Quilting Made Easy

You have pieced a beautiful quilt top. You have selected the perfect quilt batting and backing fabric. You are ready to quilt this three layer sandwich of textiles together. Do you want to tackle this yourself with your home machine? Quilting Made Easy can help you do it! In fact, with a little practice, you may find that the quilting part of the process is a lot of fun and that this company’s name rings true–machine Quilting Made Easy!

Quilting Made Easy creates quilting patterns for use with home machines. The 100 Series patterns for borders are intended for beginning machine quilters who are using a regular stitching or walking foot. Series 200, 300, and 400 patterns require a darning or free-motion foot. Free motion Quilting Made Easy patterns in Series 200 are for blocks; Series 300 are for stipples; and Series 400 are for borders. Every Quilting Made Easy pattern is rated with a 1, 2, or 3 level of difficulty to make it easier for the sewist to choose a pattern appropriate for her familiarity with machine quilting.

Quilting Made Easy borders, called Borders Made Easy, are repositionable, adhesive strips of tear-away, printed, pattern paper. These Borders Made Easy quilting patterns include the corners, and many of them may be echoed for extra wide quilt borders. These quilting borders on a roll are 26 feet long.

Stipples Made Easy by Quilting Made Easy, are self-adhesive patterns that make it easy for sewists to quilt using their home machines. The stitches in stipple quilting flow in continuous lines, allowing the sewist to stitch without stopping. You may be wondering how to use Stipples Made Easy. Start by calculating how many packages of a particular stipple pattern you will need to purchase. Each roll of quilting Stipples Made Easy is labeled with a specific width. To determine how much you need, divide the length of your quilt top by the width of the stipple pattern you wish to use. This will tell you how many rows of stipple pattern you will need to lay across your quilt. Next, multiply the number of strips by the width of the quilt top in inches. Then divide by 12 to calculate the number of feet of pattern you will need. Each roll of Quilting Made Easy stipple pattern is 26 feet long. If you are using stipple or border patterns for the first time, check out this free tutorial on the Quilting Made Easy website.

Quilting on a Roll by Quilting Made Easy, is similar to Stipples Made Easy except that it does not have adhesive strips on the back. These patterns can be attached to your quilt with pins or temporary adhesive spray. Quilting on a Roll could be used for borders, sashing, or continuous patterns over an entire quilt. Each Quilting Made Easy roll has 50 feet of pattern. There are some Quilting on a Roll patterns that can be sewn with a regular stitching or walking foot and others that must be sewn with a darning or free-motion foot. Because several of these Quilting Made Easy stencils are rated Level of Difficulty 1, this might be a great option for a first time home quilter.

Maybe you want to quilt each individual block rather than an all-over pattern. Quilting Made Easy has a solution for that too! Blocks Made Easy are quilting patterns for quilt blocks. These self-adhesive Blocks Made Easy quilting patterns require a darning or free-motion foot. They come 12 or 24 blocks per roll in a variety of sizes for finished quilt blocks. Most of these Quilting Made Easy tear away patterns are rated Level of Difficulty 2.

Quilting Made Easy patterns–as their name indicates–are easy tools that provide guidelines to help you stitch your quilt together using beautiful designs. These quilting stencils on a roll help a quilter achieve professional results with a home sewing machine. If you have never quilted your own quilt before, you might want to give it a try with the help of Quilting Made Easy! Missouri Star is proud to carry a selection of these clever products.