Funky Wormholes Quilting Design # 240

Let’s move on to a new design on the project. Recently I looked back at Fossil Bed and realized that this design had loads of potential variations just waiting to be stitched!

First I played with starting with a closed spiral and quilting off with a tail of stacked half-moon shapes. After looking at the resulting texture, I realized that this looks a lot like the wormholes from Dr. Who:

Free motion quilting Wormholes

As you can see in the photo above when you stack half-moon shapes together they really give off a very interesting texture!

Difficulty LevelIntermediate. This is a really fun design to stitch! First start with a circle and closed spiral. I found it fun to experiment with both closed and open spirals and eventually found that closed spirals (spirals you stitch into and travel stitch back out of) look the best for this design.

Filler Design TypeStacking. Wormholes is really created by stacking shapes together. First stitch the circle and go inside with the spiral. Then stack a line of half-moon shapes to the back. When you get bored stitching half moon shapes, just stitch another circle, and the design will continue to build quickly and easily!

Directional TextureAll Directions. This is going to be a very eye-catching design because of the thread play created by stacking the Wormhole shapes together.

Suggestions for Use – Personally I think this design will be easier to quilt on a smaller scale because it keeps the half-moon shapes short and easy to curve smoothly.

I also think this texture is so amazing, you should give it some room to really show off, so I’m planning to use it over some large expanses of the background of Sinkhole. Wormholes and Sinkholesmatch made in heaven!

Let’s go quilt,

Leah Day

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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.

4 Responses

  1. Cara says:

    Wow! I'm so impressed with your machine quilting skills. I am working on my first quilt but doing it by hand – machine quilting is intimidating.

  2. Hector says:

    Wormholes looks gorgeous on black. You always do such beautiful work

  3. Marilyn W says:

    Leah,
    Hahaha…you were SPOT ON with the name of this one. I clicked on the site and my (almost 4 year old – can't read yet) said…"I don't like it. It has worms in it." Of course that was HER personal preference…I do however like it.

    Now…let me go see the video on how you made it.

    Marilyn

  4. Jenny says:

    Great design, Leah, but I miss Josh's recipe Thursdays. I can't cook with perfectly stitched cotton.

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