Bright Sunflower Quilting Design #250

I’m celebrating with a bright Sunflower quilting design for day 250! We now have 250 free motion quilting designs to choose from and use on our quilts! I think quilting this fun flower design is the perfect way to celebrate:

Inspiration – I love to play with flower designs, especially finding easier ways to create them without as much precise travel stitching.

One morning I was doodling and created a very simple flower, but all the petals were different sizes and it didn’t look good. In frustration, I just kept adding more and more petals on top until the first set no longer looked bad. That’s a great way to hide mistakes: cover them in a sea of flower petals!

Difficulty Level – Beginner. Sunflower is a super simple design and what’s great is it will help you master creating a smooth petal shape. If you’re struggling to make smooth shapes without wobbly lines, try quilting this design in some small blocks to practice

By the time you get finished, you’ll have gotten a better handle on making these shapes, and created a nice stack of drink coasters as well!

Design Family – Center Fill. This design starts in the center of your quilting space and radiates out. Don’t worry about the flower petals completely filling every corner of your blocks. It actually looks better if you keep the flower shape circular rather than trying to stretch the petals into a square.

Directional Texture – Center Focused. You really can’t miss this eye catching design! If you watched the video, you’ll have seen me go around the center one more time before I finished the design. I like building up my threads to really draw attention to the center of the design.

Suggestions for Use – I have a large quantity of small blue and white quilts left over from writing the book How to Piece Perfect Quilts two years ago. All they need are some simple designs to finish them off to make many nice baby quilts. Sunflower would be a perfect design to use in the blocks and cornerstones!

Let’s go quilt,

Leah Day