Free Bird Quilting Designs

Free Bird Quilting Designs

Blossoming Lonestar

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Blossoming Lonestar.

Seriously wish I could find the time to finish this one.

I am going to extend the blocks with Alison glass abacus fabric………hopefully soon! lol!

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Finally I have decided on a back ground for my lonestar.

Originally I was going to piece the background with a mix of Alison Glass abacus fabric but I have not got the time at the moment and I really want it finished and off my design wall, so I have decided to go with the fabric pictured, what do you think?

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I love it, now I just have to order it and wait impatiently for it to get delivered!!

Well it got delivered and I decided it wasn’t right after all!

So back to the drawing board or fabric cupboard in this case.

The perfect coloured fabric was there all the time, what do you think?

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Midnight blue, which is pretty appropriate for a star!

Cant wait to quilt this beauty.

I have made a quick sketch of my quilting ideas and if all goes according to plan I will start quilting it this week!

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I have called this quilting design blossom quilting, what do you think?

In the next few pics I will give you a quick tutorial on how this quilting is done. The idea behind this and probably all of my designs is minimal marking and just try to quilt freely and not get to stressed about it being perfect.

The most important thing to remember is that flowers are not all the same and either are leaves so don’t worry if they do not come out exactly the same.

The other thing is this is not micro quilting, so make your flowers, leaves curles and pebbles big, you should be able to quilt large areas quickly.

I start off drawing a 2 inch circle onto the quilt where I want the first flower.

Then I mark out the eight stamens, this is the only marking I will do on the quilt and I mark with white chalk as it just brushes off the quilt.

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Keeping within the circle I quilt pebbles, all different sizes and then following around the edge of them I make the stamens. I tend to listen to the machine as my guide to get the correct length of each one.

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Now I Just quilt around each stamen twice.

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and then quilt double petals around the edge.

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I position the flowers first and then fill in the outside area with leaves, curlies, and pebbles.

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What do you think?

I love it, beautiful big bold flowers!

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In each section I quilt the flowers somewhere different so the overall design is more interesting.


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I decided to do single curves in the rectangles.

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The Alison Glass fabric looks spectacular against the midnight blue.


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And the centre!

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If you have any questions, write me a comment below and tag me when you blossom quilt @freebirdquiltingdesigns on IG and #blossomquilting so I can admire your work!

 

 

Comments

  1. Hi lm just about to start a lonestar quilt and love how you have quilted the individual diamond, silly question but did you do them by eye or how did you mark them. It’s a fabulous quilt!

    • Hello Connie, I used the quiltsmart lonestar pattern and definitely pieced without Y seams!

  3. just so awesome – thanks so much for sharing your quilting progress – the back looks just as good as the front xx

    • You’re very welcome, make sure you tag me if your on Instagram, I would love to have look!

  5. 1I just ran across this post this weekend. Had to sketch it out immediately! Absolutely beautiful. I have a quilt with 10 inch solid borders, this will look amazing on it. Thanks for sharing.

  6. Your quilting is so inspiring. Thank you for your tutorial. I couldn’t understand how you were able to go from pebbles to flowers, but it makes sense to make the flowers first, then go back and fill in. I saw that you used a curved ruler for your star, do you mind letting us know which one? I am getting the deconstructed lonestar kit and would love to use the same ruler. Thank you.

    • Hello Verena, I used the curved rulers from ‘the quilted pineapple’ they are perfect, make sure you tag me if you are on instagram, i would love to see your deconstructed lonestar come together.
      Carolyn

  7. Beautiful! Absolutely stunning! Thank you for the step by step instructions for the flowers. I will look forward to using them in my next quilt.

  8. This is amazing! I feel like I’ve been given permission to quilt the way that I’ve wanted to all along! I have a six-pointed star quilt top that is going to be given the “Free Bird” treatment!

    Thank you! I LOVE IT!!!

  9. I absolutely love everything about this quilt!!! I was first drawn in by the colour scheme, how did you do this if you don’t mind me asking?