Easy Loop Meander – Whirligig

In this course we’re going to look at how I quilted Whirligig with an easy loop meander.

This beginner-friendly free motion quilting stitch is great as an all over design. For Whirligig, I wanted something fast, but that I could customize to fit the size of the blocks and quilt the background separately from the print fabrics.

This course ONLY includes the quilting tutorial for this quilt. It is included as part of the pattern course at this link.

So I loaded the quilt on sideways so I was quilting from top to bottom so I could quilt the entire way across without having to break my thread. Then I quilted the easy loop meander in the background first, traveling at the tips of the triangles so the travel stitch would be invisible.

When I finished quilting the entire background, I switched threads and repeated that process with the print fabrics. I made sure to try to keep the loops in the print fabric the same size as the loops in the background to keep the quilting texture even throughout the top.

I love how this quilt turned out. Since I quilted small loops to match the size of the blocks, I got really dense results in not a lot of time. The texture is just fabulous, but the design was very simple to execute.

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