Spiral quilting

I love it whenever we get to the machine quilting part of any quilt along! In case you missed it, click here to view all previous Optical Illusion Quilt Along posts. Today, I’m showing how to…

After sharing my Scrap Vortex quilt and mentioning that I spiral-quilted it, a few people expressed interest in learning more about spiral ...

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I think we can all agree that as quilters we have this deeply implanted love of creating and being creative, and that creativity doesn’t just stop at piecing a quilt top. Doing the actu…

Quilting Spirals with a Walking Foot When using a walking foot, I love the amount of control I have as I'm stitching, resulting in ve...

How do you use the Fibonacci sequence in quilts? This article gives examples showing the different ways of using Fibonacci in quilting.

As a result of Monday's post, some of my readers asked me how I do spiral quilting, and asked me to reply on the blog for everyone's benefit, so here goes. Tutorial copyright 2017 Jan Ochterbeck; please do not pin without attribution. Spiral Quilting I quilt on a domestic machine, so all the advice I can give is only for a home sit-down machine. If you've never tried this before, I recommend starting with a baby quilt or a table topper first, before spiral quilting a twin size quilt. Machine…

I wanted to make note of these things for my own future reference, but hopefully you'll find them useful as well: Baste your quilt well. You will handle the quilt a lot and want the layers to stay put. Also, quilting in the same direction around and around the whole time has the potential for a lot of shifting if your basting is insufficient. I used a lot of pins but spray would work as well. I found this printable spiral template at verykerryberry and found it to be very useful. I wanted to…

I saw this pattern called Spicy Spiral Table Runner in my local quilt store and it sucked me in. It takes eight fat quarters or quarter-yard cuts of eight fabrics and a special 9 degree ruler. I bought the ruler, an 9 degree three-in-one ruler model not quite as specified in the pattern and not the one used when the shop had taught the class earlier. The shop had sold out of that one but both the shop owner and I thought this substitute would be adequate. I bought the pattern but no extra…

After sharing my Scrap Vortex quilt and mentioning that I spiral-quilted it, a few people expressed interest in learning more about spiral ...