My Top Ten Tips for Quilting on a Domestic Sewing Machine 

thank you so much. I wish I had the confidence you do when I first started. I was in my 30's...and I quit. I am now in my 70's and I've almost finished my second quilt and I'm loving it! Your tips are so well explained.

You are so encouraging! Definitely subscribed to your channel. I'm starting my journey making a tiny quilt for my granddaughter's doll. No one will critique it but me but it's helping me learn a lot.

Thank you for this! Your “Just. Do,It,” speech at the end after giving us such specific tips is inspirational!

Thanks for the encouragement! I am finally getting to the place where it doesn't have to be perfect. I also do not point out my mistakes to anybody who receives one of my quilts. Blessings to you!

I'm loving all your tips mine looks terrible but I myself I keep getting stuck in a corner or oh wait missed this area 😅thank you Girl

Great tips! I especially appreciate “planning out the path”! I’ve saved the extra cut off quilt sandwich from my long armer for practice. Thank you for sharing!!!

you don't have a thumbs up? I subscribed to your channel.... I'm 70yrs old been sewing since I was 6yr.old. Never to late to learn something new!🙂

Great video. I’m a beginner and this was great information. Thank you!

Hello! I have been entertaining grandkids and having a fun summer but life is getting busier thru August. I hope you have a joyful week ahead! Thank you for posting your video and for all that you do for the quilting community!

I agree with you!! I have 3 sizes of folding tables for quilting. I quilt at my dining room table with a small table to my left.

Thanks for these great tips! Also, I so appreciate your video about the Angela Walters FMQ challenge. I’m using this month’s Open Gates large project to practice a different filler in each section. Your tips in this video are the icing on that cake!

Thanks for those helpful hints, Fallon. Love that blue quilt top too. Xx💜🇦🇺

Thank you for this! I'm new at quilting and I seem to be my biggest enemy on all the tips you've shown! I will refer to this often!

❤ you are so right just jump in and people really love it

Thank you for inspiring and encouraging us. I will do MORE. Thank you for sharing this with us.😊🎉❤

Always love my Fallon 😊great teaching method❤

Great tips, well presented. Thank you!

Thanks for builting my confidence 😊

Thank you so much for these tips. I'm a beginner quilter and yesterday I started the machine quilting part which I've never done before. I'm having trouble with it but some of your tips have solved the problem. Thanks for giving me my confidence back!

This is exactly what I needed to hear today. I am so afraid to start quilting cotton fabric to cotton batting that I will be inserting into a self-binding baby blanket for a gift. I just pulled out some muslin and the batting that I will use on that quilt to practice with. Thanks for the encouragement❣️

Love this video. Thank-you for sharing your knowledge. I will keep your steps in mind as I’ve been trying to talk myself in quilting my quilts on my machine

Thank you for the great tips🙂 I quilt on my domestic machine but only straight line quilting with the walking foot. My FMQ skills are not great at all but to be fair I don't practice enough🙃 As always thank you for sharing

Thanks for sharing these great, handy tips! 🤩🤩

Thank you for another great video with tips that I need to hear.

Thank you for this helpful information. I haven’t done a lot of my own FMQ, but plan to start and practice, practice, practice! 😊

Enjoyed your video. I needed to hear this to continue journey of free motion quilting. I was frustrated and quit but I now feel like I want to try again Thank you

This is the first time I’ve watched one of your videos and I found it very encouraging. I taught myself to quilt this past year and I definitely learn something new with every quilt. I tend to be too picky per my oldest daughter and lately I’ve had to let some of my “perfectness” go. She also reminded me that none of them sew so they wouldn’t even know if it had errors or not. So that being said, I have two more to go out of 16 that I’m making for family for Christmas 2022! Two weeks to go and those two tops are already done. I’m looking forward to seeing what you do with the UGLY Christmas material. I haven’t made a Christmas quilt yet.

Thanks! Great tips! I’m going to share your video with out Alaska guild members. Many have been wanting to learn domestic machine quilting.

Thank you. You are an inspiration!😊

Thanks alot for your words

Well done!

Thanks for useful tips!

Great tips 🤩. Thank you for the video 😊👍💕

Love tips 9 and 10, thankyou

Thank you! I practice quilting on inherited terrible-looking or poor-quality fabric. Later those practice pieces become the batting for hot pads, totes and such. No one will ever see what lurks behind my beautiful patchwork...or will have a good laugh!

Great tips thank you.

Great tips thanks

Thank you!

I have a Walmart mas.. and just used some of them fancy sticks and it was really nice

Great video. Love the video of you sewing. Your chair is high enough that your arms are in the correct position. My chair is too low and I need to sit on a pillow right now until I get a higher chair. I’m doing my first FMQ quilt right now and jump in is right! Another good tip for beginners is not to worry about your stitch length in the beginning - that will come. So don’t start on a quilt that you spent a lot of money and time on or totally in love with. I’m working on a couch blanket and most of the front material came from a yard sale. I’m having so much fun trying all kinds of different designs on different squares. Since I’m not emotional attached to this quilt, I’m not fretting about all the mistakes. I’ll end up giving it to someone who thinks it’s great.

Thank you for the tips! I am making my second quilt and it is a Queen size. I was looking for suggestions on how to deal with the size of this quilt while working on it. You answered my questions. Thanks😊

Thanks!

All great advice from someone who 8s a self taught free motion quilter .. just do it. It will come better.

I really enjoyed the content of this video. I have made some tops, but am so afraid that I will ruin them by trying to quilt them.

Thank you for your very helpful tips. I am a new person to seeing so found this very helpful. I have just put a quilt for my son and daughter in laws new puppy. Sadly I send it by turning it inside out !hence closed edges. Tried quilting sadly it has gone a bit bulky. Think this was a result in the first place because I just used my normal foot. Not knowing best how the others worked. I have put the walking foot on but the damage is done sadly. Any suggestions how best to correct this a bit.. it not to important as only for a dog, but but like it not to bunch up at least any more. I had thought about cutting the sewn edges off then replacing with a border , but I don’t think it will make much difference. Please help hehe. I have learnt my lesson the hard way. Thank you in advance

Good Morning Fallon, I do the same things as you do. I do have a few more feet you might like for FMQ, I have a stitch in the ditch for that has a thin metal piece that goes down the middle of the foot that works great. It separates those seams pretty good and hides those stitches. I have a hopping foot, I didn’t like it at first but I kept trying it and noticed that when it hops upward, it allows the fabric to relax in its natural position and not bunch up, I like it now, really helpful. I’ve also slowed down while FMQ, my stitches look much nicer and the results are worth it. I do have a question, what type of thread weight do you use? I’ve been using 50 weight. But sometimes, I’m not happy with the way the thread looks on the back of the quilt. Afterwards, ironing helps it look better but I was thinking maybe a thinner thread would look better. Do you have any thoughts on that? One other issue, my machine ties a knot on the back and it leaves a tail for each thread. That drives me crazy and I have to clip each one to remove any tails, not the knots. Does your machine do that too? And how do you handle that? Have a nice relaxing day with your family. Love your videos very much. You are very inspiring. Take care, 🥰 Chris

Can the walking foot go backwards? I am afraid to use mine thinking I will break it. Thank you for sharing.

Hi, Just came across your channel. Good advice. I have a question and hope you can help. I started quilting a queen quilt after basting it and lots of work etc. Put in my free motion quilt foot, new needle etc....Started about in the middle and began. Had my gloves....etc....It looked ok and I was ok pleased and continued for a few minutes. I checked the back of the quilt after a few minutes and saw that it was not turning out good. It was loose, and the stitch did not look good. Don't know how to explain it....not loopy, but just not a good straight stitch. Seemed somewhere in the tension etc. Took off the foot, put back basic one just to sew and it was fine....what the heck....put backon quilt foot and NO it was messing up again....Oh my gosh what could it be. Made sure it was quilting thread etc....continued on sample areas and played and played with tension....top was good, back looked so so bad....UGH.....I am new and not a professional, but have done it before....Not sure what it could be. Seemslike if it was tension, it would look awful with all feet. Any thoughts....I'd appreciate it. Also, can you talk about color thread one side vs the other side when quilting.

I’m new to machine quilting, so my question might sound silky to more experience quilters. I threaded my domestic sewing machine with the regular spool of thread with no problem but when I tried to thread my machine with the quilting thread, I ran into problems. Initially, the bobbin winder was running smoothly, but then it stopped and started making loud noise. I’m using a Juki HZLG220 domestic machine with a horizontal yarn spool inside. What am I doing wrong?

How do you finish off your borders? I'm trying straight stitch in rows on the body of the quilt, but don't want the borders included. How would you suggest finishing the borders separately?

I have a Singer Featherweight machine, but also a Necchi 525 FA (older machine) but all metal, and also Baby Lock that is older Grace ALine series that they say you definitely can’t use a walking foot with). I basically have acquired these from my mom and mother-in-law. I am a beginner at sewing in general, much less at sewing a quilt. So, one question I have is - do they make walking ferry that can be used with older machines, and is a walking foot necessary? I’ve just been watching some videos about servicing your machine and about quilting, so I will take any tips you have!! 😊

Do you quilt all on your sewing machine or do you have a quilting machine also? I got garden gloves at the dollat store 4 when I get the nerve to quilt. I have a little black Singer and don't know if I can quilt on it. Also how do you baste all 3 layers together of a quilt? Thank you you make it sound so easy.I have always quilted by hand, but in the last few years not done any quilting since arthritis had hit my hands. Thanks so much Fallon

I am trying to quilt a simple twin size patchwork quilt and it seems like it gets caught in front of the machine even though I have it over my shoulder.

Is the free motion foot the same as an embroidery foot?

Where does one start seeing. Middle, top, or side?

Curious what table you have