Let’s Quilt Flowers! Sea Oat Flower Quilt Pattern
Let’s quilt a Sea Oat Flower quilt pattern today! Since finishing my Flower Bouquet wall hanging quilt, I’m overflowing with flower patterns and inspiration! Today let’s begin a mini series of flower quilting designs. These will look amazing quilted in blocks or you could use one flower to stitch an entire quilt (or a large chunk of it) with pretty flowing texture.
Our first flower design in this mini series – Sea Oat Flower! Very easy to stitch and just look at that pretty delicate effect:
For this flower pattern, I didn’t try to make it fit into the quilt square. Flower designs usually need to be a circle, otherwise the effect doesn’t quite work. For a flower like this, it would have ruined it to try to fill in the whole block.
It’s best to keep this one simple and limit the sets of petals to 2 or 3 rows tops. It’s going to make the flower smaller, but much easier to stitch and better looking for it.
Sea Oat Flower Quilting Pattern Details
Difficulty Level – Intermediate. This is really easy! Start with your circle and radiate out with a set of Sea Oat petals working in one direction. The second set of petals fits in between the first, and swirl in the opposite direction to fill the circular space evenly.
Design Family – Center Fill. These designs start in the center, then work out to fill you quilting space. For this particular design, keeping the flower small (2 sets of petals) is going to work best because of the way the petals interlock together.
Directional Texture – Center Focused. You can’t help but see and focus on the pretty flower texture that this design has!
Suggestions for Use – I don’t know why, but I keep wanting to see this design on my purse or as the decorative touch to a skirt or pair of jeans. It’s light and simple, which makes for a terrific touch of color and texture anywhere you want to put it.
Make sure to check out my Flower Bouquet Quilt so you can see more inspiration for using flower designs in art quilts and wall hangings too!
Let’s go quilt,
Leah Day
This design is lovely! I am 'collecting' possible quilting designs for a sampler I am trying to finish, and this would be perfect for some of the blocks with circular or concentric motifs! Thanks again for all the inspiration – it really is amazing to see how your designs develop one from another! Keep up the great work.
Love this one! I think it would be gorgeous in a quilt with big open squares alternating with a pieced block, especially with a pretty floral print.
Thank you for all your great designs!
very fresh and happy looking!
Oh my goodness Leah! This is definitely one of my favorites so far! Just gorgeous! I love it and can't wait to try it on something.=)
Que diseño tan maravilloso.
Yo me he comprado una Bernina y estoy empezando a practicar siguiendo tus vídeos.
Muchas gracias
This is just beautiful and by far my favorite. I agree with "quiltin' Jenny" about the style of quilt this would work well in, and as luck has it I'm piecing one now! Can't wait to finish the piecing so I can try out this design!!
This design has me excited! My quilting is done to finish a quilt and I don't concern myself with filling space and other things that you take into consideration when you quilt. I see this design in all those seting squares that repro quilters use ….. a very unique design …..
Leah
I really love this design. Just itching to make something to try it on. Tanks.