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