Love Letter Free Motion Quilting Tutorial

"Swirls" - quilting pebbles with Free-Motion Fantasy fabric!

Free motion machine quilted pebbles often intimidate people. It is often taught that to make these small circles you quilt 1 1/2 times around, but this just isn’t true. The only time a thread path needs to go around a circle one and a half times is if all of the petals are lining up like a chain of pearls. in actuality, pebbles are made like a series of figure 8 shapes. Mixed size pebbles are actually the easiest of all, quilting a big one then filling in with small ones. I find it easiest to qu