What could be better than learning insider tips from an award-winning designer? Join embroidery expert Susan Stewart and learn how fabric piecing and quilting lines can take your embroidery beyond the hoop as you create a truly captivating wall hanging! Perfect your placement, even on pieced fabric, and learn when to stitch and when to piece. Susan will share her tricks for adding stability without sacrificing softness, and show you how to re-hoop to form magnificent borders with repeating designs. Embroider triangles without worrying about bias stretch and watch your embroidery come to life with free-motion quilting. Plus, you’ll get three exclusive Zündt designs for ample inspiration as you open up an exciting new frontier in your embroidery!
Class Sessions
Choosing Fabrics & Threads
21:22
Meet your instructor, Susan Stewart, and preview the amazing quilt you'll make from combining traditional quilting techniques with machine embroidery. Learn how color choice can dramatically change the color of your quilt as you discover which fabrics and threads work best for this project. Susan shares tips for marking and testing the first designs as you embroider the corner squares of your quilt.
Embroidering the Border & Triangular Pieces
16:34
Learn how to mark and embroider beautiful borders with repeating or mirrored designs. Discover how the swirl designs included with your class can be positioned four different ways for maximum creative freedom. Then, Susan walks you through the tricky process of embroidering on the bias as she discuses hooping and stitching the swirls featured on the quilt's triangular panels.
Piecing the Center Block
22:48
Learn how to use freezer-paper templates for precise piecing as you form the central radiating block design. Learn how to use your rotary cutter for maximum efficiency and find out which thread works best when piecing together embroidered quilts. Once you've pieced your blocks into the quilt center, learn how to mark and hoop for your four center embroidery designs.
Embroidering the Large Flowers
14:21
Put the finishing touches on the center of your quilt as you embroider four large flowers. Don't have a large hoop? No worries! Susan shows you how to split your design in two so you can use your standard 4" x 4" hoop, and offers invaluable tips for marking and lining up the design. Then, discover some nifty ways to cover up bare spots in your embroidery and sew on a narrow border around the quilt center.
Putting It All Together
17:13
Complete your quilt top as you attach the triangles you embroidered in Lesson 2 and sew on two more borders and the corner squares. Susan shares a clever trick to eliminate stretching when cutting or sewing across a bias edge. Then, learn how to sew on your borders with precision for seams that always match up!
Basic Quilting
18:48
Now that you've pieced and embroidered your top, it's time to quilt! Pick up tips for pin-basting a quilt sandwich and learn how stitching in the ditch will add dimension to your piecing, and also around your embroidery. Then, brush up on your free-motion skills as Susan demonstrates how to echo quilt. She also offers advice for students who send their quilt tops to a long-arm quilter.
Advanced Quilting
18:38
Students with more experience in free-motion quilting will love this advanced lesson in designing and quilting feathers around the embroidered swirls. Learn how to mark and quilt your feathers with Susan's expert tips. Add more echoing and Susan's easy and captivating background fill pattern. Your quilt will be richly textured in no time! Finally, set your imagination loose as Susan offers samples of her embroidered quilts. They are as inspiring as they are beautiful!
Your Instructor
Susan Stewart
Susan Stewart was a primary designer for Martha Pullen Company for fifteen years, and instructed many of the companys bi-annual school events through 2012. She has had dozens of feature articles in Sew Beautiful Magazine, including a tips and tricks column, Sue Says. In 2004, Susan became interested in incorporating machine embroidery into her quilts, which have been featured in multiple publications and won various awards, notably at Houston International Quilt Festival and the American Quilters Society show. Four of her pieces are permanently featured at the National Quilt Museum.
The Machine Embroidery Inspired Quilt - Zundt ART.zip (313 KB)
The Machine Embroidery Inspired Quilt - Zundt DST.zip (129 KB)
The Machine Embroidery Inspired Quilt - Zundt EXP.zip (106 KB)
The Machine Embroidery Inspired Quilt - Zundt HUS.zip (100 KB)
The Machine Embroidery Inspired Quilt - Zundt JEF.zip (103 KB)
The Machine Embroidery Inspired Quilt - Zundt PCS.zip (245 KB)
The Machine Embroidery Inspired Quilt - Zundt PES.zip (295 KB)
The Machine Embroidery Inspired Quilt - Zundt SEW.zip (113 KB)
The Machine Embroidery Inspired Quilt - Zundt VIP.zip (100 KB)
The Machine Embroidery Inspired Quilt - Zundt VP3.zip (105 KB)
The Machine Embroidery Inspired Quilt - Zundt XXX.zip (103 KB)
Bonus Materials available for download after purchase.
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