APQS Video Tutorial: Feathered Arches

Feathers are a classic machine quilting motif that lend elegance and beauty to any quilt top. However, they can be challenging to the new machine quilter. Of course, the key to mastering feathers is practice but it also helps to find the feather style that you like best.

Nothing screams Zen like the sound of your APQS longarm! Use your Coronavirus social distancing time to practice this Lotus Lollipop border design from APQS Dealer and Educator, Angela Huffman. It’s perfect to add a little bit of spring to any quilt!

While quilting texture is a big part of modern quilt appeal, that texture is characterized by simple quilting designs instead of elaborate or ornate designs found in more traditional quilts.

Twenty years ago, machine quilting was considered “cheating” by a great majority of quilters, and it was rare to find a machine-quilted project among show winners. Now hand-quilted quilts make up only a small percentage of completed quilts.