Hello….
I hope you’re having a great morning. I just wanted to quickly let you know that we are having a 30% off sale on all quilting designs in our shop until Monday May 17th. There is no code necessary. There are several new fun designs!! Go check them out!

I also finally listed my four different Lined designs. If you follow me on Instagram you may have seen me quilting a client quilt with the Lined 1/2” design. I’ll do a separate post about the quilt info another time, but I’ll add a picture below for now.

My Lined designs are a simple line going back and forth from edge to edge, with a certain space between each line. So, the Lined 1” design has 1” spacing between the lines, the Lined 1/2” (which is pictured above) has 1/2” between the lines, and the same goes for the Lined 1/4” and the Lined 3/4”. They are all available in my shop. I’ll bundle them and offer them at a discount as well, in case you don’t want to figure out the math for a specific measurement. I personally wouldn’t quilt more than an inch separation between the lines. I did once before at a clients request, and it didn’t love it.

Designs like these can be tricky in dealing with thread breaks. The thread typically breaks 3-5 times each line that is quilted from right to left, on my machine. I have listed a few tips that help me cut back on a ton of those thread breaks. I had around 6-8 thread breaks on the whole section with the quilt above, which is a vast improvement. I turn my needle to 5:30, slow my machine down one or two speeds, and spray my Omni cone of thread with distilled water…keeping it damp until I was done quilting. I also heard that Glide thread helps tremendously.

The designs must be set at the height I’ve listed in the description of the design, to get the proper spacing between the lines. The width should be set at the width of your quilt or boundary. If you don’t, you’ll have the design setup like the picture below. There should be no vertical lines. I use a Gammill Statler, and on the Statler there is a “maintain aspect” box that is checked during design setup. You’ll actually want to uncheck that, so you can change the width of the design. After you change the width of the design to the width of the boundary, the vertical lines will disappear. Essentially, you only want one motif per section…like pictured above.