One of the things most fun about free motion quilting is the freedom to do so many different designs with thread, your sewing machine and your creativity. It really is boundless! If you work in the abstract arts as I do, these freedoms allow you to pick and choose how to accentuate colors or designs
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Quilt Stitching to enhance Mosaic Art Quilts
This blog is about some different approaches to quilting a mosaic quilt. One of my favorite free motion designs is a random repeating and overlapping square pattern. I hesitate to use the word “pattern” as that denotes something quite specific in the quilt world, something often repetitive and strictly drawn. My quilting approaches are neither.
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QUILT STITCHING for a contemporary garden quilt
This fall I have been exploring a variety of flower motifs. After finishing a rather challenging “Three Red Poppies” art quilt, I decided to experiment with a very contemporary garden quilt design using the reds and greens from the poppy quilt combined with an orange/pale green background batik. As I’m sure I’m mentioned in previous
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QUILT STITCHING free motion for curved piecing
I’ve had the most fun with a wide variety of quilt stitches in abstract curves art quilts. I like to make these art quilts by starting first with an interesting, often modern print, and then building the other fabrics and colors around that print. Sometimes I put on a significant border into which you can
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QUILT Stitching to enhance a background
The quilt stitching I’m discussing today is for a unique art quilt with three red poppies on a dynamic but neutral background. As with all my quilts, this one is pieced so the background is in many different pieces as it is added around the poppy pieces. The background fabric is absolutely part of the
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QUILT STITCHING on a sun design quilt
I love making bright sun design quilts. Reds, oranges, and yellows are some of my favorite colors though I must confess to loving just about any color as long as it is dynamic. This is my second blog discussing how to use some varied free motion designs in a sun quilt to create more excitement
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QUILT AS DESIRED….Deciding how to quilt a quilt
When I first began to learn how to quilt, I bought several books to teach myself ideas, techniques, and some basics about design and color. My first year I made some of the quilts shown in the books to practice skills. I always came to the end of the quilt “how to” directions and encountered
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