Placing a motif using snap to needle - custom quilting

In this video Crystal Smythe demonstrates how to use 'snap to needle' to move motifs and set them in place when doing custom quilting. This is a good method to use when the motif to be stitched isn't going to be very close to the edge of the block. If you have sized it to allow some space between the block perimeter and the stitched motif, this is the fastest method for placing a pattern that will be repeated many times on a quilt. Each block doesn't need to be marked. The space left between the motif and the block perimeter when you first set up the motif, allows for any slight difference in the piecing.

Computer arts spirograph

Here's another great video by Connie showing how to she created a design for her quilt using the spirograph pattern in the computer art pattern catalog.

Block outline patterns

In this video Angela Huffman demonstrates how to use her series of common pieced block outlines to audition quilting patterns.

To view this video on You Tube, click here.

Placing Motifs in Blocks

Placing motifs in blocks. This is an older video with a 2007 version of the software. Additional features have been added over the years so now after touching, add/edit block a page will appear with more choices. In this case, I would have touched standard block on that page, then mark on quilt on the next page.
This is a simple motif so marking all the blocks and then placing all the patterns before stitching would probably give acceptable results. For more intricate patterns that will draw up the fabric, I would mark a block, edit the pattern then immediately stitch it before working on the next block.

Produced by: Helen Baczynski
Part 1



Part 2
Setting motifs in subsequent rows - Method One



Part 3
Setting motifs in subsequent rows - Method Two