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Walking Foot Quilting: Beyond the Ditch
with Catherine Redford
A machine quilting class for all skill levels. Learn how to finish your quilts on a domestic machine while enjoying the control of your walking foot. This class will have something for everyone, from hesitant beginners to those with more miles on the cloth - finish with the confidence to machine quilt your projects at home!
Go beyond the ditch and dive into the world of machine quilting using a walking foot!
- Begin with the basics of preparing your quilt top, find out why pressing matters and how Catherine likes to baste her quilts
- Get to know the walking foot, make stitched samples of different styles including matchstick quilting, grids, combined stitches and serpentines
- Elevate your technique with beautiful organic curves, learn how to execute sharp turns and make accurate straight line polygon spirals and circular spirals
- Add hand stitching or contrasting threads for maximum impact
- Get inspired from a plethora of samples, get advice and consider possibilities for quilting your current projects with fellow students.
Meet the instructor!
Catherine Redford was born in England where she learned to knit and sew as a young girl. After relocating from London to Naperville, Illinois, she learned to quilt and never looked back. She's an award winning quilter, an active member of her local guilds, and a popular teacher at the local and national level. Catherine is a published author and frequent magazine contributor, and has enjoyed being the guest on Quilting Arts TV and TheQuiltShow.com.











