You and Jenny Jones are my favorite people. You tell it like it really is and tell everyone it OK to not be perfect. For your style to be your own. You inspire me to inspire others and not just in quilting in life thank you for you. And thank you for making these free videos even when your not well what a trooper. Please take time to feel better we’ll still be here waiting for you. You biggest fan.❤️
Thank you so much for all your work on this project. Sorry you're not feeling well, so be sure to take care of yourself, too. We quilters can be an impatient lot, can't we?! But, to learn from such a talented, patient quilter, we should all be grateful and excited!
"I"m not a perfectionist, so if it's not perfect, it's totally fine. " With this one sentence, you have won a viewer for life! Thank you for encouraging the non- perfectionists out there, Angela! Your end results are spectacular and you're probably a lot more relaxed at the end of the day with this attitude!
Love this quilting chick! I never thought I would be able to FMQ, but have learned watching all her videos. Her personality and enthusiasm are awesome!!!
I have a tendency to go faster than the machine and it looks like it so I now close my eyes and Iisten only to you and your machine and get that quiet rhythm in my head for 5 min then start my practice works every time. Thank you.
I am going through all your First FM Challenge videos one at a time. Yesterday I purchased fabric to make slanted squares quilt top. I may be late, but I plan to watch and learn followed by lots of practicing. Thanks so much for your teaching and sharing!
I never thought of framing a block like you demonstrated. I echo quilt a lot, but the frame makes whatever you put in the block special. This is a great series , Angela. Thank you for doing it on a domestic machine.
Oh I could tell you were sick even before you said, hope your better by now. This flu season is kicking all our butts. I've been lucky though, I've stayed away from it and been successful. I've been baking and quilting. When spring gets here I'm going to have to walk to get this extra weight off. Winter has been so messy here I've stayed in. Love meandering. It's the lacy effect it gives that I like on my quilts but yet the easiest. Have a great day!
Great video. Right now I am away from home helping my daughter with our first grandson. While I hate the thought of leaving my beautiful little grandbaby boy, at the same time I am excited to get home and begin my fmq challenge with everyone. Wishing everyone fun and happy stitching.
Angela, I just want to say thank you, thank you, thank you! You have given me such excitement that it is so hard to describe. I just finished quilting a crib quilt! Yay me! I've watched your videos about five times (ok more), listening, taking notes and then diving right in. Yes, it was very difficult at first, but I didn't give up, thanks so much for the encouragement.
Angela, this is SUCH a great idea. There are SO MANY 'Quilt-Along's on the internet, but that's to make a quilt top. We NEEDED something like this, to practice our Free Motion Quilting so we can FINISH all of those quilt tops, right? Right! Thank you so much for setting this up. I can't wait until I get myself a new cell phone with a data plan, so I can take pictures and post them... and participate in all of your contests! ~Diana from Canada
I'll add my feel better wishes to everyones. I love how your designs always look so good but for the most part are fairly simple and with a little practice I can do them. Not as well as you but I'll keep practicing! The other thing I love about your videos is that you do make little bobbles and you just go on saying close is enough is good enough. It helps keep it real for those of us who make lots of bobbles. Thank you for sharing your talent with us.
I agree, it helps seeing you quilt and describing as you go along. Thank you for this challenge!Tell your kids to keep their germs to themselves, or stop giving them kisses! At least that where I pick up germs.
Fantastic Angela. You have given me such confidence as a newbie to FMQ. Nearly finished my first quilt and although not perfect I am very happy with it.
I really love your teaching style. You break things down and make the designs easy to learn and remember. Ill be sure to use these techniques when quilting my bags!! Thank you so much! 😘
I love, love, love your videos. I have wanted to figure out how to start quilting now that I have learned to cut fabrics and sew them together and this is very helpful. Thank you for being such a great teacher.
Great video series, Angela! So much helpful information, especially what not to worry about! Hope you’re feeling better by now - looking forward to another class from you at QuiltCon!
I want to enter the challenge but I do not know how to post a photo. I quilted on a long-arm and tried some swirls on a queen size quilt on a rented machine. 15 hours later.....I finished! Whoooo! What an adventure! I was all over the place. I made every mistake you talk about but I finished it. I used one of your patterns from The Midnight Quilt Show. I want to show you. How do I get a photo to the contest? It was like ice skating fast when I wanted to go slow. From a distance it looks ok! Leigh Ann
What would you recommend for someone who doesn't have a big throated machine like you do? Say a 6.5" or maybe 7"space from the needle to the right side of the machine. I have downloaded the pattern and been finishing a ton of UFO so I'd have something to at least start with. SO happy that these are still on the youtube for us slow starters. LOL
Hope you feel better soon - that Hot Toddy bourbon sounds like it’s the perfect remedy 😉 thanks for another fun video - it’s my goal to start this weekend !!
Thank you so much for making these videos! I finally got a chance to try echoing and stippling, and am rather excited about it. I am going to auction off the quilt I am making, to help raise money for the NAMI walk I will be in on September 15th. (Trying to raise $20,000 for them by then.)
Hello Angela, I'm in Germany and a newbie on Quilting! I have a question: How can you recognize the print on the quilt fabric ? I have a Pfaff Maschine and i need to change that everytime, but I'm not sure if it is ok ! You are amazing on teaching quilting. I am very happy that I found you here. Thanks a lot for your help.
I was wondering the same thing myself. I am not sure where ti start- I am kinda thinking it doesn’t matter. This way- ours will all be slightly different..
Years ago (probably 20 years) I took a quilting class. I seem to remember that there were suggested adjustments to the machine settings before starting to quilt. Obviously, the feed dogs are lowered. Do you make any other changes to the machine settings (tension, presser foot pressure, etc.) before you start machine quilting? Thank you.
Are you going to quilt in the white triangles around the pink squares? I’m using a different quilt top so I just want to know if I need to mark off those triangles.
Are you starting your quilting in the middle of the quilt or can you start anywhere? Do you have a stitch regulator on your machine? How do you gather the quilt as you sew? What name brand machine do you have? Love your videos and hope you feel better.
I believe that is a Handiquilter machine and I don't think they have stitch regulators. It appears she has started somewhere near the middle. You just stuff and fluff the quilt so there is no tension on the section under the needle where you are quilting.
I've been waiting anxiously all day for this!! So excited it came. I was sure that you would go around the perimeter of the block first. Will it mess up the rest of the lessons if I do go around the outside edge of the block? I LOVE to watch (and listen!) while you quilt. Really inspires me.
Hello ! I have almost the same doubt Anne has. I would like to know when it is aproprieted to stitch in the ditch around the blocs. Thanks in advance for your answer.
Any tips on what our thread tension should be set at?? And should we start with a block in the middle or an edge block - does it matter where in the quilt we start?
When you meander around, do you keep any shapes in your mind? Kind of like a meander typing pad...."wonky heart" or "drunken backwards E"...I've watched others teach a meander pattern and sometimes they mention some basic "shapes" that they keep in mind. The shapes I see in your meandering have their own unique flair. Or do you not try to think of shapes at all? Do you just go where the needle tells you to?
I think of going ever direction except the way that I want to. Does that make sense? If I want to go left, I make myself to in every other direction first.
I would like to start the challenge. When I go to links listed to get info on block size etc, it tells me that website is impersonating your site. What should I do?
Angela, could you please clarify if we should be using #fmqchallenge or #freemotionchallenge. Facebook and your video seems to be different. My daughter and I are having fun learning to free motion. Thanks so much for posting this challenge.
Ok...when you first started with your stitches in place, did you press the “reenforcement stitch” button? I have that on my new machine and wondered what I would use it for. Lol
You should learn it, it just takes a little practice!! I am using the HQ Stitch 710. Here's a link to more information about it: quilting-is-my-therapy.myshopify.com/collections/hq-stitch-sewing-machines/products/hq-stitch-710-sewing-machine
You and Jenny Jones are my favorite people. You tell it like it really is and tell everyone it OK to not be perfect. For your style to be your own. You inspire me to inspire others and not just in quilting in life thank you for you. And thank you for making these free videos even when your not well what a trooper. Please take time to feel better we’ll still be here waiting for you. You biggest fan.❤️
Awwww! I'm glad to do it! Thanks for watching!
Thank you so much for all your work on this project. Sorry you're not feeling well, so be sure to take care of yourself, too. We quilters can be an impatient lot, can't we?! But, to learn from such a talented, patient quilter, we should all be grateful and excited!
And you so much Angela! Excited to practice, practice, practice! Hope you are feeling better soon 😎
"I"m not a perfectionist, so if it's not perfect, it's totally fine. " With this one sentence, you have won a viewer for life! Thank you for encouraging the non- perfectionists out there, Angela! Your end results are spectacular and you're probably a lot more relaxed at the end of the day with this attitude!
Love this quilting chick! I never thought I would be able to FMQ, but have learned watching all her videos. Her personality and enthusiasm are awesome!!!
I have a tendency to go faster than the machine and it looks like it so I now close my eyes and
Iisten only to you and your machine and get that quiet rhythm in my head for 5 min then start my practice works every time. Thank you.
I am going through all your First FM Challenge videos one at a time. Yesterday I purchased fabric to make slanted squares quilt top. I may be late, but I plan to watch and learn followed by lots of practicing. Thanks so much for your teaching and sharing!
I never thought of framing a block like you demonstrated. I echo quilt a lot, but the frame makes whatever you put in the block special. This is a great series , Angela. Thank you for doing it on a domestic machine.
Oh I could tell you were sick even before you said, hope your better by now. This flu season is kicking all our butts. I've been lucky though, I've stayed away from it and been successful. I've been baking and quilting. When spring gets here I'm going to have to walk to get this extra weight off. Winter has been so messy here I've stayed in. Love meandering. It's the lacy effect it gives that I like on my quilts but yet the easiest. Have a great day!
So excited to have you teaching free motion quilting!!!!
Great video. Right now I am away from home helping my daughter with our first grandson. While I hate the thought of leaving my beautiful little grandbaby boy, at the same time I am excited to get home and begin my fmq challenge with everyone. Wishing everyone fun and happy stitching.
Awwww, I hear that Grandbabies Re the best!!! Good luck with the quilting!
Angela, I just want to say thank you, thank you, thank you! You have given me such excitement that it is so hard to describe. I just finished quilting a crib quilt! Yay me! I've watched your videos about five times (ok more), listening, taking notes and then diving right in. Yes, it was very difficult at first, but I didn't give up, thanks so much for the encouragement.
Angela, this is SUCH a great idea. There are SO MANY 'Quilt-Along's on the internet, but that's to make a quilt top. We NEEDED something like this, to practice our Free Motion Quilting so we can FINISH all of those quilt tops, right? Right! Thank you so much for setting this up. I can't wait until I get myself a new cell phone with a data plan, so I can take pictures and post them... and participate in all of your contests! ~Diana from Canada
I'll add my feel better wishes to everyones. I love how your designs always look so good but for the most part are fairly simple and with a little practice I can do them. Not as well as you but I'll keep practicing! The other thing I love about your videos is that you do make little bobbles and you just go on saying close is enough is good enough. It helps keep it real for those of us who make lots of bobbles. Thank you for sharing your talent with us.
Just remember, there is no such thing as perfection in free-motion quilting!!
I knew from the minute I heard your voice something was up. Hope you are ok..NO FLU for you and the family....you are a trooper. Tks for video.
Thank you so much Angela for all your time to help us, love watching you.
Awww, I'm glad to do it! I want everyone to love quilting as much as I do!
Hi Angela, hope you're feeling loads better, flu season is bad here in cold rainy England too. I do enjoy your videos, thank you. Take care, blessings
Ugh, I still don't have my voice back to 100%.......I don't like not being able to talk!
I agree, it helps seeing you quilt and describing as you go along. Thank you for this challenge!Tell your kids to keep their germs to themselves, or stop giving them kisses! At least that where I pick up germs.
Angela I think you are so Awesome! You have an Amazing way if teaching and I am sooooooo Grateful. thank you so very much for all your caring!
You were born to do this! Great video tutorial. Thanks!
Im learning how to do the FMAQ, and you are so instrumental in that process. Your work is perfection, and your teaching is excellent. thank you
I just got my fmq foot and I have been practicing and thought it would be easy but it is not just doing practice samples. You make it look so easy.
Hope you feel better soon. Thank you for the videos - you are the best and explain everything so well!
Fantastic Angela. You have given me such confidence as a newbie to FMQ. Nearly finished my first quilt and although not perfect I am very happy with it.
Love your positive attitude in your instructions. It is so encouraging. Thank you
Girl that voice sounds like its a little raw. Thanks for the great video. You are really helping me with this craft I love so much.
I loved your scratchy voice Angela! That home quilt is gorgeous! I love the echo tip for enhancing the design.
OK, I enjoyed that. I have meandered many quilts but have wanted to move on to something else. Thank you for starting this project.
I really love your teaching style. You break things down and make the designs easy to learn and remember.
Ill be sure to use these techniques when quilting my bags!! Thank you so much! 😘
I love, love, love your videos. I have wanted to figure out how to start quilting now that I have learned to cut fabrics and sew them together and this is very helpful. Thank you for being such a great teacher.
Thank you for your support!! I can't tell you how much it means to me!
Thank you for so generously sharing your talent and tips with all of us!
Thank YOU for watching!
I love the meandering! It looks like coral!
Great video series, Angela! So much helpful information, especially what not to worry about! Hope you’re feeling better by now - looking forward to another class from you at QuiltCon!
Yay!! Be there soon!!!
I want to enter the challenge but I do not know how to post a photo. I quilted on a long-arm and tried some swirls on a queen size quilt on a rented machine. 15 hours later.....I finished! Whoooo! What an adventure! I was all over the place. I made every mistake you talk about but I finished it. I used one of your patterns from The Midnight Quilt Show. I want to show you. How do I get a photo to the contest? It was like ice skating fast when I wanted to go slow. From a distance it looks ok! Leigh Ann
You are always so encouraging. Love your videos. Feel better and take care.
Always learn something from your videos. Thank you.
hope you are feeling better-great video-thanks so much-seems I am doing things better than I thought I was-I am my own worst critic!
I love your videos. Free motion is my favourite part of quilting. I'm looking forward to this challenge.
Fantastic lesson! Get well Angela xxx
Thanks, Angela. Seeing you do this really helps.
"We're trying not to pee our pants." You are hysterical. I laughed out loud! I love you! lol
Thank you! Just what I need to get started.
Hope you feel better soon. Thanks for this great quilt along!
Thank you for participating!!!!
I like the echoing the block! Thank you.
What would you recommend for someone who doesn't have a big throated machine like you do? Say a 6.5" or maybe 7"space from the needle to the right side of the machine. I have downloaded the pattern and been finishing a ton of UFO so I'd have something to at least start with. SO happy that these are still on the youtube for us slow starters. LOL
Watching you quilt is so unbelievably relaxing...
You give me so inspiration . Thank you.
I'm excited for this series. It really does help to see it in real time.
I've gotten quite good at meandering over the last few years and it's my fall-back design because it's fast and easy.
mine too! I have to force myself to do other things, which is why I joined the challenge!
Yay!! Then you are going to love next week's video.....continuous curve!
I'm so excited to learn from you! My rulers came in today so I'm ready. Hot apple juice with cinnamon is great for a sore throat. Get well soon!
What a good idea! I'm going to try that!
Thanx for the reply, I will have to check into them.
Thanks for the video and I hope you are not catching a cold.
God Bless You, & Thanks for taking the time to do this for us! You've giving me the incentive to learn FMQ NOW!!!
Thank you so much for all the videos that you do, love them.
Wow! Great learning free motion tutorial
My six year old niece, Lilli, would like to tell you that "you are good at sewing". She loves to watch your videos with me...
Awwww she sounds amazing! Give her a hug from me!
Hope you feel better soon - that Hot Toddy bourbon sounds like it’s the perfect remedy 😉 thanks for another fun video - it’s my goal to start this weekend !!
Is that laryngitis I hear? Love your videos and the free-motion technique even though I'm old-school and quilt by hand.
Thank you so much for making these videos! I finally got a chance to try echoing and stippling, and am rather excited about it. I am going to auction off the quilt I am making, to help raise money for the NAMI walk I will be in on September 15th. (Trying to raise $20,000 for them by then.)
Great info and praying you feel better....
Great tutorial. Hope you are feeling better.
Thank you very much, I gone start right now and try your design.
Thankyou!! This will be fun!! Feel better soon!!
I love to free motion quilting I think of a puzzle piece ,it really works for me I have a older Phaffe it has a smaller neck
Your such a trooper! Feel better!
Thanks Angela ... take care of yourself! ;-)
Thanks, Angela, it was worth waiting for!!!
Don't get too sick, Angela Walters! We need you!!
Awww!!!!! I'm so glad you like the videos!
Angela, what size needle are you using? I will be my FIRST free motion quilt today and I am terrified of messing it up. Thanks
Awesome! It's so easy. Thanks
Barbara Badgett 8
Good explanations! Thanks.
Hello Angela, I'm in Germany and a newbie on Quilting! I have a question: How can you recognize the print on the quilt fabric ? I have a Pfaff Maschine and i need to change that everytime, but I'm not sure if it is ok ! You are amazing on teaching quilting. I am very happy that I found you here. Thanks a lot for your help.
Fantastic Angela, how do I post my blocks, I'm new to this, posting and free motion quilting
Glad you are safe
Love it, Angela. I think breaking it down into small, doable chunks will be so helpful to many of us! Should we start with a middle square?
I was wondering the same thing myself. I am not sure where ti start- I am kinda thinking it doesn’t matter. This way- ours will all be slightly different..
What machine are you using? Thx for all your great videos!
I love watching your videos. I'm having problems seeing where I've already quilted. What do you suggest. I have a closed clear plastic FMQ foot.
I would love to know what machine you using. Thank you.
Great information--thank you!
Great episode! I was just a little worried about peeing my pants ;-) but it's all good! I love the meander inside the echo
Can’t wait for you to ship my items so I can get this put together and get started!
We are packing them as fast as we can 😀
Love 💕 your tutorials. Question...... do I need a special quilting foot to use with your rulers or will the ones I have be Ok?
Would you show us how you end the quilting and hide the threads.
Years ago (probably 20 years) I took a quilting class. I seem to remember that there were suggested adjustments to the machine settings before starting to quilt. Obviously, the feed dogs are lowered. Do you make any other changes to the machine settings (tension, presser foot pressure, etc.) before you start machine quilting? Thank you.
Are you going to quilt in the white triangles around the pink squares? I’m using a different quilt top so I just want to know if I need to mark off those triangles.
What,when and how do you use fusible batting? I do a lot of queen size quilts
Are you starting your quilting in the middle of the quilt or can you start anywhere? Do you have a stitch regulator on your machine? How do you gather the quilt as you sew? What name brand machine do you have? Love your videos and hope you feel better.
I believe that is a Handiquilter machine and I don't think they have stitch regulators. It appears she has started somewhere near the middle. You just stuff and fluff the quilt so there is no tension on the section under the needle where you are quilting.
Do you change your foot everytime you go to a different square?I noticed you started with open toe and now you have the ruler foot?
This is so cool I can’t wait to start I do not have facebook or other social media but I can add comments here is that ok
I've been waiting anxiously all day for this!! So excited it came. I was sure that you would go around the perimeter of the block first. Will it mess up the rest of the lessons if I do go around the outside edge of the block? I LOVE to watch (and listen!) while you quilt. Really inspires me.
Hello ! I have almost the same doubt Anne has. I would like to know when it is aproprieted to stitch in the ditch around the blocs. Thanks in advance for your answer.
I too was sobering about this.
Wondering- silly auto correct!
Anne Dirks did you stitch in the ditch on yours
Yes, I did stitch in the ditch.
ROFL...trying not to pee our pants while quilting!!! You said that completely straight - you made me laugh so hard!!
It's funny because it's true, lol
Any tips on what our thread tension should be set at?? And should we start with a block in the middle or an edge block - does it matter where in the quilt we start?
When you meander around, do you keep any shapes in your mind? Kind of like a meander typing pad...."wonky heart" or "drunken backwards E"...I've watched others teach a meander pattern and sometimes they mention some basic "shapes" that they keep in mind. The shapes I see in your meandering have their own unique flair. Or do you not try to think of shapes at all? Do you just go where the needle tells you to?
I think of going ever direction except the way that I want to. Does that make sense? If I want to go left, I make myself to in every other direction first.
I would like to start the challenge. When I go to links listed to get info on block size etc, it tells me that website is impersonating your site. What should I do?
Angela, could you please clarify if we should be using #fmqchallenge or #freemotionchallenge. Facebook and your video seems to be different. My daughter and I are having fun learning to free motion. Thanks so much for posting this challenge.
Ok...when you first started with your stitches in place, did you press the “reenforcement stitch” button? I have that on my new machine and wondered what I would use it for. Lol
I need to see how you get quilt under the foot. .which block your starting on?
A quick question can I use polyester to practice on or should I be using cotton fabric and thread?
Cotton fabric would be best since it won't stretch, but you can use polyester or cotton thread. Hope that helps!
I will just stock up on Depends.
Hi. Just subscribed. What machine are you using. Wow your really
great at FMQ. I think I want to learn this🌸
You should learn it, it just takes a little practice!! I am using the HQ Stitch 710. Here's a link to more information about it: quilting-is-my-therapy.myshopify.com/collections/hq-stitch-sewing-machines/products/hq-stitch-710-sewing-machine