Free Motion Quilting Design #19 – Checkerboard

Do you like playing checkers? I have an awesome new free motion design for you today called Checkerboard:

Learn more about free motion quilting Checkerboard:

free motion quilting design checkerboard

Inspiration: I was pondering Circuit Board and wondering if I stuck with the same idea: straight, intersecting lines, but what would happen if I put the whole thing on a grid?

Thus Checkerboard was born!

Difficulty Level: Intermediate. Getting the lines right to start can be tricky, but otherwise this is a fairly easy piece to fill.

Design Family – Edge to Edge.

Directional Texture: This is a very attention getting design, so although I don’t think it has full directional texture, we’re going to have to call it something different, maybe “Attention Getting”?

Suggestions for Use: The lines draw your eye, so you’ll want to put this design where you don’t mind a little distraction. So placing it behind a very complicated applique block would be a bad idea. Maybe in the sashing or over simple, pieced blocks like 9 patches.

Let’s go quilt,

Leah Day

LeahDay

Leah Day has been teaching online since 2009. She's the creator of the Free Motion Quilting Project, a blog filled with thousands of quilting tutorial videos. Leah has written several books including 365 Free Motion Quilting Designs, Explore Walking Foot Quilting with Leah Day, and Mally the Maker and the Queen in the Quilt.

2 Responses

  1. I LOVE this design. I should really try it out on one of my quilt tops. I've got a great Katie Pasquini Masopust fabric in my stash that is similar except that the lines are more curvy.

  2. Joyce says:

    I just found your site through Laura's site and I am so impressed! I just added you to my blog roll so I'll be back.

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