Walking Foot Quilting: From Simple to Spectacular

With over 20 years of experience teaching walking-foot quilting—and a friendly, enthusiastic style that makes technical skills feel refreshingly human—Catherine Redford shows you how to quilt on a domestic machine without the drama. This course gives you a clear, confidence-boosting system for walking-foot quilting, turning wobbly lines and runaway spirals into crisp, controlled designs. If you’re tired of quilt wrestling and ready for quilting that behaves itself, this is your new game plan.

You’ll start things off with the essentials: how fabric, batting, thread, needles, pressing, and basting quietly make or break your results. Catherine demystifies walking-foot and dual-feed systems so you know exactly how to set them up, fine-tune them, and fix them when they get feisty. Once the basics are locked in, you’ll build out your design toolkit—ditch quilting, straight lines, tidy grids, altered and combined stitches, soft curves, and spirals that stay perfectly on track. Throughout the course, Catherine shares practical strategies for preventing drag, taming bulky seams, choosing designs that flatter your quilt top, and keeping your stitches consistent.

Explore techniques that take your quilting beyond the ditch—literally and creatively. Add texture with thoughtful hand stitching, spotlight focal areas with intentional design choices, and learn when walking-foot quilting can team up with free motion for even bigger possibilities down the road. Your enrollment also includes a downloadable copy of Modern Machine Quilting,Catherine’s comprehensive guide to walking-foot and free-motion quilting on a domestic machine. Her focus on smart sequencing, repeatable routines, and professional finishing touches keeps everything grounded and achievable. By the end, you’ll have a flexible, design-savvy approach to walking-foot quilting that takes your projects from simple to spectacular.