Day 47 – Cubing

What do you get when you take Pebbling and replace the circles with squares? Cubing!

free motion quilting design cubing

This kind of reminds me of mosaic tile floors and back splashes. Can you tell I’m already up to my ears in kitchen construction?

Inspiration – I’m sure it’s obvious by now that Pebbling is one of my favorite designs. Today I was looking at the texture again and thought “What would happen if I used squares instead of circles?”

It’s amazing how easy it is to create variations of tried and true designs.

Difficulty LevelIntermediate. There’s a lot of traveling in this design and it can be tricky to keep your squares random while still filling your space with squared shapes.

Design FamilyStacking. Like Pebbling, Cubing is created by stacking square shapes repeatedly over the space. This will work really well in small, tight areas, as well as over your whole quilt.

Directional Texture – No Directions. This is a flat design that is rich in texture, but your eye will not be pulled in any particular direction.

Suggestions for Use – Like Pebbling, Cubing is time consuming so unless you want to sign yourself up for a 6 month long quilting project, I’d avoid using this is huge areas.

Try small details like the bottom of a landscape quilt, the centers of flowers, or the cornerstones within the sashing. Small touches of this rich texture will look very anywhere on the quilt.

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. roolen says:

    Amazing quilting! I haven't seen anything similar to it.

  2. Hope says:

    Leah: The Cubing is very sophisticated. I love it, and thanks again for your generosity.

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