Gorgeous ZoYo Free Motion Quilting Tutorial - Grid Quilting!

I love grid quilting - stitching a design within a marked or pieced grid on your quilt. Let's learn how to quilt ZoYo in this tutorial:

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 Quilting ZoYo

This is a riff on the quilting design Yo-Yo we learned several months ago. I've really fallen in love with grid quilting designs. These take a little more work to quilt because you need to mark the grid on your quilt before you begin quilting.

But the finished formal look to the design is 100% worth it!

Gorgeous ZoYo Grid Quilting Design

I quilted ZoYo on my longarm using the Ditcher Ruler to help guide the design. The lines really needed to be straight and on my longarm machine, using a ruler really helps!

ZoYo quilting on a longarm

Where Should We Quilt ZoYo in Our Quilts?

ZoYo looks great in blocks, would be beautiful as an all-over design, but might be time consuming on a big quilt. 

Here's a real life quilt project inspiration: I decided to make everyone in the family new stockings before Christmas and asked my son to pick fabric and a quilting design. He picked green and blue fabric and ZoYo for quilting. I think this turned out awesome over this simple striped stocking:

ZoYo Free Motion Quilting Design

Where do you plan to quilt ZoYo? Share your ideas in the comments below!

Let's go quilt,

Leah Day

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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