How to Quilt a Teapot Motif
Good Morning, Quilters and Tea-Lovers!
Last week we quilted a stack of teacups.
This week, let’s add a teapot!
Begin by stitching a large circle with a slightly squared off top. ( Or, be creative and begin with any shape!)
Start stitching on the center bottom and stitch 1-1/2 revolutions, ending on the center top.
Stitching from the center to the left, add a semi-circle. Stitch the semi-circle 1-1/2 times, ending on the top.
Add a small circle, again stitching the circle 1-1/2 revolutions.
Echo stitch the right side of the lid and pot, then add a curved handle on the right side.
Echo stitch the inside of the handle and the right side of the teapot–all the way to the bottom.
Add a half circle base and embellish the inside of the base (optional).
Echo stitch the left side of the circle and curve out to the left to create the spout.
Add an oval–1-1/2 revolutions.
Stitch a short line to attach the oval to the side of the teapot and echo stitch back again.
Add a few curly lines to complete the Teapot Motif!
In just four minutes, a perfectly brewed pot of tea!!
I think a doodle quilt is brewing…
Teacups and Teapots…
All we need is a few scones!
― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
Won’t you join me in a spot of tea?
Lori
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So cute! Thanks, Lori!
LOL! Brilliant! Something coming up in the future for my mum – she’d love that one.
LOVE LOVE LOVE it!!!!! Now to quilt it!
So cute! Are you watching the Olympics? Half revolutions and full revolutions, the Olympics are full of them from snow boarding to ice skating. LOL
Just love the tea pot and cups! Thanks, Lori! 🙂
What an adorable combination. Thanks for sharing all you do. You are amazing.
Lovely, just lovely. My sister Mary Catherine would have loved this design on a placemat. She was a true Tea Jenny. When another sister, Eileen, and I cleared out Mary’s house, we lost count of the teapots around the 75 mark. I brought home the largest (a 12 cupper with a picnic motif) and the smallest (a tiny one cupper with a bunny sprawled in a carrot patch on the lid) to remember her … and her obsession. Any time I think I might have too much stuff, I just think back to Mary’s teapots. I get a momentary pass.
What a lovely memory! I’m sure the collection was fabulous!
How awesome. I don’t that many (about 60+), but I hope that when I am gone, some will be treasured as you are doing! How wonderful!
Love the teapot and the cups ready to fill and ‘specially, Maureen, I love your story about sister and her hoard. Glad you kept two of the many.
Me too ????
Super cute!
I am planning to make my niece an expandable tote by Elaine Linn. One section of bag will be fabric with sandals. Would you have any ideas how to free motion sandals, starfish,a seahorse or other beachy things?
Love your work!!
Thanks so much!
Good morning, OMG, I just quilted teacups and a teapot last night on the quilt I am working on on my longarm. SOOOOOOOO coincidental!!! Love your version! THANK YOU! Now, let me go and finish my cuppa!
Oh Lori, your teapot and cups are too cute. I am heading to the sewing machine to practice this. Thank-you.
Simply Charming!!!
I just found this blog last week. You are so creative and explain it so well for those of us who are not. THNAK YOU !!!
Lori you are amazing!! How can you continue to come up with these darling motifs!!!! That tea pot is the topper! So cute
I love this! So sweet!!! You inspire me!!!!
Lori – you are amazing! Super cute teapot and teacups! Do you do these on a regular sewing machine or longarm?
You get so much personality in your designs. This is just so cute! Thanks, Lori.
Love it, thank you Lori
I think you need to add in some tea bags too! (I have my own tea cupboard!)