37. Learn How to Quilt Lava Rocks, #394

We’re finally getting into the heat of the summer and I’m ready to warm things up with this funky new design! This is Lava Rocks:

free motion quilting | Leah Day

At this point, with nearly 400 designs on the project I often find inspiration coming from the designs themselves. This particular design is a combination of Overlapping Petals and Cobblestones. Mix the two together and you’ve got one wobbly wiggly texture that’s perfect for the background of Express Your Love:

free motion quilting | Leah Day

Let’s learn how to quilt it!

Difficulty LevelIntermediate.

Design Family – Stacking.

As I said in the video, there’s only one place I wouldn’t put this design – over the goddess’s face and body. Why? Because she might end up looking spotty like she’s been attacked by polka dots!

Let’s go quilt,

Leah

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.

4 Responses

  1. You've done it again. I can't wait to try Lava Rocks. I think it will be perfect for the sand background on the latest quilt in my beach series. I will be filling in the inner cobblestone portion with "foam" or various size circles.

  2. Judith Gale says:

    Beautiful. Anxious to try on a new quilt! Thanks

  3. Janet Maddox says:

    I like how the quilting filled in so well around the goddesses face. Thanks for sharing.

  4. Thak you Leah. You always inspire me.

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