I let my quilting friends Lee a day here with a new free motion quilting tutorial today I am stitching vertigo this is one of my favorite spiraling designs I'm just pulling around with it adding some thread painting and this is gonna be a terrific stacking spiraling design for your quilts it is a little on the too intense side so I would say this is a great choice as like an accent design for your quote I probably wouldn't take it and try and cover the entire quilt with it that would take a little while okay so let's talk through it first you're gonna start with a circle shape nice circular shape and if you can't visualize that basically what I do is I'm always thinking about that Center dot that's what I have in my head as I swing around I'm visualizing that Center dot on the quell so now I'm gonna spiral into that imaginary center dot and here's the thing like that's in my head that's something I can see in my head but if you need a market like I just did please do so then I swirl into a circle and then I just keep circling and circling and circling and that adds a nice thread painting circle to the center and then now stitch right through the middle of those lines to get all the way back out again a little bit of travel stitching just to reach the next open space and now let's stitch a little vertigo circle spiral right here it didn't end up all that little but that's okay so this time I'm not gonna use any sort of marks I'm just eyeballing it I'm just imagining where that Center is and then swirling inside if it was off who cares I'm not gonna pull it pick up a seam ripper and rip it out I'm just gonna keep going because that's the thing even if you made a mistake with this your eye isn't gonna catch it you're gonna see all of the different spirals kind of swirling together you're not gonna see the one that you accidentally messed up you know so we have some weird areas as usual this just happens in any quilting design so the best thing to do is just fill it in with some gentle arching shapes that's what I came up with after putting my finger on the diz and that's kind of what you get when you cut it in half just some simple arching shapes that'll be fine so now I'm gonna fit in a smaller one let's see what happens when we shrink this down you're gonna spiral in but you notice how quickly that spiral it wasn't a lot of turns before I got right into the center and that's okay because as I come out I can swing all the way around and that'll fill that in consistently with the rest of the shapes again I've got a little weird area here I'm just gonna bounce and bounce in order to fill it in that's just fine you know sometimes when I look like at a space like this I really want to estimate my space to fill it in completely so I don't end up with those little weird gaps so sometimes I'll grab my marking pencil and just going ahead and mark that outline of that shape and maybe a few shapes around it just to plan it out a little bit and that can save you time a lot of times filters get a little confused about marking you know it seems like it's more time consuming or that it would be tedious but in actual fact I think marking a design can sometimes help speed you up and make you a little bit faster certainly I'm going to stitch both of these shapes a little faster because I know exactly where they're supposed to go so here this one was half cut off but I still managed the spiral shape inside of it and so now I'm travel stitched down and I can form this circle shape right between those two swirl in and another thing you might want to do is alter the size of your thread painting center dot just a bit for the sizes of your circles so like this really big one I had a really big center dot for this little tiny baby one I had a really small Center dot you know or you can keep it consistent throughout kind of play with that and just see what effects that you can get all of these different decisions these are just design decisions and yes they will affect how your quilt ends up looking in the end and here's what it looks like whenever you finish Vertigo so that's it for this video my name is Leah day and I love teaching people how to machine quilt on their home machine if you'd like to learn more about quilting real quilts like the quote behind me join me for the machine quilting block party each month you'll learn how to piece a block and how to quilt it with a variety of beautiful designs and quilting techniques check it out at Leah DICOM slash block party until next time let's go quilt