Learn to Use a Free-Motion Quilting Foot and More

Free-motion quilting is a technique that often is intimidating to beginning quilters. Trust us, you don’t need courage to attempt free-motion quilting, only practice! Here’s the best way to practice; the stitches are completely camouflaged by textured fabric. It’s the perfect testing ground for this specialty technique, using a quilting foot.

Watch Nancy Zieman demonstrate this technique plus others during the final episode of  Fancy Footworks 2, on The Best of Sewing With Nancy. 

A Close-up Look at the Free-Motion Quilting Foot

The Free-Motion Quilting Foot Characteristics (We’re showing the Big Foot):

A shorter shank allows the foot to ride slightly above the fabric.
The large opening in the needle area gives a clearer view of the stitching.
Big Foot, a transparent saucer-like foot, easily glides over several thickness of fabric.

 

Choose a fun cotton fabric print with spaces between the print images.
Place a layer of Stitch & Steam  behind the fabric and pin the two fabrics together. ( Stitch & Steam  shrinks up to 30%—it’s the key element in no-fear free-motion quilting!)

Set your sewing machine for a straight stitch and lower your feed dogs.
Guide fabric with your hands, stitching squiggles or shapes comparable to traditional “puzzle-pieces.” Use matching thread. (We chose contrasting thread for demonstration purposes.)

When finished, apply steam using a steam iron, and the fabric magically shrinks creating a beautiful permanent texture.

There’s more on the TV show!

Three additional presser feet are featured in Fancy Footworks 2 Part Three. Tune in and see the Bias Binding Foot—designed to assist in stitching bias tape on the edge of fabric, Sequins’ N Ribbon Foot—tames unruly trims like sequin tape, ribbon, or even rick rack, and the Buttonhole Foot.

Watch  F ancy Footworks 2   ( Part One , Part Two  and  Part Three)  on The Best of  Sewing With Nancy  online.

Now that you are acquainted with these assorted presser feet, which one will you try first? Let us know in the comments for a chance to win the Ultimate Fancy Footworks book from Nancy’s Notions.

 

Happy Sewing and Quilting,

Team Nancy Zieman

Nancy Zieman Productions. LLC.

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