Starry Night-A Free Motion Quilt Tutorial

July 1, 2014
Starry Night-A Free Motion Quilt Tutorial

Starry Night-A Free Motion Quilt TutorialGood Morning, Quilters!  So glad you’re here!

Thank YOU for spreading the word…we’re growing our community of FEARLESS free motion quilters every day!

Our motto:  STIPPLE NO MORE!…too many other fun patterns–find more than seventy five free motion quilting patterns right here at The Inbox Jaunt.–(and most of them are easier than stippling!)

Get out your sketchbooks and doodle pads…We are working on a new motif this week–The Starry Night free motion quilt pattern.

This pattern will require a little more doodle practice because we are going “off the rails”.   This is a “Fill Pattern” – a pattern to stitch all over a quilt or in a background.  It does not follow a line.  With a little paper and pen practice you’ll soon be stitching Stars and Moons in Free motion on your next quilt!

THE STARRY NIGHT FREE MOTION QUILT TUTORIAL

In most of the Tuesday free motion quilt tutorials, we begin with “rails” –drawn lines that keep the quilted motifs in an even row.  Whenever you are stitching a fill pattern-there are no rails.  Start stitching  either in the middle of the project or in a corner.

Begin by stitching an upward curve and echo stitching around the curve–this is a “Moon”

Starry Night-A Free Motion Quilt Tutorial

Next, stitch three triangles around the “Moon”…to create a partial “Star”.

Starry Night-A Free Motion Quilt Tutorial

Starry Night-A Free Motion Quilt Tutorial

The sequence looks like this:

Starry Night-A Free Motion Quilt Tutorial

Next, stitch a “C” shaped “Moon”–

NOTE-“Moons” can face either direction—

Starry Night-A Free Motion Quilt Tutorial

 

Then stitch three more triangles around the second “moon”…

Starry Night-A Free Motion Quilt Tutorial

Stitch another “moon”–This moon can go down as in the photo below…or it could go UP…

Starry Night-A Free Motion Quilt TutorialThree more triangles…

Starry Night-A Free Motion Quilt Tutorial

Continue on this way to fill the background…

This does take some practice.

  • Doodle first.  If you can’t do it on paper, you won’t be able to stitch the motif.
  • If you get stuck in a corner, knot off and start again.
  • A “Moon” can be stitched with three lines of stitching before adding the triangles.
  • The “Stars” can be stitched with two, three, four, or five triangles…
  • If you get stuck in a corner, echo back around any motif into an open area.
  • Relax and have fun!
  • Once you get on a roll, you won’t want to stop…so do the laundry first!

Free Motion Quilted stars

 

NOTE-This tutorial was stitched on my Bernina 820 without a stitch regulator on Robert Kaufman Kona cotton, with Warm and Natural batting.  Thread:  Aurifil 50 wt in the bobbin and Sulky Rayon on top–size 90 Topstitch needle.

Signed,

Stitching in the Moonlight until Midnight,

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 share, tweet, pin, re-blog with attribution to The Inbox Jaunt.  For all other purposes, please contact me at lckennedy@hotmail.com.  Thanks!

 

 

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