You can start free motion quilting with a sewing machine today! This beginner free motion quilting video with Leah Day shares all the steps to setting up a regular sewing machine for free style quilting and quilting an easy design called Stippling.

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00:00 Let's Start Free Motion Quilting!
00:30 How to pull up bobbin thread
00:49 How free motion quilting works
01:14 Moving the quilt with your hands is the key
01:53 Slow, steady hand movement
02:08 Free motion quilting stitch length
03:27 Your stitch length will fluctuate when free motion quilting
04:21 Sewing machine settings for free motion quilting
04:58 Why I don't drop my feed dogs for free motion quilting
05:32 Beginner free motion quilting design: Stippling
06:21 Simple shapes to begin free style quilting
07:19 3 things you're doing when free motion quilting
07:46 Mark your design to make free motion quilting easier
09:25 Why I free motion quilt designs in rows
10:54 Why you are making jerky stitches
11:28 Tools that make free motion quilting easier
14:20 #1 key to pretty free motion quilting
14:54 Why free motion quilting is challenging
15:36 Ugly stitches? Yes! That's normal!