Quilting Design #37 – In Stitches

I have a fun quilting design for you today, inspired by my local Foothills Quilters Guild Quilt Show. I mention the show because our theme this year is “In Stitches” and I realized I could easily create a filler design that was not only cool, it also allowed me to shamelessly plug the show!

free motion quilting design in stitches

Learn more about this In Stitches Quilting Design:

Inspiration – I’ve known about the theme for our show for awhile, but it didn’t click until the other day. We all use stitches to make our quilts but what about Frankenstein-like stitches? I realized immediately that this would make for a terrific filler design!

Difficulty Level – Intermediate. Yes, this fill requires a lot of traveling over your previous stitching, but it’s pretty forgiving.

Design Family – Independent. Dr. Victor wasn’t a very good quilter when he put Frankenstein together so you’re not really going for perfection here.

Directional Texture – All directions. There’s really no rhyme or reason so just make sure you quilt In Stitches consistently.  Avoid leaving big gaps open as that may be more noticeable than the design overlapping a bit.

Suggestions for Use – Of course this stitch is going to come in very handy whenever you want to seam together the pieces of dead people to reanimate a new living monster. Duh! If that doesn’t float your boat, you could also use this as a terrific background fill, especially for your Halloween quilts.

This In Stitches quilting design will work even in tight areas of your quilt so feel free to put it around floral applique for a funky contradiction in texture verses shape.

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.

4 Responses

  1. Melissa says:

    It is so funny that you included a picture of Frankenstein because that is exactly what I thought of when I saw this pattern! Perfect for a Halloween wall hanging! Hope it's OK if I mention it on my blog and send people over to get it for Halloween?

  2. Leah Day says:

    Sure Melissa! Followup with a link in the comments so everyone can come and see your post.

    Let's go quilt!

    Leah Day

  3. Tanya says:

    Hi. I just joined a couple of days ago and have started making a couple squares(days 1 and 2). This would be great fun to just put all the squares together in a huge quilt at the end of the year!. Anyway I'm saving my squares for inspiration and maybe I'll find a place to use them someday. I don't know when I'll get up to today's lesson but I'm going to keep practicing. I'm sending people over from my blog too! Thank you.

  4. lalitha says:

    Hai,
    I am so happy to find your blog. Its so inspirational.I am looking forward to see the beautiful designs in coming year. May be you can combine all and bring it like a quilting calender.

    best wishes,
    lalitha

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