This picture of a customer quilt from 2014 always makes me smile. I love the look of freehand quilting. There are many sources for learning freehand quilting now and at the time I quilted this quilt Angela Walters of Quilting is My Therapy was promoting her early books and inspiring many quilters.
This particular quilt was a lot of fun to put to use some of the techniques that I had recently learnt.
For the most part my quilting is done on my APQS Millennium Longarm which truly is such a wonderful machine .
However, I have always admired people who also quilt on their domestic machines and in the last couple of years have set goals for myself to work on that.
Another quilter who has inspired me is Cindy Needham and I have taken some of her classes over the years. She has some on Craftsy that I really enjoyed.
Lately after I finish working on customer quilts I will spend some time quilting using my Juki Haruka playing and practicing freehand quilting. I have been playing with small squares with 3” grids and loving the texture. These are some earlier examples of playing.
Just like when I was learning to quilt with my Longarm it takes what we used to call PPP practice practice practice!
My friend Ana Paula teaches so many amazing classes and one of them is freehand quilting if you want to learn and want a fantastic teacher I highly recommend her! She has also inspired me to spend time playing and growing in my freehand quilting fun.
http://www.canadapaulabrasil.ca
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