Tracy I can't count the number of times I have lessoned to your tutorials. They are encouraging and very honest. Great encouragement for a beginner quilter!!!😊

What a Fantastic idea!!! This is a great hack so thank you for sharing.

You are great!!! You’re so down to earth, friendly, have lots of experience, and great tutorials like this one! Thank you!!❤️. New Subscriber!

Doodling with a pencil on paper is actually the opposite of what you do at the machine. I tried to figure out how to rig up a pencil so I could move paper under it, but my imagination and skill failed me. Thank you for solving this problem for me! It's so simple, but ingenious! I am deeply grateful and am looking forward to finally conquering some simple free-motion.

I practice with my machine unthreaded. Then I might thread machine and practice stitching. When I cover material all over and want to practice more I thread again with another color. Do this as many times as you wish. The different color stitches lets me see how well I am doing. When you have covered practice piece and need a new one use it to make a potholder interlining.

What a great idea!! I'm going to definitely try this!!

I have not started free motion quilting because I was moving to stiffly! This is an amazing way to learn!!!

You’re really VERY Clever, I may not be a quilter yet, but I certainly know a brilliant idea when I see it :)

❤😊 Thank's Ur Awesome, Great Teaching, Great idea, Enjoying ❤😊

Oh my Goodness! I have watched so many different tutorials on Free Motion Quilting & I still wasn't sure what to do or how to... and really was afraid to try it. But then I seen your tutorial!! This is Fantastic & you make it so Simple to understand!! I thank you so very much for making this 🙂🙃🤗

Ahhhh Tracy- Another Genius Hack! I Love 💕 This! What a game changer, no more wasting materials and I can practice over and over again! I’m definitely implementing this in my arsenal tips and tricks that are mostly from You Dear! Thank You for Sharing Your Ideas 💡 with Us! 😊❤😊🥰👍🥰

Very clever! I love the idea, much better than just wasting fabric and batting!

That is such a neat idea! I will have to try this, since I have been wanting to start to learn how to free motion quilt.

Great idea! I have everything ready to go,printed patterns to place under a vinyl shower curtain to practice on. And as someone else suggested, 1 inch lines drawn to practice cursive o's,e's and c's. However even the shortest marker will not fit on throat of my machine. I will mount on front in line with needle and see how it goes. Practice is practice, memory skills here I come!

Fantastic idea. Can't wait to try. Saving thread and wear and tear on machine!!!!!

I'd definitely be holding the fabric closer to the needle as I FMQ - at the end. It feels like to me, the foot is too close to the fabric - as it is pushing it. I find the hack an interesting idea though I just "do it" and don't really practice all that much. I figure that I can practice all day and never feel like I'm 'there', so I just do it.

Wow what a brilliant idea, thank you.

This is genius! I am going to practice my feathers and much more. Thanks so much. Love your channel, especially your trips to good will.

This is a great hack! I am getting ready to do my first freemotion attempt, now I have a way to practice before I actually put my beloved quilt on the machine so maybe I won’t ruin it! Thank you so much!

Love this sooooo much. What a grand idea. Thank you!!

What a great idea!!! I too did not enjoy throwing away fabric that I practiced on. I will be practicing more from now on.

Great hack. Will definitely give its a try. Thank you

What a fabulous idea!! I have been so intimidated to try free motion quilting but after seeing this trick... I've got to try it!! Thanks for sharing Tracy!!

Love this, save so much thread, fabric and batting. Never thought about doing this. This is fantastic

I’ve wanted to free-motion quilt but it seemed so intimidating. This is fantastic. I can’t wait to try it

This is one of the best learning tools for quilting I have seen ! I've also been down the quilt sandwich road over and over. I'm sewing a Christmas panel quilt and I have had the top done for 2 weeks now by I just can't seem to figure out the quilting. Some of it will be simple outlines with some echoing but there are areas I want to do a meandering loopy line with stars and I think this will be a great way to practice! Thank you so much for for sharing this wonderful technique.

Thank you. Very helpful.❤

I loved the dry erase marker with the vinyl fuse. I am much more comfortable with FM since using your idea! Thank-you so much!!!!

Such good ideas; thank you for passing them along.

You are so brilliant thank you for such a great tip. I’ve been practising on a piece of plexiglass with an erasable marker, but using my machine that’s a brilliant brilliant idea. Thank you so so much.

Thank you so much for this video. I have been wanting to start free motioning, so I can use that money on more fabric!! I appreciate these type of videos.

Tracy you make this look so easy thanks for your havk

This is awesome Never have seen this technique before. Perfect to start over with just erasing. I love Thank you

Tracy this is an aweso.e money saver! Thanks for always thinking for me!

This the best jaw dropping tip for free motion quilting! Love this!!

Great idea. This can be a real game changer to get confidence to go for it!

Great free motion hack. I’ll have to practice with this.

What a great hack! Thank you so much! Takes the fear out of it! And the waste.

This was a great hack to find out about. Can’t wait to get my vinyl and play around. Thanks for the great idea.

This is brilliant!

I love learning from you.Love your teaching videos.

Brilliant!

Fabulous idea! Thank you for sharing.❤

I love this!! Can't wait to try it!! I use my messed quilt sandwiches for coaters lol Thank you so much for sharing! :) Happy sewing!!

You never cease to amaze me!

Your tips for binding and stipling are magic.i ve done both before and all I got was massive frustration.i am now going to try these techniques.am self taught and soo far your channel has been awesome for a novice.thank you soo much.love it.Odette from Queensland Australia.soo many blessings and much gratitude.

What a brilliant idea. Thank you for sharing. I am going to try this.

I think you did great. No one is perfect, but that also means each piece is a one of a kind. That sounds like art to me.

This is fantastic!

Great information. Thanks for sharing.

I am so glad that I found this. I am going to try this.

Wow! I love this technique! Thanks for sharing!

Brilliant! I needed this ! Thank You!!

Tracy is an awesome teacher😊

How fantastic. I also love quilting to classical music how inspirational

This is brilliant i saw this once finally found this again so will be doing this. thank you

I love this idea. Such a good way to practice the meandering. I'm going to definitely going to try this. Love your channel.

Very, very cleaver, Tracy! You are truly an outside-the-box thinker. I've heard of making practice free motion quilt sandwiches out of sheets of paper towels, which can then be used for household cleaning and thrown away afterward (re-use, re-cycle). While I've not yet had the nerve to try free motion quilting yet, when I do I'm going to first try the paper towel method while looking at the quilt pattern I wish to try to replicate. If that doesn't work, I'll try chalk stamping the pattern on a paper towel quilt sandwich. The nice thing about free motion quilting on fabric with a busy design like a scrap quilt, is that any mistakes will probably be very difficult to see once the quilt is washed and dried. The maker of the quilt will probably be the only person who can find the mistake unless it's blatantly obvious. Hmmm.... maybe a scrappy quilt should be where I start free motion quilting on fabric. Thanks for another thought-provoking video, Tracy!!! You're the bomb! 😀 🙋🏻‍♀️

You malady, have inspired me beyond belief to jump on the free motion quilting wagon, Thanks for your great teaching and inspiration! ❤

Love your idea of the vinyl sandwich I am a first time quilter, and I think this is going to help me a lot

This made my day! Fantastic idea! Thank you so much♥️♥️♥️

This is a PHENOMENAL idea! I need to practice. Thank you for sharing this with us. 😊❤🎉

This is brilliant! What a great idea and process! 💕

Awesome hack! Thanks for your great idea!

Great idea and I will definitely will have to try this. Thank you for sharing.

Absolutely a great IDEA!!

Absolutely brilliant! 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻

I’m going to use this. Thanks

That is going to get me to try and free motion at Last. I have always been scared of trying free motion, scared of messing up fabric that's not cheap to buy. Now, I will be so much more confident in trying it. Thank you!

What a great idea!

This is a great idea for practicing free motion quilting but I used clear magic cover shelving vinyl from the dollar tree. It's also great to use as transfer paper for your vinyl projects. Thanks for the tip.

Amazing!! Never would have thought of this 🤔. Thank you so very much ❤

Fantastic idea!!! I will be trying that in the near future!!! Thanks, Tracy!!! HUUUUUGGGGSSS!!!!! 🌹🌹🌹

I love this tutorial. It is all the problems beginners like me have. Thank you

what a great idea

Very clever!!!

Love this idea which i will definitley try. Thank you for sharing a unique way to practice free motion quilting. 🤗

Thank you for this suggestion. I just made one of these to practice on. This. Is. Awesome!!!!!! Thank you very much. :)

Oh man! Genius! Thank you!

That is awesome!!! Im definitely going to try it!! Thank you!!

Wow, with this technique 👌, you don't waste material or thread. Love it. Just found your channel. Thanks

Awesome experience to watch and learn!!🤗

My quilting friend led me to your You Tube video's and WOW I am so happy to have found you, thank you for sharing all of your wonderful sewing tips that help us to learn more about "sewing".

I really enjoyed your tutorial, thanks a million ❤

This is way cool!! I'm gonna try it!! Thanks for sharing.

This is a fantastic idea! Thanks for sharing!

This was a great idea to attach a pen with your sewing machine . Thank you for sharing

WOW...What a great idea!

I LOVE THIS IDEA!

Thanks for this awesome tutorial! Takes the intimidation out of it

Great idea love you vedio's Thank you

What an excellent idea. Thank you.

I love this idea

Wow, best idea yet! Thank You!

What a great way to practice.

Thank you, Tracy..this is sew informative.

Great idea!

Ingenious! I am going to give this a go! Makes sense to me and I hate throwing away sandwich after sandwich. Thank you very much😊

Very, very helpful! Thanks for sharing 😊

This is an amazing hack! I too hate using up batting for getting my muscle memory. Will definitely give this a try!