Step-by-Step Free-Motion Quilting: Turn 9 Simple Shapes into 80+ Distinctive Designs • Best-selling author of First Steps to Free-Motion Quilting
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Christina Cameli
Christina Cameli is an enthusiastic quilting teacher and nurse-midwife. After being introduced to quilting by her grandmother, she learned free-motion quilting and over the next decade began teaching classes and writing books. She lives with her children in Portland, Oregon. christinacameli.com
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Step-by-Step Free-Motion Quilting - Christina Cameli
Wisp
Following are the nine elements that together make up all the designs in this book. I’ve picked simple shapes that are easy to sketch. Keep in mind this idea of sketching. Free-motion quilting for most home quilters is more sketchy than precise. Don’t stress.
CIRCLE
The circle is surely one of the most useful shapes in quilting. Circles have an attractive effect when quilted, and they are quite versatile for filling in space. Are your circles lopsided or oval sometimes? Mine too!
Occasionally you’ll leave a circle open. Sometimes many circles will be joined together into pebbling or pebble lines. These types of designs are described further in Pebbling and Traveling.
CURVING LINES
Lines with gentle curves provide great texture and frequently get us from one place to the next in our designs. These lines don’t need to be precise or perfect. Just head in the direction you want to go and let your line wiggle as much or as little as you’d like.
LOOP
Shaped like a cursive letter e,
loops are well loved by beginning quilters. They are sometimes tall, sometimes squat. You may string together several loops in a row.
DROP
The drop shape is pointed at one end and curved at the other. It can be fat or skinny as needed. Sometimes the point of the drop will be left open. Sometimes a drop will bend to one side. Open drop shapes can be easily joined in a fan arrangement or a vertical column.
SPIRAL
Spirals can take on a lot of looks and are great space fillers. Most often you will make a path into the middle of a spiral, come to a point, and then work your way back out in the open space of the inward spiral path.
If you’re filling a space with a spiral, the spiral should go right up against the first edge you pass. But make sure to leave room along the opposite edge (as well as between the spiral revolutions) to allow space to work back out of the spiral.
Spirals can be just a hint of a whirl or tightly wound, or made skinny by traveling back out along the original inward spiral path. You will often use spirals in rows.
Occasionally, your design will depend on exiting the spiral along the inside or the outside. In these illustrations, the blue line travels along the inside and the red line travels along the outside of the spiral.
LEAF
At its simplest, the leaf design is two gentle