and this is a design I call zippling. It's basically stippling but with straight lines and sharp angles, so it's a lot like stitching lightning bolts and that's really the inspiration for this design. You know electricity and clouds and kind
of all swirling together. I really like it.


All right, so you're going to do a good bit of this you know just basically just zigzagging around with some zippling and that's going to be the design that kind of links everything together. And it's going to be how you fill most of your quilt. Then every once in a while, whenever you're getting bored or you just feel like okay there's enough distance between those nice fluffy clouds, then you're gonna go into one of those shapes. So that is basically just a wiggly wobbly shape - think of an amoeba and then
spiral inside of it, continuing to wiggle and wobble all the way to the inside. Once you reach as far as you can get without stitching back over your stitching, you're going to travel stitch slowly.

Notice how much I slowed down my machine for that travel stitching. You got to go slow in order to keep it nice and neat. Okay once you get out and you can get back to your zippling, that's what you're going to do.

And that is how you stitch zap and sizzle!