Dancing Butterfly Design #7 – Sharp Stippling

A few weeks ago we learned how to free motion quilt Zippling, a cool variation of the super popular Stippling design, but with straight lines and sharp angles. Today let’s learn another similar Independent Design, this time with curves and sharp points to create Sharp Stippling:

This is one of my all time favorite designs because it creates such a beautiful texture for your quilts. It’s also super easy to machine quilt into any quilting space. I used it for the background of my butterfly block, but you could just as easily quilt this design in the blocks or sashing, whatever looks best to you!

Click Here to find the full length video in the Dancing Butterfly Quilt Pattern!

So what do you think of Sharp Stippling? If you like traditional Stippling you might want to give this fun, wiggly design a try.

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.

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