I understand that you always put the bottom of the ruler on the line of the previous line, but when you make your first triangle, how can you line up the bottom of the ruler with the bottom line? Wouldn’t you go over the same line again? Do I go past the original triangle a 1/4″ then line up the bottom of the ruler with the bottom line? Dang this is hard to explain what I’m thinking.
Hi, Heidi. I’m glad you liked my little video. To answer your question…when you finish your triangle, leave your needle in the down position and the finishing point. Then place the ruler against the foot with the END of the ruler on the first line that you stitched. If you notice, the ruler is not sitting on the line where your needle is, it is off of the line by 1/4″. Try it and you’ll see what I mean. I created this video as a fun exercise for folks just learning to use rulers.
It is not necessary to spin the fabric to do this design. Since the quilt sandwich I was working on was so small, I just rotated it for the ease of filming the video.
I believe the information regarding the ruler is at the end of the video in the credits. I have no affiliation with this company but the ruler is a 6″ straight ruler by Fine Line (Accents in Design).
The part of the video that shows the round foot is being stitched on a Baby Lock Tiara, a sit down mid arm machine. It is called the hopping foot.
If have tried to include both mid arm and domestic machines in this video as I made the video originally for our Facebook group Sit Down Free Motion Quilters.
I have hunted high and low for a ruler like your using. Can you please tell me where to find them?? Love your video and the way the triangles change. thanks
Hi Karen,
Accents In Design has the Fine Line Quilter Ruler we believe you were referencing. Use this address to access Accents In Designs. http://www.accentsindesign.com/#!rulers/cy2g Copy this and place it in your browser address. Look for the small Shop Now quilt block.
Hope this helps!
I have a similar ruler that I bought from Harriet Hargraves, however, my free motion quilting quilting foot keeps slipping under the ruler. I have a viking machine. Do you know if there is a ruler foot for the viking?
I absolutely love this idea. I just learned to make these shapes with paper piecing. Amazing curves I think it was called. This will fit right in.
(Great video…just the music very distracting..constructive criticism I hope)
so, you spin the ruler instead. This could not be done with a DSM with a big quilt unfortunately. Most of my quilts are 90”x90” – so wish I could do something like this! Would be fine for a table runner or MAYBE a crib quilt. Too much quilt wresting for anything large
I love this video and have tried it. LOVE IT! I have a Gammill Charm mid arm machine and it came with a straight line guide, but it’s 12″ long. I would like to find a 6″ guide like the one in your video, but can’t seem to locate one. My machine dealer can’t seem to be of any help either. Could you direct me to somewhere where I could get one. I’m not sure what to even call it. The one that came with the machine is a gam-guide jr. Thank you for any help you could give me.
Arlene Simpson
Sep 05. 2015
got to watch this
Donna Horton
Sep 05. 2015
This looks like fun! Awesome quilting pattern!
Adele Musgrave
Sep 05. 2015
@[1089205328:2048:Janie Roddom] must watch beautiful
Jennifer Dewey
Sep 05. 2015
wow! Zentangles with thread!
Cherie Luckman
Sep 05. 2015
Very interesting, a rainy day project to try……….
Mary Birdsong
Sep 05. 2015
@[1463492879:2048:Joann Mc$#%&!@*ly] have you seen this? It looks amazing for fill-in work!
Joanne Krick DiNovo
Sep 05. 2015
Very cool, indeed.
Joann McAnally
Sep 05. 2015
No I haven’t Mary. I’ll have to research it.
Kathy Smith
Sep 05. 2015
Where do you get the ruler?
Helen Szgalsky
Sep 05. 2015
Very cool. Will have to try this on a rainy or snowy day. Thanks for both versions.
Donna Willis Coghlan
Sep 05. 2015
@[1162164748:2048:Jo Ann Horn]
Pat Kramer
Sep 05. 2015
They don’t show you where to get this ruler…
Jo Ann Horn
Sep 05. 2015
Thank you for sharing. I will read this. It sounds really interesting. My cousin Sandra quilts too and I forwarded on to her.
Sherrie Hammond
Sep 05. 2015
Very cool – unbelievable how easy this looks.
Heidi Farcas Balben
Sep 05. 2015
I understand that you always put the bottom of the ruler on the line of the previous line, but when you make your first triangle, how can you line up the bottom of the ruler with the bottom line? Wouldn’t you go over the same line again? Do I go past the original triangle a 1/4″ then line up the bottom of the ruler with the bottom line? Dang this is hard to explain what I’m thinking.
Jeanne Harrison
Sep 07. 2015
Hi, Heidi. I’m glad you liked my little video. To answer your question…when you finish your triangle, leave your needle in the down position and the finishing point. Then place the ruler against the foot with the END of the ruler on the first line that you stitched. If you notice, the ruler is not sitting on the line where your needle is, it is off of the line by 1/4″. Try it and you’ll see what I mean. I created this video as a fun exercise for folks just learning to use rulers.
Jan Smith
Sep 05. 2015
impressive love it
Angela Donnelly
Sep 06. 2015
This is mesmerising.
Connie Fuller
Sep 06. 2015
http://www.keepnuins$#%&!@*chesquilting.com/amazingly-simple-quilting-dont-think-you-can-do-it-it-will-surprise-even-the-most-skeptical/2/
Sharon Allen
Sep 06. 2015
Looks like fun @[1132317199:2048:Terry Sharp]
Karen Dobry
Sep 06. 2015
This looks amazing, but for those of us with a standard sewing machine… how difficult is it going to be, to keep spinning a full sized quilt around?
Jeanne Harrison
Sep 07. 2015
It is not necessary to spin the fabric to do this design. Since the quilt sandwich I was working on was so small, I just rotated it for the ease of filming the video.
Lucresia Batschelet
Sep 06. 2015
This is amazing. Seems to me it would be very relaxing. Where do you purchase the ruler? Any one know?
Jeanne Harrison
Sep 07. 2015
I believe the information regarding the ruler is at the end of the video in the credits. I have no affiliation with this company but the ruler is a 6″ straight ruler by Fine Line (Accents in Design).
Lucresia Batschelet
Sep 06. 2015
I think it would be great on small projects, purses, table runners, etc.
Patterson Renae
Sep 06. 2015
Very impressive! I never would have imagined that I could use a zipperfoot for free motion on a domestic sewing machine! So cool 😉
Patterson Renae
Sep 06. 2015
Or should I say SEW cool!
Deborah Jett McVay
Sep 06. 2015
On the longarm, one cannot spin the quilt around.
Donna Poore Osborne
Sep 06. 2015
How cool!!!
Kerry Higgins
Sep 06. 2015
Great
Linda Veltre
Sep 06. 2015
I’m ignorant…what is this round presser foot called?
Jeanne Harrison
Sep 07. 2015
The part of the video that shows the round foot is being stitched on a Baby Lock Tiara, a sit down mid arm machine. It is called the hopping foot.
If have tried to include both mid arm and domestic machines in this video as I made the video originally for our Facebook group Sit Down Free Motion Quilters.
Stacie Chitty
Sep 06. 2015
@[100000477936563:2048:Tracie Rose Hellums]
Mary Coonfare
Sep 06. 2015
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Frankie Louise Nerren Harvey
Sep 06. 2015
Free motion or Darning Foot
Sheila Power Patel
Sep 07. 2015
@[100008154406095:2048:Gladys N David Butcher]
Shirley Vick
Sep 07. 2015
likely has some uses, I normally don’t like my quilting lines to be so closely sewn, I like it when the quilts have more loft. Thanks Tracy !
Irene Lin
Sep 07. 2015
Cool idea,no budget.
Linda Veltre
Sep 07. 2015
…or do a quilt-as-you-go project and use this great idea one block or one row at a time.
Kathy Smith
Sep 07. 2015
It’s not the foot I was interested in. It’s the clear ruler you’re holding against the foot to guide it. Where would I get one of those?
Gail Lassiter
Sep 08. 2015
Beautiful
Vicki Daly
Sep 08. 2015
@[100003509392395:2048:Rachelle Denneny], I’d like to give this a try.
Peggy Leslie Bailey
Sep 08. 2015
Very cool
Linda Jefferson
Sep 08. 2015
My virus protections won’t down load it, says it’s harmful!
Dee Raper
Sep 08. 2015
@[100008373940466:2048:Wendy] – lookie
Laura Stevens Johnson
Sep 10. 2015
Hmm
Karen Dalby
Sep 10. 2015
Looks interesting
Dilber Dumasia
Sep 11. 2015
What an amazing tutorial! And so therapeutic to watch too! I would definitely try doing a cushion cover using this technique!
Antoinette Van Graan
Sep 11. 2015
Great have to try it!!!!
Gwen Griffitts Johnson
Sep 12. 2015
This is something I must try.
Sue Williamson
Sep 12. 2015
Where do you buy just the ruler pls
Karen Brooks
Sep 12. 2015
I have hunted high and low for a ruler like your using. Can you please tell me where to find them?? Love your video and the way the triangles change. thanks
keepnuinstitchesquilting
Sep 12. 2015
Hi Karen,
Accents In Design has the Fine Line Quilter Ruler we believe you were referencing. Use this address to access Accents In Designs. http://www.accentsindesign.com/#!rulers/cy2g Copy this and place it in your browser address. Look for the small Shop Now quilt block.
Hope this helps!
Emily Beth Robison Larsen
Sep 12. 2015
My next new quilting project ya baby
Sally Newell
Sep 13. 2015
Wow!!
Verna Dukeman
Sep 13. 2015
Neat
Honnie Lowe
Sep 13. 2015
@[610314247:2048:Kerry Chook]
Pat Knotts Millican
Sep 13. 2015
Looks like fun
Kathy Foster
Sep 13. 2015
I want to do this…
Jo Pearson
Sep 14. 2015
@[719402681:2048:Frances Clapson]
Anne Arthur
Sep 14. 2015
Oh Gosh I need one of these rulers…..
Margaret Goodwin
Sep 14. 2015
I might try that
Carol Thompson
Sep 14. 2015
Teri Schwartzkopf
Marlo A. Miller Raub
Sep 15. 2015
Wow. I can’t wait to try this.
Tonia Donohoe Keigley
Sep 15. 2015
No question is ignorant
We all have to learn sometime.
Doris Bensadoun Lipsky
Sep 18. 2015
Really neat!
Janet Mogavero Denninger
Sep 18. 2015
This was a GREAT tutorial for all my fellow quilter buddies…….!!!!
Shannon Derrick-Brown
Sep 20. 2015
We will have to do this on my machine
Barbara Scadden
Sep 20. 2015
Interesting, but, why??? Drive a person to drink…..
Lisa Davies
Sep 20. 2015
From US, $23. to buy plus $18. for shipping makes it a bit pricey, but looks great.
Sara Pro
Sep 20. 2015
Brooke Wallace watch this, add another creative idea to your brain.
Lisa Davies
Sep 20. 2015
Oops, sorry Thomas, but of course you are always in my thoughts. (Enough grovelling?)
Brenda Phifer Whitfield
Sep 20. 2015
Patricia Thorne Nichols
Mary Williams
Sep 20. 2015
Amazing!!!!
Kay Metcalf
Sep 20. 2015
Quilted Ceiling Kathy Burchill Paulette Everson
Evelyn Byrne
Sep 20. 2015
I love it,AWESOM
Sue Ellingsen
Sep 22. 2015
Very cool! -Mike
Chardel Gibson Blaine
Sep 22. 2015
Way cool!
Dail W. Davis
Sep 23. 2015
Gotta get one
Judy Quayle
Sep 24. 2015
look at this Dorothy
Terri Weldon
Sep 24. 2015
Where can I find one of these rulers?
karen
Oct 07. 2015
this was amazing, gives me hope i may actually get a project quilted!
Debbie Frick
Oct 12. 2015
I have one of these and I really like using it !
Meg Pease
Oct 12. 2015
just showed pic to hubby, he is going to put pegs on ALL my rulers, very nifty ides, stops hand stress, I would think.
Rita Pirkey
Oct 12. 2015
Janet Lane, Julie Payne Smith,Linda K. Craig
Linda L. Lenz
Oct 13. 2015
Pretty cool
Gladys Marchbank
Oct 14. 2015
cannot get this ruler in uk , and p&P from abroad is excessive , with tax and everything ……..
Barbie Jones
Oct 14. 2015
Love love this, so relaxing
Teressa Jensen
Oct 14. 2015
Roberta Hansen, tag Christine with this one. Video emphasizes keeping quilt bunched up on table top.
Lesley Matthewson
Oct 15. 2015
Gladys, right pain in the bum, isn’t it? I saw this a while ago and wanted one, but the shipping and extra costs makes it a no no
Bernice Regular Head
Oct 15. 2015
Look at this Janice Smith..
Paula Denson
Oct 15. 2015
I’ve tried it and I love it! It really is so darn easy!
Cris McComber
Oct 15. 2015
Jeanette Henry Eenkooren
Gwen Bailey
Oct 16. 2015
Wonder where a person would get one of these?
Nina Hamon
Oct 17. 2015
I really want to try this
Dawn Kyle Davis
Oct 18. 2015
I have a similar ruler that I bought from Harriet Hargraves, however, my free motion quilting quilting foot keeps slipping under the ruler. I have a viking machine. Do you know if there is a ruler foot for the viking?
Barbie Channell
Oct 18. 2015
Ah,I’m not the only one then! Im in UK and couldnt find one either.
Granny Kay
Oct 18. 2015
Wow! Thanks for sharing. Gonna try this one.
Kay Judd
Oct 18. 2015
WOW!!
Peggy Thompson
Oct 18. 2015
I just ordered mine and am looking forward to working with it. Why didn’t we figure this out a long time ago?
Carol Wettstein Wagner
Oct 18. 2015
Interesting!
Cheryl Carr
Oct 19. 2015
Would love to try this.
Darrene Nowlin Collins
Oct 20. 2015
great!
Patricia Perram
Oct 21. 2015
Paula check this out.
Dorothy Ann Benoit
Oct 21. 2015
Even I could do this!!!
Kathleen A Grom
Oct 21. 2015
Wow Joanne Bove….another ruler!!! Very clever indeed.
Gwyn Reiber
Oct 21. 2015
I just did this on my longarm. Any straight ruler will work for doing this.
Judith Ann Bigham
Oct 22. 2015
that it really interesting…..
June
Oct 26. 2015
I absolutely love this idea. I just learned to make these shapes with paper piecing. Amazing curves I think it was called. This will fit right in.
(Great video…just the music very distracting..constructive criticism I hope)
Cynthia Chute
Oct 28. 2015
Joanne M. Lewis, you have to watch this. Amazing!
Joanne M. Lewis
Oct 28. 2015
That is quite amazing.
Richard Carolyn Thibodeau Hutchins
Oct 28. 2015
When you getting yours … Carol ….
Bente
Oct 29. 2015
Thank you very much for sharing this tutorial.
I will try ruler work with my zipperfoot until I can get the right foot for my Bernina.
Margi Speakman
Oct 29. 2015
Sorry still a Traditionalist ~ all hand quilting!! > 50 yrs of quilting!!
Pam Rankin
Oct 29. 2015
Marjorie Sward Mrasek!
Marjorie Sward Mrasek
Oct 29. 2015
Thanks, Pam! I have been at Volcano this past week (M-Th) quiliting! Good to hear from you!
Anne Hodgins
Oct 31. 2015
Taking the course in Nov. Can’t wait!
Judy Wiens
Oct 31. 2015
Tried this, but didn’t quite get the hang of it
Carlie Craig
Oct 31. 2015
cool!
Yvonne Renee Gardner
Nov 02. 2015
Elaine Shaw look at this fabulous. simply but the effect is amazing
Yvonne Renee Gardner
Nov 02. 2015
post pictures please x
Linda Shumway
Nov 02. 2015
Wow, love this, would like to try it and the prices are very reasonable. Has anyone else tried them?
Corky Russell
Nov 03. 2015
I tried it.it is fun
Elaine Shaw
Nov 04. 2015
I will when I’ve got the hang of it – not as easy as she makes it look!
Karin Jaderlund Vail
Nov 04. 2015
so, you spin the ruler instead. This could not be done with a DSM with a big quilt unfortunately. Most of my quilts are 90”x90” – so wish I could do something like this! Would be fine for a table runner or MAYBE a crib quilt. Too much quilt wresting for anything large
Linda Pratt
Nov 05. 2015
beautiful!
Jennifer Byrne
Nov 07. 2015
I love this, will be having a bash at this with a plain emerald fabric to make a cushion cover instead of trapunto.
Victoria Toni Chapman
Nov 07. 2015
Liked very much the control of the ruler. Just ordered. Thanks for the vid.
Jennifer Byrne
Nov 07. 2015
is anyone in the UK selling these fine line rulers. The ruler I have is ok but not really clear enough like these are.
Betty Ferguson
Dec 10. 2015
Thanks for sharing Deana , no wonder you like quilting.Looks like fun.
Darlene Summers George
Dec 11. 2015
Marquita R. Landrum Ector have you watched this!! Loved them!!!!
Marquita R. Landrum Ector
Dec 11. 2015
NO! But I’m thrilled! I’m going to try this on the small quilt I’m making right now! Thank you Darlene!
Nancy Tee
Dec 11. 2015
What is the name of that ruler?
Shirley Woodbeck
Dec 11. 2015
where can I buy the ruler in Canada?
Elizabeth Mensch Avossa
Dec 11. 2015
Debra Herbert
Kathy Coull
Dec 12. 2015
Thanks for posting that Eleanor. I just got a machine capable with drop feed. Can’t wait to do something creative with it!
Helen Stock
Dec 13. 2015
Kelly Proud
Terry Cross
Dec 15. 2015
Linda Allan, Linda Funk wow!!! have to try this one.
Mary Stewart
Dec 15. 2015
Joyce Wise
Helen Smith
Dec 16. 2015
Have you seen this Valerie Hodsdon Knight Blomquist ? xo
Frances Hart
Dec 20. 2015
absolutely simple; but time consuming to quilt a large area this way; love the look
Shaz Juozaitis
Dec 21. 2015
Robyen Gibney looks good
Maureen Taphouse
Dec 22. 2015
amazing
Debbie Ellwood
Dec 22. 2015
wow…..love it…..on my way to get this quilting ruler!!!
Terri Epema
Dec 25. 2015
Connie Bruse
Betty Patterson
Dec 25. 2015
Just to Cool.
Peggelee Christensen Kendro
Dec 25. 2015
I watched this–it looks interesting.
Elmer N Carole Schneider
Dec 26. 2015
Very interesting!
Gladys Marchbank
Dec 28. 2015
1×6″ fine line quilting ruler =$23.00 +$41.40 p&p ,, 6,8and 12″ set = $69.00 +p&p $87.00 to the uk .
Dorothy Ann Benoit
Dec 28. 2015
Steve Horn: Just for you to watch. Not that we will ever do it, but isn’t that interesting???
Yvonne White
Dec 28. 2015
What a lovely idea, thank you for sharing this idea of yours
Ann Duckworth
Dec 30. 2015
Love this simple way of quilting.
Carol Ann Tracy Rydant
Dec 30. 2015
Let me know when you try this.
Jackie Feasby
Dec 31. 2015
We have to try this Laurie Snoddon
Janet Siler
Jan 22. 2016
I love this video and have tried it. LOVE IT! I have a Gammill Charm mid arm machine and it came with a straight line guide, but it’s 12″ long. I would like to find a 6″ guide like the one in your video, but can’t seem to locate one. My machine dealer can’t seem to be of any help either. Could you direct me to somewhere where I could get one. I’m not sure what to even call it. The one that came with the machine is a gam-guide jr. Thank you for any help you could give me.