Day 41 – Sea Algae

I know yesterday’s Trilobite design might have been a bit over the top, so today I’m taking it down a notch with a very easy doodle-inspired design called Sea Algae:

Inspiration – This basic design began it’s life as a doodle, but this morning I was passing Josh’s reef tank and noticed the large amounts of stringy green hair algae.

While I coexist in a house with no less than 7 fish tanks, I very rarely actually look inside them. Fish are my husband’s domain and as foreign to me as a 1/4″ seam allowance is to him.

It turns out that this stringy hair algae is actually a pest and can take over his tank if Josh isn’t careful. Of course prolific weeds are often the very best makers for a continuous line free motion design!

Difficulty Level – Intermediate. Can you draw a question mark? Yes, you can quilt this design!

Just keep your lines consistent and try not to pause in the middle of a smooth curve. This can often create noticeable bumps in your curve where you stop and start again.

Design Family – Edge to Edge.

Directional Texture – 2 directions. The way I’ve quilted this, it’s a definite edge to edge design, causing it to have definite horizontal and vertical texture.

Of course, this would look entirely different stitched as a meandering line, so feel free to create millions of variations as you see fit.

Suggestions for Use – I think this design would look really beautiful expanded to a bigger scale and used to fill up the whole surface of a quilt.

It could also work wonderfully to fill in the background areas of traditional quilt blocks.

Let’s go quilt,

Leah Day

Day 42 – Sea Oats

Day 40 – Trilobite