

I’ve tried to teach several of my friends how to stipple. For all other purposes, please contact me at Thanks! Feel free to re-blog, share with attribution to The Inbox Jaunt. PS…All tutorials, images and information are the property of Lori Kennedy at The Inbox Jaunt and is intended for personal use only. So if you’re one of the many people who has trouble with Stippling or Meandering…you are NORMAL! Just move on… there are so many choices… Whereas instructions like: Stitch amoebas, don’t cross over, wiggle…are much more difficult to follow. Stitch a half circle…we can all follow these directions….(especially when there’s a photo to go with it!)

Instructions like: Start on the bottom line, stitch straight up. Here’s the reason: Our brain works fastest when we tell it what we SHOULD DO, not when we tell it what NOT to do… Whenever one of the little Tykes started running on the wet pavement (very dangerous)-the life guards were instructed to shout “WALK!”… They didn’t shout “DON’T RUN!”… When my daughters were in high school, they were all life guards at our local swimming pool. Stick with me a minute…while I share a story… REALLY? No wonder so many beginners get frustrated and quit Free Motion Quilting! “Stitch a wiggling, meandering line that doesn’t cross itself.”.“Stippling is closely spaced, random quilting lines that do not cross and are gently curved.”.I did a quick Google search of how to stipple and here are some of the descriptions and directions: Now, I know many of you like these stitches, and it’s nothing personal…it’s just that every beginner is told to “just stipple”…

As I have mentioned many times, I want to Ban the Stipple quilting stitch and it’s larger cousin, the Meander stitch.
