Practice does make perfect — especially when it comes to free-motion machine quilting, either on a sit-down machine, a stand-up longarm, or a domestic sewing machine.
The HQ educators always emphasize the importance of “doodling” quilting designs to build muscle memory. So get out a notepad and pencil and start doodling. Practice drawing feathers, meandering designs, loops, swirls, and invent some of your own all-over continuous line quilting designs.
Or if you have an iPad, how about using a sketching / drawing app.
These are three free sketching apps I’ve tried (download them from the App Store in iTunes):
- Paper (by FiftyThree)
- Skitch (by Evernote)
- SketchBook Express (by Autodesk).
Use your finger — or consider picking up a capacitive stylus (a couple dollars) and use it instead of your finger on your iPad screen.
Are you a free-motion doodler?
PicsArt for Android. You can take a picture of your quilt block and then doodle on it in PicsArt.
Thanks for the great info Jeannie. To try out quilting designs on the pic of the quilt block is even better than just doodling. Now I’ve got to look for a similar app for the iPad.
I don’t know but I would assume there are. I simply searched for “sketching” and “drawing” apps. Good luck.
Do you know of any similar apps for Android Tablets?