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
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!
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.
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!
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!!
CJ
My favorites are the square flower and variations.
Teri
They are all GREAT! But here are my favorites: Daisy Chain, flower power, square flower, Irish chain
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.
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!!
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!!!!
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.
Cornelia
Really in love with all your FMQ patterns, most i love Swirls And Twirls
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.
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.
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.
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!!!
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!!!
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.
69 tan bug
Swirls and Twirls because it is elegant looking.
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!
Sharon McKay
I really like the square squiggle, I am going to do use it on a quilt sewn with charm squares.
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!!!
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.
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!
Paula
Open Umbrella…Because it’s a wish for the rain we desperately need here in California.
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.
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
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!
Denise Cabral
I think my favorite is Flower Power and The Square Flower.
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.
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.
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”? :-))
Barb E
My favorite is the Swirling Stars, I have put them on a quilt and they are divine.
Diana J.
I am a beginning free motion quilter so of course I am currently in love with the designs that are the easiest for me to be successful with: The pretty bow; the windowsill garden; the daisy chain and flower power. Thanks for being the inspiration to set aside a bit of time every day to practice this new skill!
Jane Prestidge
I love the flower variations of the square flower………I love all you ideas but since you are making me pick one……this is it!! Used it on a special gift for my Mom’s Easter table mat
Marla R.
Nikki’s Puzzle is my favorite. I have 2 nephews who are autistic and the puzzle piece is a symbol of autism.
ll13077
Hi Lori,
This isn’t as difficult as choosing your favorite child 😉 but there are so many different fmq tutorials that I really love!
With spring finally making an appearance on a regular basis, I gravitate toward flowers (windowsill garden, square flower and variations) and (sweet) sunshine. But I think you can get quite a bit of free motion quilting “mileage” out of thread spools with variations, and with the sample quilt you made with the lettering.
Congrats on your column!
Carole
Hello! Your tutorials are so well done. Thank you for all the work you put into them (and for sharing them!). My two favourites are Sweet Sunshine (just ’cause it’s fun!) and Flower Power (so useful). Congrats on your article!
Debbie Sheldon
Hi Lori
Flower Power, Square Power and the Pinecone are my favorites. All your tutorials are excellent because they take you through step by step. Good luck with your article.
LumaLu
I like the Picket Fence Tutorial the best! So creative and fun!
Vickie Morgan
So many really good ones but I think my favorite is windowsill garden.
Cindy
My fav is the open leaf with swirls. Thanks for all the great tuts and for the giveaway.
hilary florence
So many to choose from Lori! judging by the comments above they all have their followers. My favorites are: the Square flower variation, the Oak leaf, the Picket fence and the Shamrock. All best wishes with the articles!
Hilary Florence
Lori in NC
My favorite is Flower Power – I always have trouble coming up with “fill designs”, and that one is so cute!
Martine
Really do whe have to pick a favorite? Than it would be ” The twist”
Kathy S.
Thanks for the chance to win. My favorite tutorial is The Basic Leaf. Thanks also for all you teach us!
Bunny St. Clair
I love the Flower Power as it is so versatile and the Wind………. and many more but those are two of my favorites
rosemarazzle
Rosemary b here:
Oh my goodness. I would LOVE to win this magazine!
Then I would be an official member of the club 🙂
Well, I adore all of your free motion motifs, many are so lovely on their own on a little corner or kona cotton fabric of any color. I love the ones that wander too
Those would be the Nikii’s puzzle, the tulip and figure 8 I have tried and that was fun, and especially the fabulous flower. Oh there are too many to pick just three. I love all of them, Lori. I think the flowerpot one you did recently is button cute.
Lori, your blog is one of my very favorites!
Patty
Swirling Stars is a winner for me! I love it!
Lorena G
Thank you for the wonderful tutorials Lori. I’m new to free motion and I’m excited to try some of your designs. I’m starting with the simpler ones but I hope to move up to “Flower Power” because it is my absolute favorite. Thanks again
Terry
Two of my favorites are The Daisy Chain and The Easiest Flower Ever. Thanks for all your great tutorials 🙂
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