Day 190 – Flame Spiral

Today is Anything Goes Thursday and I’m hankering for a new free motion quilting design.

Feather Universe had such a cool texture, I wanted to stitch it again, only this time I used flames instead of feathers to create Flame Spiral:

Difficulty LevelIntermediate. Watch your speed as you create this design. If you need to, mark the starting spiral and that can make it much easier to stitch.

Design Family – Foundational. This design is created by first stitching the foundational spiral, then filled with the flame shapes.

Directional Texture – Center Focused. You really can’t miss the giant bulls-eye of this design!

Suggestions for Use – This design could easily be used to quilt a whole quilt! Start in the center and stitch down your spiral, then fill it with flames for an awesome

Back of Flame Spiral

free motion quilting | Leah Day

Feel free to use this free motion filler designs in your quilts,
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.

3 Responses

  1. SewCalGal says:

    Very interesting to see a design that you tweak to apply it to a circle. Very creative. I'll definitely give this one a try!

    SewCalGal
    http://www.sewcalgal.blogspot.com

  2. Ethne says:

    this looks so much like an uncurling fern – lovely

  3. sonja says:

    this is so a tree fern design in my eye and i love it! you are to be commended for this amazing undertaking of quilting backgrounds at the speed of daily!! i am checking in from time to time for inspiration and it enjoy your creative energy!!!

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