32. Quilt Lines in a Spinning Square

On Monday we learned how to piece a Spinning Square block, now it’s time to quilt it with simple straight lines:

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The nice thing about this block is you can flow easily around each spinning square with minimal travel stitching. Watch the video to see exactly the path I chose to knock out this block quickly:

Wishing you could join in the fun of this quilt along? Jump into this project and get everything you need – both piecing AND free motion quilting designs in the Building Blocks Quilt Pattern.
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The only bad thing about paper piecing is those pesky seam allowances! Hopefully my tips in the videos on holding the block more securely and slowing down will help you stitch through these areas easily. 

Just remember, a few big stitches or a few small stitches will not ruin  your block. I made some mistakes in my block, but I didn’t rip them out. This is supposed to be a learning quilt after all, and learning something new…we’ll it ain’t always pretty!

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.

2 Responses

  1. lefuntz says:

    I love this block. I don't want to do the whole quilt. Is there a way to just get the pattern for this one block?

  2. Leah Day says:

    Sorry, but no. Like most sampler projects, this pattern can't be split into separate blocks.

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