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Craftsy Month – Quilting with Rulers on a Home Machine

Quilting with Rulers 5This post is part of Craftsy Review Month on Sew Sweetness. To see schedule of all posts, click here! This post may contain affiliate links. Read the full disclosure here. Today’s post is from Aylin of AylinNilya. Check out her blog and follow her on Instagram!

Glad to be here with you on Saras – Sew Sweetness Craftsy Review Month. When she asked me to test a tutorial on craftsy I knew from the beginning what theme I would chose. This was a great chance to try a tutorial on free motion quilting. I looove sewing and piecing, but quilting my finished project always make me panic. I am always afraid to ruin it at the end ;-). Well, so this was a great opportunity to check a new technique of quilting – Quilting with Rulers on a Home Machine with Amy Johnson.

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After making my first own quilting video for a German craft platform last December, I was watching this video much more carefully. Amy is a great host of the tutorial. She talks and explains very clear and I enjoyed watching her technique. She shows this technique looking so easy and smooth and gives great tips.

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To try her technique you really need a Ruler Foot. This is a special foot that makes it possible to lead a ruler next to the foot without slipping under or over the foot while quilting. Unfortunately I was not able to find a foot like this for my machine, because my machine dealer was not really ambitious to help me – Amy gives a lot of hints to find the foot for your machine, but I will not give up to find a proper foot that fits to my machine., because I really want to try this.

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Also you need thicker rulers than the usual quilting rulers – straight and with curves or special shapes, but when you have seen the video you really want to try all these pattern with different rulers. To begin without buying new rulers she also explains how to make your own do-it-yourself templates to start with. I tried to glue some sliding pads under my ruler to get it higher and held it to my normal quilting foot, but this didn´t work well because my foot a plastic foot and I didn´t dare to press the ruler against the plastic to not break it.

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She begins with stitching in the ditch lines holding a straight ruler on every side of the foot and ends up with a combination of straight lines and curves with a ruler and some free motion quilting without in the free spaces. She starts easy and gives you homework to improve your technique from one lesson to the next.

I was almost angry that I could not try her technique at once, just because I didn´t have the right foot, but I was really inspired to try new things on my next project. Just give it a try and see the possibilities in Free-Motion with Rulers. I am sure you will see projects of me with great quiltings on it as soon as I got my foot!

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4 thoughts on “Craftsy Month – Quilting with Rulers on a Home Machine

  1. Terry Stein says:

    I would like to make the strap clutch but is not possible to download the pattern any more, could you please send it to me?

  2. Val Shepley says:

    I am waiting to receive this special foot, along with a selection of rulers, from The Cotton Patch in the UK. These rulers and feet are made by Westlee Rulers of Australia. There are lots of tutorials on You Tube using these, here is the address and she gives lots of contact and blog information.

  3. Andrea_R says:

    I have this class and love it. It’s really kicking my quilting up a notch.

  4. http://lappetausa2.blogspot.no/
    Hey! I hope it is ok that I linked to your blog, and also copied a photo. In Norway we are about to start a City Samler Sew along.
    Elin.

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