So Sweet Lollipop Flower Quilting Design

We’re on a roll with flower quilting designs and this is the sweetest Lollipop Flower. This simple combination of straight lines and closed spirals reminds me of mid-century modern furniture. It’s simple, spare, but still looks like a flower from a distance, but I don’t think I’ll ever find this one blooming in my garden!

This Lollipop Flower is inspired by Lollipop Chain, a fun free motion design that combines circles, spirals, and straight lines. One of these days I’m going to have to make a pink candy quilt filled with sweet designs.

I think this quilting design would have looked more like a flower and less like a mid-century modern dining room chandelier if I’d drawn a circle on my quilt square and quilted the circles and spirals to fit within.

The randomness of the lines and spirals is very nice, if that’s what you’re going for. Just understand that it’s perfectly fine to mark guidelines on your quilt if you need them. Even quilting on the marked line – that’s not breaking any rules or cheating! If it helps you create the quilting design you want, and reduce ripping out stitches, it’s perfectly fine.

Lollipop Flower Quilting Design Details

Difficulty Level – Intermediate. This is a very easy design, but there is some travel stitching involved to create the long, straight lines for the lollipop petals. Try rotating your quilting space so you can really see what you’re doing as you quilt these areas.

Design Family – Center Fill. Flower designs are usually created by working from the center of your quilting space to the outside. For this particular design, try keeping the flower under 5″ so the petals don’t get too long or unwieldy.

Directional Texture – Center Focused. It’s hard to ignore this bulls-eye like texture, so definitely place this design where you want a lot of attention on your quilt.

Suggestions for Use – I’m liking the idea of a Candy Land or Sugar Princess quilt. It would be fun to play with pink, brown, and off white – the colors of ice cream I don’t use very often!

The inspiration for this mini series of flower quilting designs is finishing my Flower Bouquet wall hanging quilt. If you’d like to see how I used five free motion flower designs in one quilt, Click Here to check it out!

Let’s go quilt,

Leah Day

Day 81 – Lollipop Chain

Free Motion Quilted Flower Bouquet