Dancing Butterfly Design #13 – Flame Key

Whew! The last few designs like Spiral Matrix and Amazing Daisies have been pretty complex. Let’s change gears and try a super easy design today called Flame Key:

This design works from Edge-to-Edge on your quilt and adds a beautiful, flowing flame-like texture to the surface. Let’s learn how to quilt it in this video from the Dancing Butterfly Quilt Pattern:

So this free motion quilting design is pretty easy! Once you get your flames lined up against one side all you need to do is travel and echo to fill in the space. The more wiggly and freeform your flames are, the better!

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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