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Let's Quilt Bleeding Hearts on a Home Machine and Longarm

I'm loving this heart quilting design series! This week we're learning how to quilt Bleeding Hearts on a small scale for show quilts and quilted on a big scale for bed quilts. See how this works in this new quilting video:

Tools and supplies from this quilting tutorial:

Qnique 21X Elite Longarm

Qnique 21X Elite Longarm

Sewing Machine Table

Flatbed Sewing Table

Quilting Tool Caddy

Quilting Tool Caddy

Isacord Polyester Thread

Isacord Thread

Tips for Free Motion Quilting Bleeding Hearts

Bleeding Hearts is very similar to Heart Paisley - it's a pivoting design that fills your quilts with small clusters of tear drop and heart shapes.

machine quilting tutorial Bleeding Hearts

I really like this texture and usually stitch this design with only one heart echo. Of course, you're welcome to change up the design and echo as many times as you like. This will not only take up more space on your quilt, it will add more lovely texture too!

Short on time? Click Here to find a 60 second or less version of this quilting tutorial!

Where Should We Quilt Bleeding Hearts in Our Quilts?

Bleeding Hearts can be an All-Over Quilting design stitched on a large scale for bed quilts. It can also be shrunk down and used as a filler quilting design in art quilts and wall hangings.

I found this design very fast to quilt on my Qnique 21X Elite longarm machine, especially when I could swing out and make the tear drops and hearts very large. It was challenging to quilt the shapes smaller and fit into all the tiny spaces of my quilt.

Make sure to make yourself a frame weight for added stability and control when frame quilting. I really like using mine and find my stitching just a bit neater because the machine is easier to control.

Where do you plan to quilt all of these heart-shaped designs? Share your ideas in the comments below!

Let's go quilt,

Leah Day

Find all of the lovely heart quilting designs in this mini series!

Heart Paisley Bleeding Hearts Free Motion Quilting Tutorial English Ivy Free Motion Quilting Tutorial
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Tools and supplies from this quilting tutorial:

Qnique 21X Elite Longarm

Qnique 21X Elite Longarm

Sewing Machine Table

Flatbed Sewing Table

Quilting Tool Caddy

Quilting Tool Caddy

Isacord Polyester Thread

Isacord Thread

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