How to Free Motion Quilt Sun Burst, Design #516
I have a perfect border or sashing design for you to free motion quilt this week – Sun Burst! This design is a complex series of steps, but once you memorize the sun side, the rest is easy as you’ll see 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 free motion quilting Sun Burst:
Difficulty Level – Beginner. This quilting design does have a lot of steps, but the quilting itself is simple – start with the half circles on one side of your quilting space, then travel inside to echo and fill with Cat Hairball Filler. If you wanted your circles to look more consistent than mine in the photo above, consider using a ruler like the 2-inch Circle Ruler. This will quilt the initial, outer circle shape, then you can free hand quilt (no rulers or marks) to form the inner echo.
Design Family – Edge to Center. This design is formed by stitching the suns on one side of your quilting space, then the wiggly flames along the opposite side. This makes free motion quilting designs in this family easiest in long, narrow spaces like sashing and borders.
Where to Quilt It? – I think this would look awesome as a quilt border design or through wide sashing in the middle of a summer table runner. You could even mix up your colors of thread to make one side yellow and the opposite side orange or red. Just remember changing thread colors will add more time to your project, but sometimes a little extra time is worth it for the boost of bright colors.
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
