Most Popular Quilting Design on the Project – Spinning Daisy

With over 300,000 views on YouTube, this is possibly our most popular quilting design from the free motion quilting project! I think it might be because Spinning Daisy looks hard to quilt, but it’s actually very easy to quilt.

I love flower designs and daisies are a particular favorite. Make sure to check out the Dresden Daisies quilting tutorial for a fun quilting design to quilt in the sashing space between your quilt blocks.

Spinning Daisies will work best quilted in blocks or in circle appliques. This popular quilting design is really easy to stitch, especially if you mark the center and maybe the first angle or spin for the petals.

Technically we turned the petal shapes into feathers, so we could think of Spinning Daisies as another feathering design too!

Difficulty Level – Intermediate. This isn’t an extremely difficult design, but it can be tricky to line up the ending petals with the beginning petals so the design swirls seamlessly. In a pinch, mark the starting and ending lines so that way the whole design comes together easily.

Design Family – Center Fill. Spinning Daisy is created by starting in the center of your quilting space and quilting out to the edges. You can keep this design in a circular shape if you’re just creating the flower, or you can travel stitch and fill in with more petals until the entire quilting space is filled.

Difficulty Level – Center Focused. This design has a very clear center focused texture which makes it a wonderful eye-catching design. Definitely use it somewhere you want to attract attention!

Suggestions for Use – I think this design would look terrific stitched into the center of a quilt. By building up the petals as feathers, you could easily take this one design and cover an entire quilt with it in the All Over Quilting style!

Are you new to free motion quilting? Here are some of the tools and supplies I use daily and recommend:

Let’s go quilt,

Leah Day