The Wagon Wheel-A Free Motion Quilt Tutorial
Good Morning, Quilters!
It’s Tuesday and time for another Free Motion Quilt and Long Arm Quilt tutorial. All of the designs found HERE work equally well on a domestic sewing machine, like my BERNINA 770QE, and on any long arm or mid arm quilt machine!
Today’s motif, The Wagon Wheel, can be used to fill any shape or it can be used as a background fill. It is a Modern motif, but I can easily imagine it on a Traditional Quilt as well.
THE WAGON WHEEL FREE MOTION QUILT TUTORIAL
Begin by drawing any size square–or any shape. In the tutorial below, the square is 3-1/2 by 3-1/2 inch. Use whatever size fits YOUR quilt!
Begin in one corner and stitch a spiral.
In the center, double back on the spiral line and fill the space with a wavy line.
Continue all the way around the spiral.
After filling in the center of the spiral, use the wavy line to reach the outer borders of your square or shape.
Continue all the way around…
Fill the entire square and then knot off or stitch another Spiral and begin filling the new spiral.
Careful, this one is addictive!
Just like always…Doodle First!
Hope YOUR Day is a smooth ride!
Lori
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Love this site! You make machine quilting fun! Thank you
Gail
I love this wagon wheel motif! Can’t wait to doodle it!
If you eliminate the outside squiggles, it looks like a cutaway of a nautilus.
Great idea!
Just got a Sweet 16 – can’t wait to play with this one! Thanks Lori
When I go to your site and see what you have to show us for the day, well the next stop is my sewing room!!! I keep telling myself,if she can,I know I can!!!
Music to my ears!!
Beautiful design…the inner part reminded me of a nautilus too!
Thanks for the inspiration!
I will work this wagon wheel into a Zentangle today. Thank you!!
Love it!!!!!
Very interesting design. Great tutorial. Thank you.
QuiltShopGal
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Just love it!!!
Brilliant way to combine 2 easy quilting motifs to create a stunner!!! Thanks, Lori!!!
I love it! and it looks easy…
One question: how do you join this quilted square to the next one? I mean, as it ends at the same place it starts, how do you travel on to the next square? I prefer not to knot, cut the thread and then start again, but rather travel on to the next space to quilt.
I would stitch a row of the wiggly lines over to the next square. See what you can come up with by doodling.
Love this design and looks complicated but when it’s broken down in steps it looks like a manageable feat.
WOW. That is a cool design! !
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