THANK YOU, HILARY AND PEGGY!
Good Morning, Quilters! I hope you all had a lovely Easter filled with family, friends, fun and of course, JELLY BEANS!
Last week was busy at The Inbox Jaunt! Two generous quilters made guest appearances:
On Wednesday we stitched patterns and variations with Hilary Florence HERE and
On Sunday, Peggy Riemer shared a paper piecing pattern HERE!
Thank you for sharing, ladies–We certainly enjoyed your company and your expertise! Come again any time….
AMERICAN QUILTER ON NEWSSTANDS NOW
As I reported HERE, my debut article for American Quilter (My Line with Lori Kennedy) is on newsstands now! I was thrilled to see it for sale at my nearby JoAnns store….so thrilled, in fact, that I bought a few extra copies–to share with YOU!
THREE LUCKY WINNERS
In order to enter this Giveaway I’m going to solicit YOUR advice…Please review all the free motion quilt tutorials HERE and pick your favorites. I will use YOUR favorites for an upcoming column in American Quilter magazine.
As I have found on Open Line Fridays, YOU are my best advisors…so tell me your favorites and earn a chance to WIN American Quilter Magazine.
You’re THE BEST,
Lori
PS…All images, tutorials, and information found here is the property of Lori Kennedy at The Inbox Jaunt and is intended for personal use only. Feel free to re-blog, tweet, pin with attribution to The Inbox Jaunt. For all other purposes, please contact me at lckennedy@hotmail.com. Thanks a million!
184 comments
Barb E., highlands Ranch, CO
As a newbie to FMQ, I was struggling to find a pattern for a very busy border for a baby quilt for a friend, that wasn’t busy but was something that I could do fairly well. “Nikki’s Puzzle” was perfect!! It fit the bill! Thank you for your detailed tutorials. They really “make sense” to me. Did I say “thank you”? :-))
Rose Landon
It was very hard to pick favorites. I would say Pinecone, Easiest Flower and Irish Chain are among my top ones because they can be used in many ways. Thanks for sharing your designs and I have learned a lot from you.
Mary Posuniak
Spiral Leaf is my Favorite, Basic leaf also one of my favorites, How do you chose! so happy to have found your post, now I can find you in American Quilter too! Best Wishes for you continued Success! It is well deserved, you are helping many to aspire to more beautiful works. Thank you so much.
Denise Cabral
I think my favorite is Flower Power and The Square Flower.
Judy Tucker
I LOVE every one of them! I have a suggestion….a book with ALL your designs to date with their instructions! I would be the first in line to purchase one!! How about it quilters, agree? Keep up the great work!
Cheri Barker
Love your basic leaf and the square squiggles. I’d also love to see something for a boys quilt besides a sailboat….having lots of boy babies in my area, and I’m at a loss
Susan B
Actually, I like any of the border designs. If I have to pick a favorite, I think it would be the Fleur de Lis.
Paula
Open Umbrella…Because it’s a wish for the rain we desperately need here in California.
Laura M
Definitely Flower Power, just used a variation of it on a quilt for a PNW Modern Quilt Guild challenge and love how it turned out, I have had so many compliments on the quilting design! Also love the Basic Leaf and Spider Web. Congratulations again on the column, looking forward to seeing the magazine as it is not one I have seen in my local stores way up here in Canada!
Debby
So hard to pick favorites, but I chose ones I thought I could accomplish as a newby. the snowflake, the wind and daisy chain. Now I just need to find the time to try these.
Holly Ann W.
Oooo can’t pick just one. We are ranchers and the Oak Leaf/Acorn and Rope edging are prominent elements of leather tooling for our saddles and tack. So Oak Leaf is #3 as it will look great on any cowboy-themed articles. (To go along with the western farm/ranch theme in our area, would be Woven Wheat.) I just discovered your blog in March in a search for Shamrocks and you make them so easy – so that is favorite #2. But with a name like mine (bah-dum) I gotta go with Holly Leaf for my #1 pick. ;). You’ll have to wait for the Fall issue for that one to publish, though.
I’m just starting to fool with piecework/quilting and upon seeing all your fabulous variations, I’m thinking “who needs piecework all the time?” when these FMQ designs make an ordinary piece of cloth extraordinary!!!
Sharon McKay
I really like the square squiggle, I am going to do use it on a quilt sewn with charm squares.
Wanda
It’s not easy to pick just one but I seem to always go back to the Sweetheart border. I love to quilt it on the diagonal and use it to fill in like a heart stipple pattern. Thanks again for sharing your creativity!
69 tan bug
Swirls and Twirls because it is elegant looking.
Amy M
I love it when you do the holiday themed tutorials and think that would make a great article. Either as a sample for each holiday or selecting an upcoming holiday and presenting a new or favorite one.
Linda Douglas
HELLO, “Spiral Leaf” is my favorite. This leaf pattern allowed me to finish a quilt in a fancier way than I had planned. I’m just a beginner at FMQing and your tutoral is so helpful! Thank You for inspiring more beautiful stitching. This pattern is a keeper!!!
Rebecca Grace
I have so many favorites, but many of your most unique designs are pretty season specific (like the candy cane one and the Irish clover). So I choose the SQUIGGLE SQUARE tutorial as my favorite. It looked amazing when I tried it on a project, even though I’m still a beginner, so much easier than it looks. Thank you!
corina coombe
Pinecone is my favorite! I’m doing a birch tree quilt right now and it will be perfect in the border. Really appreciate all the time you’ve taken to make such easy to follow tutorials!!!
Anna Jarczewski
So many to choose from… My top 3 are: windowsill garden, flower variations and snowflake. Easy to achieve with a little practice but really makes your quilts look fantastic. Thanks for asking.
bobbiesews
Is it just me or does everyone want to read everyone else’s choices? Being new to FMQ and your blog I first picked Daisy Chain. First tut I read, then went looking at the list and loved Daisy Chain and The Wind. Not only am I learning and practicing,(you make it so easy for us to be confident!) I’m also loving the quiet art days.
lavonne hansen
tough. I like the downward curls because you can use it as an overall or a border. Yes I agree on the book.
Cornelia
Really in love with all your FMQ patterns, most i love Swirls And Twirls
lavonne
Lavonne again – the tutorial for downward curls doesn’t have the filler – it needs it.
mollydooker2
Circles for an all over pattern on negative space.
carla bynum
Hi!!!! Wow!!!! I do love so many of them…the sailboat…the spiderweb,the egg and bunnies!!!! But my top 3 would be the picket fence…the twirling stars and the sweetheart border!!!!
Carol H
I like the little boats. I was working on a Storm at Sea challenge for my quilt retreat – and although I didn’t do it as I am such a beginner at quilting – normally I quilt by check – but I did have the confidence through seeing your tutorials that I quilted it by myself – of course it is small – 17 1/2 x 17 1/2 inches – but I did in! In large part due to your step by step instructions. Love them!!
Debra
I recently used squiggle squares in a quilt, but I modified it to be triangles. It turned out really cute! I like it because it is easy (I’m a very new quilter), quick (I have a short attention span) and can be used for many things. I also enjoy the Orange Peels because I love cathedral window quilts and this pattern reminds me of cathedral windows.
Teri
They are all GREAT! But here are my favorites: Daisy Chain, flower power, square flower, Irish chain
CJ
My favorites are the square flower and variations.
farmquilter
Love Irish Chain, Grid Play, Daisy Chain, Heart Border, Swirls and Twirls, Snowflakes, Pinecone, Candy Stripes, Holly Leaf, Basic Leaf, Pumpkin, Spider Web, Oak Leaf, Swirling Stars, Wind, Fleur-de-lis, Circles, Open Leaf with Spirals, and Twisted Variation. I wish that on the line ones you would show us how you continue the design around the corner!! Love you designs and when I’m stuck for a design, I come and look at yours for inspiration!!
Becky
My favorites are the basic leaf and the oak leaf. I used them on a wallhanging quilt of oak leaves and then modified it for the companion wallhanging of maple leaves. I always get great ideas scrolling through your free-motion tutorials. Thanks!
Tammie Wallace
It’s so hard to choose, but I really love the square flower and all of its variations! I’m so glad I found your blog.
Judy
I have many that I’ve tried. Its hard to choose. I work at a sewing machine store that has a HV Platinum 16. I’ve tried several of your designs on quilt samples for the store. They always get noticed. I love square flowers, holly leaf, basic leaf, the perfect pumpkin, braided wheat, and easiest flower and variations. Thank you! Congratulations on your article!
Kaye M.
I found the Basic Leaf design from last Halloween to be very helpful. It looks complicated but when you draw the rails to use as reference points and show us step by step it really makes sense! Thanks for your great tutorials.
Lisa Clark
Flower Power is my favorite then twirling stars. My favorite holiday one was the pumpkin.
Bonnie
My favorite are flower power, daisy chain, and Irish chain.
shirley
Braided wheat but I LOVE THEM ALL
Piggly Wiggly Quilts
Ms. Kennedy….you are too good to just pick ‘one’ of your tutorials! I have learned so much from you. I work on a 20 yr old Gammill that a friend has, not even my own. It has been wonderful to take my Ipad and practice your tutorials. I really like the borders, The Wind and Fabulous Flower Border and the Irish Chain. Yet, what I appreciate most are your teaching of registration lines to follow for our work. Just reading how you do things inspires me! Thank you so much!
labugaiski
It’s so hard to pick a favorite design. But I think my favorite is flower power. I have used it on two quilts and love it!
Terri
I’m brand new to your blog and it was hard to choose. I found nine that I liked, but in order to help with your magazine article here are the top three: extra-sweet heart border, straight line variations, woven cross hatch. Oh, and thanks for the spider web. I made a spider web quilt and was looking for something to quilt in the blank space. I was so excited about your design and, if I can master it, I’m using it on my quilt.
billiemick
The perfect pumpkin and the wind.
Mary hill
I agree with Judy Tucker! How about a book of all your designs
Nadine Vining
Hard to choose a favorite. I used swirling stars on a Christmas quilt. But I love swirls and twirls too. Thanks for all you do.
Jacqueline
I really like flower power and squiggly square and the daisy chain… I appreciate all of them just have to summon up the courage to jump in and try them all.
quiddityrox
flower power is very forgiving for this newbie!! Roxanna
Joy F
It’s difficult to pick the best, so I’ll tell you which ones I’ve used. The Square Flower and it’s variations, the wind and braided wheat. I love the leaves as well, but the shape eludes me. Back to paper and pencil. Thank you Lori.
Karen Sears
I like the leaf and the square flower design because they can be utilized in many different ways. Love this site and so happy that others will see in on the printed page
Priscilla Golz
I do love all of your beautiful designs! I hope to someday do Square Flower, Easter Egg, and The Perfect Pumpkin.
Carol
I think my favorite right now is the double loop vine. I just used it in the sashings around some blocks in a quilt I just finished quilting. (Yea for me!) But I’ve also used the flower one in the corners and I’ve used the sailboat in a baby quilt. Next week I’ll have a new favorite! Thanks for all you do.
Karen K.
There are so many choices! I love both of the borders with hearts, the Basic Spiral, the Twist and the Twisted Rope. I know you asked for one but it’s too hard to choose! Thanks so much for them and congratulations on the column!
Sarah
I really like the Fleur de Lies, but there are so many beautiful ones.
WisconsinQuilting
I like the Snowflake tutorial because it uses short straight lines and its construction is clever.
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