Quilting for Sit-Down Machines

Award-winning quilt artist David Taylor loves teaching techniques for successful free-motion quilting to beginning quilters on push-through sewing and quilting machines. David quilts on an HQ Sweet Sixteen, but these techniques are also meant for home sewing machines.

You CAN Machine Quilt Successfully

Based on his popular “Yes, You Can Stipple” workshop, David takes quilters through a series of quilting exercises. He teaches that the key to getting perfect, even stitches is based on finding your rhythm, coordinating the speed of the machine with the speed of your hand movements.

Running Tiem: 30 Minutes

Award-winning quilt artist David Taylor is known for the beautiful quilting on his applique quilts, which he quilts using a push-through quilting machine. David quilts on an HQ Sweet Sixteen, but these techniques are also meant for home sewing machines.

His Secrets Revealed

David’s precision techniques and thread choices add dimension and texture to his hand-appliqued pictorial quilts. Learn his secrets for using quilting to bring your pictorial quilts to life.

Running Tiem: 35 Minutes

The HQ Pro-Stitcher is an intuitive computer-guided quilting system designed especially for use with Handi Quilter quilting machines. This DVD is intended for use by HQ Pro-Stitcher owners.

Learn how to:

• Repeat designs in a border

• Quilt piano keys

• Quilt edge-to-edge designs with offset rows

• Quilt clamshells, fish and pumpkin seeds

Running Tiem: 46 Minutes

The HQ Pro-Stitcher is an intuitive computer-guided quilting system designed especially for use with Handi Quilter quilting machines. This DVD is intended for use by HQ Pro-Stitcher owners.

Learn how to:

• Isolate motifs from continuous line designs for use in blocks

• Deal with thread breaks

• Quilt around apppliqué

• Successfully join point-to-point designs

• Resize and rotate triangle designs for a perfect fit

• Quilt motifs that are larger than your machine’s throat space

Running Tiem: 35 Minutes

With Suzanne Michelle Hyland’s unique approach to freehand quilting gives quilters the best of both words: Quick and Easy Freehand Quilting with occasional splashes of delicate Stencilled Designs.

Learn how to:

• Adapt hand-quilting stencils for unique uses in edge to-edge quilting

• Identify portions of stencils for their use with freehand quilting designs

• Practice quilting by drawing first

• Choosing marking tools

• Quick marking methods for stencils

• Effective ways to use and remove chalk

• Plan freehand quilting to cover the entire quilt top

• Avoid the pitfalls of awkward quilting paths

• Make simple “question mark” feather designs

• Choose background quilting designs that complement motifs

1 DVD

Running Time: 28 mins

Quilting without patterns is fast and easy to do and gives the quilt the unique signature of the quilter. Learn Suzanne Michelle Hyland’s simple techniques to ensure success.

Learn how to:

• Determine equal design repeats for borders with NO MATH!

• Quilt simple flower and leaf designs with travel paths

• Quilt borders with no marking

• Quilt side borders without turning the quilt

• Use craft foam as a template to create foundation lines for freehand quilting

• Use undulating lines for a variety of quilting designs

1 DVD

Running Time: 28 mins

There’s more than one way to quickly quilt a border. Consider using pantographs or other printed patterns. Learn Suzanne Michelle Hyland’s simple techniques to ensure success.

Learn how to:

• Use negative space to the quilt’s advantage

• Interrupt designs with ditch-stitching

• Quilt the most difficult design: straight lines

• Reposition hands to stay in control of rulers

• Use your body to stabilize the quilting machine

• Quilt pantograph motifs evenly across the border

• Use starch to aid in quilting accurately

Bonus: Sashing

• Plan symmetrical freehand sashing designs

• Use templates to stitch accurate curves in sashing

1 DVD

Running Time: 39 mins

There’s more than one way to quickly quilt a border. Consider using pantographs or other printed patterns. Learn Suzanne Michelle Hyland’s simple techniques to ensure success.

Learn how to:

• Choose and apply background quilting in appliqué blocks

• Easily create accurate, continuous-line echo quilting

• Use a no-mark technique for effortless cross-hatching

• Use guidelines and reference points to create your own beautiful quilting designs

• Audition and choose the best quilting designs for your quilt

• Use circle and arc templates to quilt accurately

Bonus: Sashing

• Plan symmetrical freehand sashing designs

• Use templates to stitch accurate curves in sashing

1 DVD

Running Time: 31 mins

Learn how to:

• Choose and apply background quilting in appliqué blocks

• Easily create accurate, continuous-line echo quilting

• Use a no-mark technique for effortless cross-hatching

• Use guidelines and reference points to create your own beautiful quilting designs

• Audition and choose the best quilting designs for your quilt

• Use circle and arc templates to quilt accurately

Bonus: Suzanne’s Top Tips

• Suzanne shares some of her best tips for making longarm quilting easy and fun

1 DVD

Running Time: 43 mins

Learn how to:

• Use templates safely to stitch-in-the-ditch

• Pull up the bobbin thread at the end of a quilting line

• Make a “too-small” quilting stencil work

• Create triangle quilting designs from square stencils

• Adapt hand-quilting stencils for continuous- line machine quilting

• Use templates in conjunction with stencils

• Use a proportional scale to resize paper patterns

• Create your own light box using items in your home

• Keep your quilt square in the frame

Bonus: Tried & True Quilting Tools

• Every quilter needs an arsenal of tools. Suzanne shares her favorites

1 DVD

Running Time: 31 mins

Using Pantographs and Groovy Boards (also referred to as pattern boards) for quilting is an easy approach to finishing quilts FAST. Learn Suzanne Michelle Hyland’s simple techniques to ensure success.

Learn how to:

• Choose a pantograph or Groovy Board to suit the quilt

• Set up the pantograph or Groovy Board properly

• Prepare the quilt for quilting

• Plan how to advance the quilt and begin the second pass

• Accurately follow a pantograph with a laser

• Use the stylus and Groovy Board accurately

• Quilt partial pantographs or Groovy Boards

• Avoid pitfalls

1 DVD

Running Time: 36 mins

Using Pantographs for quilting is an easy approach to finishing quilts FAST. Here are some simple techniques that will ensure success.

Learn how to:

• Choose a pantograph to fit your quilt.

• Prepare your quilt top for edge-to-edge quilting (avoiding the dreaded flipped edges).

• Advance the quilt while keeping the second pass perfectly aligned.

• Quilt smoothly and accurately.

• Use partial pantographs to finish the bottom edge of the quilt.

Running Time: 31mins

Using Groovy Boards (also referred to as pattern boards) for quilting is an easy approach to finishing quilts FAST. Here are some simple techniques that will ensure success.

Learn how to:

• Choose a Groovy Board to suit your quilt design.

• Work with single or multiple boards.

• Prepare your quilt top for edge-to-edge quilting (avoiding the dreaded flipped edges).

• Advance the quilt while keeping the second pass perfectly aligned.

• Quilt smoothly and accurately.

• Use partial Groovy Board designs to finish the bottom edge of the quilt.

Running Time: 49mins

Use Continuous Line Designs to complement your quilt and to finish quilting FAST. Here are some simple techniques that will ensure success.

Learn how to:

• Draw your own design.

• Convert your drawings to continuous line quilting designs.

• Draw cherries, dragonflies, snowmen, daisies and rosebuds.

• Plan a travel path between designs.

• Use designs for borders, sashes or overall designs.

• Use four different techniques to transfer your design to fabric.

Running Time: 24mins

It’s easy to see how to quilt the top and bottom borders horizontally with your longarm quilting machine and frame. But what do you do about those side borders?

Learn how to:

• Plan border designs to complement your quilt.

• Decide if a quilt needs to be turned to quilt the side borders.

• “Chunk” side border designs.

• Stabilize a quilt to allow turning.

• Adjust pantographs to fit your quilt borders.

• Scale designs to fit your border width.

• Plan attractive border corners.

• Knot by hand and bury threads.

Running Time: 28mins

Use Rulers and Templates to quilt accurate shapes and lines on your quilt. Here are some simple techniques that will ensure success.

Learn how to:

• Set up your machine and frame for ruler work.

• Use the 3-point pressure technique to maintain control.

• Combine rulers and templates with marking the quilt top for accuracy.

• Use rulers safely for stitch-in-the-ditch, crosshatching,

piano keys, clamshells, 5-pointed stars, orange peel, Baptist fans and more.

• Use straight rulers to create curved quilting lines.

Running Time: 49mins

The straight formal lines of crosshatching used in borders or to enhance appliqué or embroidery designs will take your quilting to the next level. Here are some simple techniques that will ensure success.

Learn how to:

• Plan your crosshatching the “NO-MATH” way.

• Mark your quilt to prepare for crosshatching.

• Safely use rulers to stitch straight and accurate lines.

• Resolve corners with miters or corner block designs.

• Use crosshatching to enhance embroidery or appliqué designs.

BONUS: Threads, Needles & Tension
Learn all about:

• Different types of threads.

• How to choose the correct needle for your thread.

• How to adjust both bobbin and top thread tension.

Running Time: 26mins

Use this simple trapunto-as-you-go technique to add dimension to your quilt.

Learn how to:

• Applique and trapunto at the same time.

• Prepare batting shapes.

• Use your quilting machine to create four appliqué edge finishes: blanket-stitch, circular, stars, squiggles.

• Accentuate printed designs on fabric with trapunto.

BONUS: Threads, Needles & Tension

Learn all about:

• Different types of threads.

• How to choose the correct needle for your thread.

• How to adjust both bobbin and top thread tension.

Running Time: 26mins

Use Rulers to quilt accurate shapes and lines on your quilt. Here are some simple techniques to use with Concentric Circle rulers that will ensure sucess.

Learn how to:

• Place and hold circle rulers safely while quilting

• Create Baptist Fan designs with circle rulers

• Quilt continuous curve designs in four-patch, nine-patch and multiple-patch designs

• Use guidelines on circle rulers to achieve different arcs

• Create foundation lines for wavy vines and feather wreaths

1 DVD

Running Time: 31 mins

Use Rulers to quilt accurate shapes and lines on your quilt.Here are some simple techniques to use with Five different rulers that will ensure sucess.

Learn how to:

• Set up your machine and frame for ruler work

• Use the 3-point pressure technique to maintain control

• Use rulers safely

• Advance the quilt while keeping the second pass perfectly

aligned.

• Work with the following rulers to achieve multiple designs:

Clamshells

Mini-Scallop

Swag

Mini-Circles

Right-Angle Rulers

1 DVD

Running Time: 23 mins

The HQ Pro-Stitcher is an intuitive computer-guided quilting system designed especially for use with Handi Quilter quilting machines. This DVD is intended for use by HQ Pro-Stitcher owners.

Learn how to:

• Choose a design that is suitable for edge-to-edge quilting

• Resize and repeat the design to fit the width of the quilt

• Prepare the quilt top for edge-to-edge quilting (avoiding the dreaded Flipped edges).

• Plan and execute the second pass perfectly (including nested designs)

• Crop designs to avoid stitching off the edges of the quilt

1 DVD

Running Time: 50 mins

The HQ Pro-Stitcher is an intuitive computer-guided quilting system designed especially for use with Handi Quilter quilting machines. This DVD is intended for use by HQ Pro-Stitcher owners.

Learn how to:

• Choose a border design that complements the quilt

• Resize and place L-shaped border corner blocks

• Resize border designs to match L-shaped corner blocks

• Begin and end border designs to perfectly align with corner blocks

• Use 2-point rotation to align border designs

• Use the HQ Pro-Stitcher as a measuring device

1 DVD

Running Time: 30 mins