A Recap of Quilt Canada 2025 - Day 2

Inspired Free Motion Quilting

   

Fridays, full-day workshop at Quilt Canada 2025 was “Inspired Free Motion Quilting”.

Inspired Free Motion Quilting, class sample

Students learned how to use straight-line quilting (stitched with either a walking foot or ruler foot and template), to divide negative space into sections that add areas of calm to accent their free motion quilting.

They chose their favourite design from a variety of stencils to quilt the center of a table runner, then learned and stitched a simple background fill to quilt the area around the stencil.

To complete the runner, they learned how to stitch four of my exclusive, free motion quilting designs.

Everyone made wonderful progress and went home armed with the knowledge of how to complete their masterpieces.

Thank you to Husqvarna VIKING Canada for providing the beautiful TOPAZ 50, sewing and embroidery machines for my classroom.

Quilt Canada 2025 - A Quilty Sew & Tell

For "A Quilty Show and Tell", each of the participating Quilt Canada instructors were asked to present a fifteen-minute mini workshop, trunk show, and PowerPoint, showcasing our quilting journey and what we do.

This is an incredibly fun format, kind of like a quilter's version of speed dating!

Presenters were myself (Julie Plotniko), Brett Lewis, Ruth Ann Berry, Tina Harris, Celeste Compion, Orbital Quilting (Aline and Natasha Bugarin), Tamara Kate Serroa, and Ana Buzzalino