Free motion quilting or FMQ can be so overwhelming to master on our sewing machine. Hence, we gather some tips that will help us get through and better understand freehand quilting.
Free Motion Quilting Basics
Essential supplies
- Top 5 Free Motion Quilting Essential Items – The Little Mushroom Cap
- Free Motion Quilting Basics: Supplies – A Few Scraps
Prepare your machine
- How to clean your sewing machine 101 – Tarilyn’s Show N’ Tell
- Pamper Your Sewing Machine: a Cleaning Tutorial – So Sew Easy
Feed Dogs
- What Are Sewing Machine Feed Dogs and How Do They Work? – The Spruce Crafts
- Free Motion Quilting: Feed dogs – A Few Scraps
- Do I Have to Drop My Feed Dogs for Free Motion Quilting? – Leah Day
- Free Motion Quilting: My feed dogs don’t drop – Generations Quilt Patterns
Learn the Basics
- Free Motion Quilting: Basics – A Few Scraps
Practice Makes Perfect
- Free Motion Quilting Basics: Practice Stitching – A Few Scraps
- Free Motion Quilting Practice – Quilters Planner
- DIY Free Motion Quilting Practice Tool – Sylvia’s Stitches
What to do when your thread breaks or runs out
- When your thread breaks or runs out – A Few Scraps
- If your thread breaks or your bobbin runs out in the middle of FMQ and there aren’t ends long enough to bury in the inside, what do you do? – Free Motion Project
Reducing Drag
- Quilting shouldn’t be a drag – A Few Scraps
Free Motion Quilting Techniques
Print Tracing
- Free Motion Quilting Technique: Print Tracing – A Few Scraps
- Free-motion quilting with a pattern – Quilting Daily
- 365 Free Motion Quilting Designs – Leah Day
Faux Meandering
- Free Motion Quilting Tips: Faux Meandering – A Few Scraps
Meandering advice
- Meandering advice – A Few Scraps
Video Tutorials
- Quilting 101: How to Free Motion Quilt – Erica Arndt | Confessions of a Homeschooler
- Free Motion Quilting by Patsy Thompson