thank you so much! I have a twin sized quilt I'm making for my brother that I told him I'm FMQ for the first time and he said whatever. I also told him that where I start may look a little bad and he said if you mess it up you'll just have to make me another. Well, even if I mess up, I'm not telling him! Maybe now I won't mess up. I'm also bookmarking this for future reference!!!

I am new to quilting and have only stitched in the ditch. Love, love, love this visual to try stippling. I read you can practice stitching on FELT to get the feel of a quilt sandwich. (and felt is cheap) Thanks SEW much! copycat

Thanks, copycat! I love your suggestion about practicing on felt. I'm going to pick some up today and give it a try.

I have never tried to stipple before, but your method seems so much easier to me, so I am going to give it a try. Thanks so much! :thumbup: Sue

Just in the nick of time! I've been practicing tonight to try my hand at FMQ. I was about ready to look for another method. I think this will help tremendously!

Thanks so much, I always seem to back myself into some area and my meandering gets smaller and smaller, this will be a great way to control it.

Thank you. I may be able to do it now.

Thank you verrrry much. I have been going crazy wondering how to quilt my quilt. Now I am going to try this if I ever get the quilt done,

Thanks for this explanation. I can't wait to try it.

Thanks for the tips! I definetely think this will help me as I have never really got the hang of stippling but this makes waaay more sense to me!
:)Yvie

Thanks for sharing. With this method Ithink I can do stippling.

Oh, thank you; I will try this too!

I think this will help. Thanks for sharing.

Thank You for sharing - the light came on and now I see .....

Thanks for this-it clicks with me visually seeing how you do it. I have a hard time with the meandering.

I want to try this and had no idea where to start or what to do on my machine, now I am not afraid to try this even on a practice pc....thank u for this
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That is so cool. You are a Dear for sharing. I love to share where I can as well. WAY TO GO!!

What a great idea ! I'm going to try this on my next FMQ project.

Now this makes good sense to me! Thanks Wendy for visual clarity!

Very helpful suggestions. Thank you.

Great idea. I'm going to try it.

Thank you. Hope you are having a great day!

We all have our methods, huh? I love your idea! Great to keep it orderly and well spaced! I like the poster who mentioned cactus - I do cactus and mud puddles (mud puddles for the upside down meandering). With the guide line it'll be so much more relaxing. I'm going to try this soon! Thanks for the tip!

Thanks so much for this Tutorial. I may not be so intimidated now to go for it. I also get stuck in spots. I cross lines also.

Great tip, thanks. I'll give it a try ... I can't stipple either :-(

Thanks for the tute. This makes it simple enough for me to even attempt it. I've only done sitd. This might be even easier. Wow!

What a cool idea...I must try it... Thank you

thank-you for your information

You have changed my world. I just FMQ's a lap quilt - a smallish one - in a bit over an hour. I divided into quadrants, drew snakes in each quadrant, and off I went. Found that I was keeping too close to the snake so expanded a bit. If I ended up with too much quilt under the machine I cut and restarted with the smaller side on the right - as I meandered around the snake it would turn the quilt, of course. It's not perfect, but as a first attempt that's not SITD or cross hatch - I'm THRILLED. Thank you for sharing your brainstorms with the rest of us!

Oh wow, can't wait to try that! TY

I agree...I love stippling and meandering, but yet to do a feather.

This looks like a really excellent idea to me and I am going to try it! Thank you for sharing your work!

What a great idea!! I have followed Leah Day as well, but I've never gotten the hang of stippling either. This method looks like it will work much better and I can't wait until tomorrow to try it.

Wow! This is a great help! I've never heard of Leah Day but I do believe your way is as easy as anything I've ever seen. Great Job! Thank you!

Thanks for giving this tut. It makes a little bit of sense to me - I've got to try it one of these days!

This looks like a great idea,something i can try to follow and work with. my stipples look like worms thanks for sharing this

Thanks for the tip!!!!

I love you and want to marry you. Thank you! I always get stuck, and like you, I never wanted to cross over a stitched line. This makes perfect sense to my left brain!

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YEAH!!! Thanks to your tutorial the light bulb finally went off!!!! I was struggling too because meandering and OCD does not mix well! Thanks again...

Totally agree with your OCD and meandering!!! I also want to give a big thanks!!! I will try this, too and see if my fmq gets easier...
Kif