MEANDER QUILT PATTERN HOW TO

MEANDER QUILT PATTERN HOW TO

The book does a beautiful job of not only showing how to make a swirl, but how to build them into an all-over meander. I have finally figured out how to use the width of my open-toe free-motion foot to help me gauge a consistent space, but I’m still not really happy. It’s a bit of a revelation to me actually, to figure this out.

I’m fully focused and (somewhat) relaxed and I’m swirling away when about four swirls in, I start to get a little bored, so I ever-so-slightly start to speed up and things quickly get sloppy (as you can see in the photo above). And texture hides a multitude of quilting missteps.īut that consistent spacing is my problem. This consistency becomes texture in an overall quilt design. The number one tip that I have heard from Angela Walters on quilting swirls (and quilting in general) is to keep the spaces between the lines consistent. But they just don’t get any easier for me. I practiced on paper, and this is not my first time around the block with swirls. Angela does a wonderful job of showing you how to form them in a very step-by-step way. And they are deceptively hard! Let’s back up here. This week we are tackling Swirls and Swirl Hooks. I am finding that even 15 minutes really builds skill, and let’s face it, it often ends up being quite a bit more than 15 minutes once I get going. We would love it if you grabbed a copy of the book and spent just 15 minutes a day building up your free motion quilting skills. Here we are on week 2 of the Free Motion Meandering blog hop with fellow quilters and bloggers Jen and Vicki.

Meander quilt pattern