How to Free Motion Quilt Lovely Clover, Quilting Design #495

I’m feeling lots of love today, so I decided to play with heart shapes and create a new quilting design. I call this Lovely Clover, and it’s the perfect design to fill in large blocks or the cornerstones of your quilts:

Eversewn Sparrow 20 Sewing Machine

Low Shank Darning Foot

Isacord Polyester Thread

Let’s learn more about this Lovely Clover quilting design:

Design Family – Edge to Center. This design is a bit hard to categorize because we quilt the straight lines across the quilting space first, then quilt the hearts in the middle. It’s going to be one of those designs that needs a lots of open, uncomplicated space on your quilt so you can quilt it easily and quickly. I think this is a great choice for large open quilt blocks.

Difficulty Level – Beginner. Stitching the straight lines to begin this design definitely makes it easier to space out your heart shapes properly and then guides the echoes for the rest of the design. As you can see in the image, my echoes weren’t perfect, so this is a design that can definitely help you build skill for echo quilting on your home machine.

Suggestions for Use – I think Lovely Clover will work best if you mark the straight lines diagonally in a open quilt block. You can stitch the lines, or just use the lines as a guideline for spacing your heart shapes instead. Large blocks, cornerstones, and other square shapes will be a great choice for this design.

You can do a lot with heart shapes and echoes! If you liked this design, also check out Feathered Hearts and Feather Flower.