#MICRO MEANDER QUILTING HOW TO#
#MICRO MEANDER QUILTING FREE#

It is fast and appropriate for some quilts, and out of place in others. I always try to find my “mistakes” after the quilt has been washed and dried, and it’s usually quite a search! I also recommend doodling practice that is enormously helpful to train the brain where to go.Īs far as “stippling ruins a quilt” well, I call BS. It happens, and it doesn’t ruin anything. Sometimes you quilt yourself into a hole. 🙂 If you practice stippling several lap sized quilts, you’ll get lots better, but they always want perfect results right out of the box. If you use a 5% shrinkage batting and wash the end result in warm water, your beginner stippling will look terrific. Their work looks exactly like mine did when I started stippling. They are always disappointed in their results and say they “can’t” stipple.

#MICRO MEANDER QUILTING HOW TO#

I’ve tried to teach several of my friends how to stipple. For all other purposes, please contact me at Thanks!

#MICRO MEANDER QUILTING FREE#

Feel free to re-blog, share with attribution to The Inbox Jaunt. PS…All tutorials, images and information are the property of Lori Kennedy at The Inbox Jaunt and is intended for personal use only. So if you’re one of the many people who has trouble with Stippling or Meandering…you are NORMAL! Just move on… there are so many choices… Whereas instructions like: Stitch amoebas, don’t cross over, wiggle…are much more difficult to follow. Stitch a half circle…we can all follow these directions….(especially when there’s a photo to go with it!) Instructions like: Start on the bottom line, stitch straight up. Here’s the reason: Our brain works fastest when we tell it what we SHOULD DO, not when we tell it what NOT to do… Whenever one of the little Tykes started running on the wet pavement (very dangerous)-the life guards were instructed to shout “WALK!”… They didn’t shout “DON’T RUN!”… When my daughters were in high school, they were all life guards at our local swimming pool. Stick with me a minute…while I share a story… REALLY? No wonder so many beginners get frustrated and quit Free Motion Quilting! “Stitch a wiggling, meandering line that doesn’t cross itself.”.“Stippling is closely spaced, random quilting lines that do not cross and are gently curved.”.I did a quick Google search of how to stipple and here are some of the descriptions and directions:

Now, I know many of you like these stitches, and it’s nothing personal…it’s just that every beginner is told to “just stipple”… As I have mentioned many times, I want to Ban the Stipple quilting stitch and it’s larger cousin, the Meander stitch.

Micro meander quilting