Day 146 – Slanted Paisley

Today I looked back at Ying Yang and really felt this design needed a slight variation. I played around with curving the design up and thought it looked like a Slanted Paisley:

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I’ve been playing hooky! Saturday I was off to South Carolina to teach my very first workshop to Nimble Thimbles. They’re such an awesome guild, I really wish I lived closer so I could join!

Today I’ve been busy creating new free motion designs, shooting some videos, and trying to put everything back in order. I’ve also started a new quilt design for a quilt I’m calling Shadow Self which I share a bit later when it’s further along.

So before I run off to start another new project, let’s learn how to quilt Slanted Paisley:

Inspiration – I’ve been looking at several sign and symbol books and both Ying Yangs and the 69 symbol have always popped out at me begging for more attention.

I really think this worked pretty well in free motion and plan to try using it as a stencil design in the future.

Difficulty LevelIntermediate. I found this design pretty easy, but it’s important to keep the shape in your head that you’re stitching. It was easy to form really lopsided shapes if I wasn’t thinking about the Ying Yang while I quilted it.

Design Family – Edge to Edge. This design is quilted from one edge to another which makes it a great design for the open, uncomplicated areas of your quilt.

Directional Texture – All directions. Typically edge to edge designs will have a horizontal or vertical texture, but this design is so slanted and wiggly, I really feel like it has more of an all-over texture instead.

Suggestions for Use – I think this would make for a terrific sashing design! Expand it to fill your sashing area for a really interesting, easy to stitch design.

Back of Slanted Paisley

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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. Anonymous says:

    I really enjoyed watching your video. It's marvellous the way you move the cloth under the needle. I've just started sewing and hope at some point to take up fm quilting.

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