Day 133 – Delilah

It’s been more than a week with no new filler designs! I don’t know about you, but I’m going through withdrawal!

Let’s feed our addiction to free motion quilting with a new design based off of the huge dahlia flowers I love in the summer:

free motion quilting | Leah Day

I’ve had this design in my head since the start of the project, but for some reason didn’t get around to quilting a sample until now.

Sometimes I catch myself losing track of the designs I’ve done and those still bouncing around in my brain. With more than 100 designs done, it’s easy to get confused!

When I think of Dahlia flowers, I’m always reminded of the song “Hey there Delilah…” which was so popular last summer.

Difficulty LevelIntermediate. This design can be a bit tricky to keep consistent because the triangle shapes don’t always want to squish together consistently.

I also mention in the video how I didn’t really like designs with sharp angles when I was first getting started free motion quilting. It took some practice and patience before I finally started to like designs like these. 

Design Family – Center Fill. This design starts in the center of your quilting space and radiates out. This makes for a design that will be easy to stitch in the open, uncomplicated areas of your quilt.

free motion quilting | Leah DayDirectional Texture – Center focused. It’s kind of hard to ignore the huge flower shape with this design. Make sure to place it somewhere that you want loads of attention.

Suggestions for Use – Remember my applique circle quilt from way back in the fall? I picked up this quilt pattern from the Guildcrafters Quilt Shop after running a search for circle quilt patterns.

I haven’t managed to get back to that quilt, but one day I will and I’ll use a different center focused filler design in all 70 circles. I’m sure it will make for a cool quilt if I ever manage to finish it!

Back of Delilah
free motion quilting | Leah DayFeel free to use this free motion filler designs in your quilts,

and make sure to tell your friends where you learned it.

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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.

1 Response

  1. Ethne says:

    What a stunning design – it will be prefect for your applique circle quilt – I fancy and 'I do' quilt sometime and I'll be keeping this design in mind for it
    Thanks Leah
    How's the new quilt coming on? are you fusing?

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