Fun with Free Motion Quilting - Quilt Guild Program Video

Ready to bring a program to your quilt guild — without the airfare?

Fun with Free Motion Quilting is a one-hour machine quilting class with Leah Day made specifically for quilt guilds and bees. Instead of paying a traveling speaker’s lecture fee, flights, hotel, and meals, you buy this presentation once and share it with every member of your group.

And because this is a video, I can teach far more in an hour than I ever could standing at the front of your meeting room with a trunk of quilts - real, close-up, step-by-step free motion quilting instruction in a 1 hour presentation everyone in your quilt guild will enjoy.

Why Quilt Guilds Love This Virtual Presentation

• One purchase covers your whole guild. Any size group, one price. There’s no per-member fee and no license to renew — even a 500-member guild buys it just once.
• It’s yours to keep — forever. Download the video and save it to a flash drive. Now you have a ready-to-go program on the shelf for any month a speaker cancels or plans fall through. Every program chair knows that feeling — this is your safety net.
• You control the pace. Pause, rewind, and rewatch any section your members want to see again. You can’t do that with a live speaker.
• Works in person or online. Show it on a projector or large smart TV at your meeting, or send the link out in your newsletter for members to watch from home. Embed the video within the password protected area of your guild's website as well. All of this is allowed and encouraged!
• It’s real teaching, not fluff. This isn’t a trunk show that’s here and gone by dessert — it’s an hour of genuine, hands-on machine-quilting instruction your members can take home and try tonight.
• Captions included. On-screen subtitles, hand-edited for accuracy, so every member can follow along — a real help in larger rooms and for hearing-impaired members.

What Guild Members Will Learn

In one hour, your guild will learn how to begin free motion quilting on a regular home sewing machine:

• Five simple filler designs to start stitching right away
• How to set up your sewing machine for free motion quilting
• Whether you really need to drop your feed dogs (the answer surprises people)
• How to tell if you’re having a tension problem — and how to fix it
• What learning to free motion quilt realistically looks like, so beginners feel encouraged instead of discouraged

Everyone takes home the Citrus Slice practice design

Included in your download is my Citrus Slice practice motif — a one-page printable you can hand out to every member. They trace and stitch right on the marked lines, so they leave your meeting with something to practice in their hands, not just notes. It’s the perfect first step for a nervous beginner.

How This Quilt Guild Video Presentation Works

1. Buy once. After checkout you’ll get an email — usually within minutes — with your download link.
2. Open the PDF. Inside you’ll find simple instructions for your Program Chair, the one-page Citrus Slice handout for members, and a link to watch and download the presentation on Vimeo.
3. Download and save the video. Save it to your computer, then copy it onto a USB flash drive (you’ll want a drive with enough free space for the file — about 8 GB). Make a couple of copies so your guild always has access.
4. Share it your way. Play it at your meeting on a projector or smart TV, add a flash-drive copy to your guild library, or email the link and PDF to members for online meetings.

Not sure how you’ll show it? Many program chairs rent a digital projector and screen from their local library for the evening. Check your local library a couple of weeks ahead to see what equipment rentals are available.

Is this right for your quilt guild?

Leah Day has been teaching machine quilting online since 2009 and is the author of 365 Free Motion Quilting Designs. She built this presentation so any English-speaking guild can learn free motion quilting together, wherever they meet.

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