Easy Breezy Flowers-A Machine Quilting Tutorial

November 29, 2016
Flowers, Machine Quilting, Tutorial, Lori Kennedy

Flowers, Machine Quilting, Tutorial, Lori Kennedy

Good Morning, Quilters!

I know winter is fast approaching, but this is what popped up in my sketchbook–Flowers!

Sometimes when I am doodling mindlessly a gem emerges…

This flower is simple to stitch and can be scaled much larger or quite small.  Stitch it on red fabric to make a quick Christmas pillow or add it to any quilt to quickly fill the background.

THE EASY BREEZY FLOWER-MACHINE QUILTING TUTORIAL

Begin by stitching a curl.  Echo stitch the curl.

Flowers, Machine Quilting, Tutorial, Lori Kennedy

Stitch a wavy line around the curl.

Flowers, Machine Quilting, Tutorial, Lori Kennedy

Echo stitch the wavy line.

Flowers, Machine Quilting, Tutorial, Lori Kennedy

Stitch another curl with echo stitching.

The trick here is to tuck the wavy line (petals) into the adjacent flower to create a cluster effect.

Flowers, Machine Quilting, Tutorial, Lori Kennedy

Because the flower is so free-form this is easy to do!

Easy….

Flowers, Machine Quilting, Tutorial, Lori Kennedy

Breezy!

Hope YOU will stitch this on YOUR next quilt!

SUNFLOWER TO POINSETTIA QUILT SHOW

Please send YOUR photos from our quilt-a-long by December 5th!  We will have a “People’s Choice Award” with prizes!

Send photos to lckennedy@hotmail.com.  Don’t forget to add “Sunflower Sampler” in the subject line!

Happy Stitching!

Lori

PS…All tutorials, images and information are the property of Lori Kennedy at The Inbox Jaunt and are intended for personal use only.  Feel free to re-blog, pin or share with attribution to The Inbox Jaunt.  For all other purposes, please contact me at lckennedy@hotmail.com.  Thanks!

 

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15 comments

  • Pam Hotle

    Super cute flower and another great tutorial. Can’t wait to use it on something!

  • Marta

    YES, Yes ! I didn’t know this is the flower I have been looking for til I saw it.. It is exactly the right one !!! Thanks again, Gifted Lady.

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      Anything for YOU, Marta!

      • Marta

        They coulda’ named you Sweetie Pie !

  • Love this new flower Lori! Thank you so much for your fabulous tutorials they are really brilliant! Christine x

  • Cathy W.

    Simplicity, love this flower. Thank you

  • Sweet motif and great tutorial. Thank you.

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  • Lovely flowers Lori. Thank you for sharing x

  • I really like the look of this flower

  • Pat Evans

    I have a Christmas table topper/or/wall hanging sitting here waiting to be quilted. I had already decided to use the poinsettia shown in your header in some of the square blocks. I’ve even doodled four of them on paper and they don’t look half bad. I mean you can recognize them as flowers. But I just can’t get myself to the next step of actually quilting them onto fabric. But Christmas is coming so I must stop procrastinating.

  • Donna Nelson

    Those are really cute flowers! I’m going to practice them today.

  • I’m going to try that one right away!

  • I love this breezy flower. You are true it is easy to doodle and certainly easy to stitch too. I will try it very soon. Thank you for sharing your amazing creativity.

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