How Do I Quilt It? How to Plan Your Quilting Design with Leah Day 

I'm so glad you like it! Simple is sometimes best!

Excellent Brit! I'm so glad you liked that idea! I know, on paper straight lines sounds so Blah, but you can do really beautiful things with it! Just goes to show it doesn't have to be ridiculously complicated in order to be pretty!

You're super welcome Carol! I'm happy to help!

I have your book 365 FMQ designs.. Love it!!!

That's awesome! I'm so happy you found this video helpful!

Thank you Debbie!

Perfect! That's great Joanne! It's so funny, that's exactly what happened to me as I was drawing the design on paper. I was just playing around thinking I might draw another version and sat back and realized - wow! That's an awesome design! Just goes to show, you don't know what you will get until you play and try lots of ideas.

Excellent June! That's a lot of quilts on your plate!

Aw! Thank you Dawn!

You're super welcome Denise! I'm happy to help!

Wonderful Deb! I'm so glad you enjoyed this video and found it helpful!

Thank you for watching Pamela!

Thank you for watching Elizabeth! I'm so happy you found it helpful!

Thank you for watching!

Nothing wrong with taking Easy Street! You might just find that it's more challenging than it looks to move the machine and you're happy to just focus on shifting the quilt instead of doing a fancy design.

I need to know this as well. Wondered about the affect.

Yes, the less quilting you have, the less quilted it will feel. It will feel more open and if it's a fluffy batting, it will puff out more. You can use this to your advantage and stitch around certain blocks or around the squares so the space between the squares puffs a bit more. Really this is one of those things you have to test, try out, and understand by experimenting and seeing what you like best.

The reason the batting manufacturers put on their packaging how far it can be quilted apart is to let us know what we can and can't do. Battings are made differently. Batting migrates inside of the quilt sandwich when it is washed if there isn't enough quilting for said batting. If you have batting that says quilt 3 inches apart and you quilt 5 to 6 inches apart, then that batting when the quilt is washed will migrate to another place in the quilt within the 5 to 6 inches that you quilted apart. Batting manufacturers started making batting that could be quilted farther apart for if you want to quilt a quilt farther apart than 3 inches. This is why it is important to know what your batting can handle for the type of quilting you want to quilt.

I've used EQ7, but I had to take a class to learn how to use it. It was neither intuitive or easy. I haven't had time to try EQ8 yet, but I have heard it's better. As for designing the quilting designs on the surface, I'm not aware of any programs for that. I'd love to find one though!