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The freemotion design Paws is one of those designs that creates a lovely texture. You just want to pet the quilt!
This design works well for quilts with themes like animals, pets, water, sea, ocean, rain, weather, wind, flying, birds, and swimming. Is there anything else that this design reminds you of?
Pattern Tutorial
Create the dynamic design Paws by moving in all directions. The design sequence its pretty simple; curve round and add a teardrop or a paisley shape inside of the curve.
The teardrop is a symmetrical shape, while the paisley is not; it has a curve. Mix ...
read moreThis cute filler freemotion design is a variation and the classic Pebble design. Add a curl on this inside to create the look of a cinnamon roll or the rolled up sides of a cinnamon stick.
The Cinnamon design works well for quilts with themes like Autumn, Fall, Winter, Christmas, cooking, pastry, cake. It can also be used in art quilts to represent water, bubbles, fossils, shells or various organic items.
Pattern Tutorial
This Pebble variation works like most do; travel around the circle to add decorative elements or to get to the spot for your next circle.
The circles ...
read moreThis meandering freemotion design Mistletoe is open, airy and whimsical. It resembles a mistletoe plant but not exactly, making this design more versatile than just a Christmas quilting design.
The design consists of a series of two leaf shapes, two feathers and one or more small circles. The circles on sticks will help you travel to a new spot for the next sequence.
Pattern Tutorial
This design is built on a sequence with three design elements: leaf shapes, feathers and a circle on a stick.
Move into the area you want to fill with your design and try to use ...
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I love creating variations of the Ribbon Candy pattern. The design Sprout resembles sprouting seeds or maybe a small flame trying to grow. Or perhaps it resembles a swamp monster if you are in the Halloween mood.
This whimsical freemotion design can be used in a wider border but it can be stitched out in rows to too as an edge to edge. It looks great in quilts with themes like plants, horticulture, nature, flame, fire, growth.
Pattern Tutorial
This design has a series of decorative elements: a curl, a set of s-curves and a set of ...
read moreThe edge to edge design Cogs is based on a soft curl surrounded by a boxy echoes and hops.
This funky design would be lovely on a quilt for a person who likes to know the inner workings of a piece of machinery. On the other hand, this freemotion design would work well within a mix of various flower designs too.
The elements within the sequence of Cogs are pretty simple. A soft curl, a series of boxy shapes as an echo around to the curl and then to complete the shape, add a series of hops around it all ...
read moreHalloween is getting closer, and I have a few small quilty projects planned to get done before then. I have shared a few freemotion designs in the past that suit the scary season, and I will share them again below.
This weeks’ design is called Hair, maybe not specifically named after Cousin Itt from the Addams family, but if the shoe fits…! The random and free-flowing design Hair looks just like ghosts flying and tumbling through the air, don’t you think? Maybe it makes you think of flowing water or kelp too. The edge to edge design Hair is ...
read moreLet’s do another zigzag design, which also works in sashings and borders. This week’s design is named Coral.
This design is based on fat curls and echoes and it can transition corners without stopping and breaking thread.
This whimsical design is very suited for projects with themes like the ocean, the sea, nature, octopus tentacles, kelp, coral, marine animals, ferns, and the forest.
Pattern Tutorial
The design can be quilted in any direction, horizontal, vertical or diagonal. In the tutorial drawings and video footage you will find all of these angles used.
In this tutorial I will use ...
read moreThis interesting and simple grid design is based on wide wishbone designs placed on top of each other. It can be used as an allover, or just in a block or border.
The design will look great on projects with a theme like farm yard animals. Don’t you think it looks like two layers of chicken wire, but then placed at right angles of each other? I can also see this pattern being used on clutch bags with a metallic thread. The grid is so beautiful!
This wishbone-based grid is pretty simple to execute once you have marked a ...
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The design Peacock is composed of pretty standard shapes, the design just look complex because various shapes are all thrown in together into one sequence.
The Peacock design is an intricate allover that is elegant and elaborate. The denser edge to edge is suited for bags, placemats and maybe even a quilt coat. It looks great on projects with themes like peacocks, birds, flowers, florals, nature, elegance, exuberance, exotic and mysterious gardens.
Pattern Tutorial
Don’t let the multi-step designs hold you back. You are probably very familiar with the separate design elements of this pattern; a ...
read moreThis sweet and magical grid design is based on a clamshell pattern. The design is pretty dense and it would be perfect for a bag or backpack. This grid design looks great on projects with themes like nature, plant, flowers, butterflies, fairies, fairytales and fantasy.
The design is pretty dense and it would be perfect for a bag or backpack. This grid design looks great on projects with themes like nature, plant, flowers, butterflies, fairies, fairytales and fantasy.
The pattern is based on the work by Jen Eskridge of Quilty Quill, and it is featured in her book “Quilted Clamshell ...
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