Masculine Quilting Design Bow Tie Parade #220

Here’s a very simple, masculine quilting design I’m calling Bow Tie Parade! Focus on quilting bow tie shapes (yes, bow ties are cool) and you’ll quickly cover your quilt with angular shapes that nicely accent your patchwork.

The main tricky part of quilting this design is the fact that the Bow Tie shape is an angular figure-8. This means you return to the point you started and that can make moving on with the design – branching out to form a new shape a little tricky. See what I mean in this quilting video:

Inspiration – This design was inspired by a traditional Bow Tie Quilt Block. Yes, bow ties are cool! Please tell me you get that reference? It’s from Dr. Who when Matt Smith played the doctor.

Difficulty Level – Intermediate. We quilt this design by forming the letter “8” only with straight lines and sharp angles. The hardest part is moving around the quilting space from one sharp 8 shape to another.

Design Family – Stacking. The shapes all stack together to fill your quilt. If you’re quilting with all over style quilting, aim to make each bow tie shape 3-4 inches long and each one will cover lots of space and secure your quilt very quickly.

Directional Texture – No Direction. Sharp angles like this tend to flatten out your quilt and don’t add any extra directional texture.

Suggestions for Use – I think this masculine quilting design will work great on baby quilts or bed quilts. If you quilt the bow ties on a large scale with all over quilting, it will cover your quilt fast. The only clunky part is getting from one bow tie to another.

And you’re welcome to change that connection style! Connect the design with another design like Stippling or Zippling or Loopy Line to make this much easier to quilt.

Let’s go quilt,

Leah Day

Quilt Along #18 – Go Loopy with Loopy Line!

Day 367 – Zippling