Quilting Design #37 – In Stitches

I have a fun quilting design for you today, inspired by my local Foothills Quilters Guild Quilt Show. I mention the show because our theme this year is “In Stitches” and I realized I could easily create a filler design that was not only cool, it also allowed me to shamelessly plug the show!

Learn more about this In Stitches Quilting Design:

Inspiration – I’ve known about the theme for our show for awhile, but it didn’t click until the other day. We all use stitches to make our quilts but what about Frankenstein-like stitches? I realized immediately that this would make for a terrific filler design!

Difficulty Level – Intermediate. Yes, this fill requires a lot of traveling over your previous stitching, but it’s pretty forgiving.

Design Family – Independent. Dr. Victor wasn’t a very good quilter when he put Frankenstein together so you’re not really going for perfection here.

Directional Texture – All directions. There’s really no rhyme or reason so just make sure you quilt In Stitches consistently.  Avoid leaving big gaps open as that may be more noticeable than the design overlapping a bit.

Suggestions for Use – Of course this stitch is going to come in very handy whenever you want to seam together the pieces of dead people to reanimate a new living monster. Duh! If that doesn’t float your boat, you could also use this as a terrific background fill, especially for your Halloween quilts.

This In Stitches quilting design will work even in tight areas of your quilt so feel free to put it around floral applique for a funky contradiction in texture verses shape.

Let’s go quilt,

Leah Day