Free Motion Quilt Inverted Lilies – Design #514
It’s time to learn how to free motion quilt Inverted Lilies! This cute quilting design is a nice mix of straight line triangles, curves, and tear drops, which makes it a bit floral and a bit formal at the same time. Enjoy seeing how to stitch it on a home machine in this video:
Quick Links from this free motion quilting tutorial:
Click Here to learn more about my home sewing machine – You don’t need a massive machine to learn free motion quilting. You just need a sturdy machine and a willingness to practice!
Deluxe Foot Set – This set includes two styles of walking feet, a darning foot, and a ruler foot! These are the feet I use for machine quilting on my Eversewn machine.
I’m also quilting on a Janome 1600 set up on a Grace Hoop Frame. This makes quilting feel so much easier because the machine is moving on wheels instead of the quilt being pushed over a table.
Learn more about machine quilting Inverted Lilies:
Difficulty Level – Beginner. There are a lot of steps to this quilting design – stitch a triangle, stitch inside and quilt a curve to the point, tear drop shape, then curve back down to the opposite side, then echo (if desired) and stitch your next triangle. This might take a few tries to memorize, but remember this is just like memorizing writing letters in cursive. Once you remember the steps, quilting Inverted Lilies should be no problem!
Design Family – Echoing. Some easier designs to help you practice free motion quilting Inverted Lilies are Trippy Triangles and Electric Pulse. And if you find quilting this just feels like pulling teeth, remember that some designs are trickier to master when you’re first starting out. Try out a few designs from the Free Motion Quilting Project and focus on quilting the one that feels the most natural and easy to you.
Where to Quilt It? – Inverted Lilies is a design that will work anywhere on your quilt, with one caveat – this is probably not the easiest to quilt in super tight, tiny areas. Like around the swirly vines of my strawberry quilt. These areas are tight, hard to keep consistent and would give me a headache to quilt with Inverted Lilies.
Then again, my Mommy Brain is real!
Are you still searching for the perfect design for your next quilt? Check out the latest designs shared to our Quilting Design Library here.
Let’s go quilt,
Leah Day
Watch more free motion quilting tutorials on both a home machine and longarm:
Free Motion Quilting Star Flower Stipple
Machine Quilting Tutorial for Olive Oil
Free Motion Quilting Deranged Feather
