In 2012 I began the Free Motion Quilt Along, a new weekly quilt along designed to help quilters use the hundreds of designs I'd shared on the Free Motion Quilting Project in real quilts. This quilt along was free with all the patterns shared in the blog posts or taught within the quilting videos.
Sharing videos weekly was a new experience for me and I learned a lot about online teaching and planning ahead during this project. This was my first substantial experience being face-to-face with the camera as well, which wasn't always comfortable or pretty.
I was still learning how to juggle my schedule and filming, editing, and planning ahead, along with running my business and being a mom. It was a lot to handle so combing my hair was often the last thing on my list!
Since this quilt along completed, I took the Heart & Feather Wholecloth, one of the quilt projects shared in 2012, and updated it with a lot more information and techniques. You can now find this project and pattern in the Heart & Feather Wholecloth Workshop.
You can now find all of the videos from the Free Motion Quilt Along shared in this playlist. Just click play to watch all of the videos play in order!
If you'd like to read all of the posts in order, just click the links to find the posts on the Free Motion Quilting Project:
When I look at the videos for this quilt along, a part of me slightly cringes at how little I cared about combing my hair or clearly lighting the room I was sitting in. Making videos was often the last thing on my list after a long day, which is why I look pretty tired in most of these videos.
But this was also one of our most widely watched and followed quilt along projects. I have to look at each design and project shared with joy in my heart because it was so nice to be quilting along with other quilters, interacting on the blog, and seeing other people make a quilt I had designed.
So while they aren't perfect, I'll never take these videos down because they're such a great lesson on free motion quilting and quilting real quilts.
