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Ready to Free Motion Quilt? Start With These 6 Designs

Nothing is cut out. Six free motion designs, thirty two minutes, stitched one after another, and you watch the whole session including the parts where the line wobbles. That turns out to be the useful bit.

Mary from Mary Go Round Quilts works through the six on a domestic machine, a Baby Lock Lyric. Free motion is usually demonstrated on a longarm or a sit down frame. What she is doing, you can do at your own table, on the machine you already own. The order is deliberate. She opens with stippling, the one most quilters meet first, and builds toward the shapes that ask more of your hands and your planning. Pebbles and the swirl are at that end.

The six are stippling at 0:32, loops at 5:20, circle in a circle at 9:12, the swirl at 13:30, pebbles at 19:20, and wavy lines at 25:12. Each gets four to six minutes, long enough to watch the rhythm settle rather than just see the finished texture. She calls all six edge to edge, meaning they run across a whole quilt top rather than sit inside a single block.

It went up in May 2026 and has passed 3,700 views.

Pebbles and the swirl are the reason to watch even if you already stipple comfortably. Both ask you to travel back over ground you have already covered, and to hold a curve steady while your hands change direction. Watching someone work a long stretch of them at normal pace beats a diagram.

If you want the whole path written out, from dropping the feed dogs to deciding which design belongs where, we wrote it in our guide to free motion quilting designs.

The rest of Mary's tutorials are on her channel at Mary Go Round Quilts.

More from us.All our step by step quilting guides, with the cutting charts and the diagrams, sit on one page: The Fabric Hut quilting tutorials.

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