Welcome to Week 4!

Tips for Quilting the Leafy Meander.

The trickiest part to quilting any meander is getting comfortable with maneuvering around an area. But it doesn’t have to be frustrating! Here’s 4 tips for changing direction with your leaves.

1. Echo around previously quilted leaves.

You don’t have to echo around the leaf that you just quilted, you can quilt around whole sections of leaves. This will help you get from one point to another as quickly as possible. The trick is to keep the spacing consistent.

2. Start a New Leaf at a Point

 Adding a new leaf at the point of a previous one, may look weird at first, but as you echo around it, it won’t be noticeable at all.

3. Quilt a “Wrap Around” Leaf. 

If you can’t fit the whole leaf in an area, just quilt it until it runs into a previously quilted leaf. 

4. Make the echo lines touch.

If you realize that you need to stop immediately and grab a glass of wine  quilt another leaf, just run the echo line into the previously quilted echo line. 

The main idea is that you don’t have to quilt the first leaf in any particular way, just quilt a pointy shape and echo, echo, echo.