The Crabapple Blossom-A Free Motion Quilt Tutorial

May 26, 2015
Crabapple Blossom, Free Motion Quilting

CrabappleBlossom.LKennedy002Good Morning, Quilters!

I hope you all enjoyed the long Memorial Day Weekend–the official kick off to summer!  The weather was a mixed bag around here–a little sunshine, a little heat, a lot of rain…all while seated in the bleachers of a high school baseball tournament.  (My favorite activity–even over quilting!)

Now that summer is here, and the garden and outdoor activities have been beckoning, I’m having a hard time keeping up with My LIST-the daily TO DOs-so I may not post as often this month.

In addition, I have several BIG PROJECTS on which I’m working…I’ll fill you in later this week…

For now, the garden comes inside with beautiful Crabapple Blossoms from my tree.

Crabapple Blossom

THE CRABAPPLE BLOSSOM FREE MOTION QUILT TUTORIAL

This tutorial is for an all-over or fill pattern.  With a little doodling, it could easily be stitched in a vine to fill a border.

Crabapple Blossom, Free Motion QuiltingBegin by stitching a stem and curving in to create the center of the flower.Crabapple Blossom, Free Motion QuiltingEcho stitch the stem to begin the first petal.

NOTE- All of the petals in the Crabapple, are slightly angular.Crabapple Blossom, Free Motion QuiltingContinue adding petals, leaving a gap between the petals and the center circle.Crabapple Blossom, Free Motion QuiltingStitch the last petal and echo stitch the stem back into the center of the flower.Crabapple Blossom, Free Motion Quilting

 

Stitch jagged lines into each petal and back to the center.  Use the small gap around the center to travel between each petal.

Crabapple Blossom, Free Motion QuiltingYou may echo-stitch around the entire blossom.Crabapple Blossom, Free Motion QuiltingUse the echo stitching to to travel to the next area on the quilt to be filled–You may echo stitch the entire flower or a partial flower depending on where you need to fill.

While stitching the petals on subsequent Crabapple Blossoms,  alter the shape of the petal to fill in very close to the adjacent flowers.  Don’t worry that some of the petals are oddly shaped–they will appear to be underlapped.

Crabapple Blossom, Free Motion QuiltingThe overall look is very beautiful, even if some of the flowers are cut off or “squashed” in the bouquet.

Crabapple Blossom, Free Motion QuiltingA new favorite!

A BUSY WEEK AHEAD

So much more quilting in the next several days…

ONE of THE BIG PROJECTS revealed…

A gander at a new FREE Paper Pieced Pattern from Peggy…Can YOU guess what it might be?

Doodle Lessons,

More from Quilt Market 2015,

A little gardening…

and I might have to clean my sewing room–I think a Twister went through it!?

May your stitches be happy,

Lori

PS.  This tutorial was stitched on my BERNINA with Sulky 40wt Rayon on top and Aurifil 50wt cotton in the bobbin with a size 90 Topstitch needle on Kona Cotton (Robert Kaufman) with Warm and Natural cotton batting.

PPS…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, share or pin with attribution to The Inbox Jaunt.  For all other purposes, please contact me at lckennedy@hotmail.com.  Thanks!

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