Day 285 – Storm of Palms

It’s always fun to play with different designs and see what can happen when you change things up a bit. Today I’m fiddling with Paisley and seeing what happens when you start this design with a simple palm tree shape, then pivot and echo it many times:

free motion quilting design storm of palm

Suggestions for Use – Even though you could probably squish this design into some pretty tight or complex areas, I think Storm of Palms is going to look better in the open, uncomplicated areas of your quilt. Try it around simple appliqued shapes, over open blocks, or in the borders of your next quilt.

Let’s go quilt,

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.

3 Responses

  1. Anonymous says:

    Question: Why did you switch from seven fonds to 5 fonds? What did you not like about them?

  2. Leah Day says:

    Mimi – I doubt I was thinking about it that much actually! Less fronds flow a bit easier which is probably why I dropped 2.

    Often I'll try stitching one area a few different ways before finding the way that works best. Once it gets on a real quilt, no one is going to count the fronds!

    Cheers,

    Leah

  3. Kay Lynne says:

    You have a very nice design Leah!

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