Sandra Reed Creative Machine Quilting

Quilting Styles

Edge-to-edge

Freehand

Custom

Heirloom

This style of quilting repeats the same chosen pattern throughout the quilt through the use of a pattern. The quilting can range to loose to very dense, and, depending upon the colour of threadand the pattern, can imply texture or become the main feature of the quilt. This style always uses a prepared pattern.

This style can include a meadering pattern, or a combination of patterns with no regard to placement on the quilt top.

This is specific to the quilt and/or block, and may include freehand feathers, circles, wreaths, hatching, small meanders, outline quilting, and perhaps stitch-in-the-ditch. However, SID is not the main feature of the quilting and is only used for stabilizing the quilt.

This is the type of quilting that is shown in the picture on the main page. Wholecloth quilts are of this type of quilting. The quilting is usually marked in some way before the quilting is placed. The types of quilting may include trapunto, stipple, hatching, outline stitch, SID. This is a very meticulous and time-consuming style of quilting and is usually reserved for show quilts or very special ones.