Free-Motion Mastery in a Month

The Simple Step-by-Step Learning System for Machine Quilting Success!

Free-Motion Mastery in a Month draws on my 25 years experience as a piano teacher to bring you the simplest, most effective system ever for learning or improving free-motion quilting skills.

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How it Works

Free-Motion Mastery in a Month breaks down the process of learning free-motion quilting into individual skills. You learn each skill separately, then put them together for quilting success. There are 31 guided daily lessons. Each lesson contains three types of exercises: Tracing, Drawing and Quilting. Each exercise plays a different and important role in mastering free-motion quilting.

Because you're practicing the right things, the right way, in the right order, you really can learn to do free-motion quilting in as little as a month.

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TRACING

Before you even start sewing, you’ll begin a daily practice of tracing patterns without a sewing machine. For these exercises, you’ll use a tool called the Master Trainer and a series of Tracing Sheets.

The tracing exercises help you pattern the exact hand movements you’ll use at your sewing machine when it comes time to quilt. (The video above shows how they work.) By building this muscle memory before you get to the sewing machine, the shapes of quilting patterns will feel familiar when you begin to stitch them. You learn them without struggling to manage the machine at the same time. And because you don't need to be at the sewing machine, you can practice free-motion quilting any time, anywhere.

DRAWING

In addition to tracing, you’ll draw the patterns you're learning in a sketchbook.

You’ve probably heard that you should draw quilting patterns to learn how to quilt them. That is true, but what drawing teaches you is different from the muscle memory needed to quilt. Drawing teaches your brain how to guide your hand to form the pattern you want to quilt.

QUILTING

You'll quilt one 12" x 12" block in each daily lesson Your FMM30 quilt uses two types of fabric: a large-motif fabric and solid color fabric.

You’ll begin by quilting eight blocks of a large-motif fabric, just outlining the motifs in the fabric. This gives you a chance to learn to control the sewing machine without having to struggle learning a pattern at the same time.

After quilting the large motif blocks, you'll quilt eight solid color blocks. Each day you’ll fill one block with the free-motion patterns you’ve practiced on the Tracing Sheets.

Next, with your confidence level high, you’ll quilt the border strips with your own designs.

Finally, with all your the sections pre-quilted, you’ll use joining strips to put them together in your own original layout. You've completed your free-motion quilted masterpiece!

But more importantly, you've gained a solid base of muscle memory that you can build on to quilt any design.

Take a minute and see what Free-Motion Mastery in a Month is all about

Watch this introductory video to see why Free-Motion Mastery in a Month will change your quilting forever!

Here's What People Are Saying About Free-Motion Mastery in A Month!

Angie, Texas

Quilts on: Gammill Vision 18-8

I was a beginner in freehand quilting, and at the end of the journey I feel so much more comfortable. I have opened a Pandora's Box of endless possibilities. Now I will make my quilts my own creation that I'm proud to show off!

Robin, Texas

Quilts on: Grace Q’nique (hand guided)

When I bought my longarm I only intended to do pantographs. I proved to myself that I could do free motion quilting and have fun! In the two months since I finished FMM30 I have quilted four quilts using what I learned. Thanks!

Pat, Arkansas

Quilts on: Bernina 440 Quilters Edition

I used to look at my quilting magazines and feel intimidated by FMQ. Through FMM30 I learned to see the 6 Basic Shapes and quilt them. The barriers are down!

Margaret Rose, Texas

Quilts on:Bernina 1510

I have been a quilter for over 25 years but my skills at free-motion quilting were very weak. I am very pleased with the improvement in my own skills in such a short time. I’m excited to tackle my UFO’s instead of dreading them!

Buy the Free-Motion Mastery in a Month Book, Tools & Video

Free-Motion Mastery in a Month Deluxe Bundle - Online Streaming Format (Video + Book + Tool Kit)

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Free-Motion Mastery in a Month Deluxe Bundle - DVD Format
(Video + Book + Tool Kit)

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Free-Motion Mastery in a Month <BR>Express Bundle <BR>(Book + Tool Kit)<br>

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◄You can't get your hands, fingers, feet and machine to work together.: We’ll separate learning quilting patterns from learning to manage the sewing machine in free-motion mode. Once you are comfortable with each skill separately, then we’ll combine them to quilt free-motion patterns successfully.
◄A one-day class isn't long enough for you to get good at quilting.: We’re going to use small exercises repeated daily over the course of a month. Your muscle memory will grow quickly and stay with you. You can use the FMM30 tools any time to learn new patterns or “get back in shape” if you haven’t quilted for a while.
▼You don't want to ruin a beautiful quilt top you spent a lot of time and money on.: There’s no piecing, and you quilt one block at a time. If you ruin a block you haven’t lost more than a few minutes of prep time and very little money.
◄You can't manage the weight and bulk of a whole quilt.: We’ll quilt individual blocks, so there’s no weight and no bulk to manage. You’ll join them to make the quilt after they are quilted.
◄You need a special table to set up your machine at table level.: Individual blocks can easily be quilted on the small extension table of a sewing machine, even if it’s sitting above table-height, so no special table is required.
◄You need a better/newer/bigger sewing machine to quilt on.: FMM30 will work for any type of sewing machine because it’s about you more than about the machine. Start with what you have. Most domestic sewing machines can be set up for free-motion quilting and the instructions tell you how. If you have a mid-arm or longarm machine (whether sit-down or frame-mounted), Free-Motion Mastery in a Month will work for you too.
◄You don't have time to practice.: You’ll be surprised by how much you can learn without being at the sewing machine at all. You can do the tracing and drawing exercises whenever, wherever you pause for a few minutes – during commercials on TV, while you’re on the phone, or while you’re traveling. And it’s a lot easier to make time for quilting just one block than for a whole quilt!

Start Learning Today

Free-Motion Mastery in a Month gives you a plan, the tools and a method that works for learning free-motion quilting. It gets you past the fears and barriers that are holding you back. It works in small steps that fit into your busy schedule. Stop saying "someday" and get started -- today!

Order Free-Motion Mastery in a Month, and get the first Tracing Sheet now.

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Lauren

Quilts on: Janome Memorycraft and Bernina 770

Making the commitment to focus on free-motion quilting for a month increased my skills in a short time. The daily exercises helped make the connection between hands and brain, and I could feel it “clicking” at times when I was quilting.