Orange Peels for the WIN!!

It is always hard to find easy designs to use for large backgrounds, but I think that the ORANGE PEEL is PERFECT!!

AND, you can have SO much fun when you vary the size of your starting squares…..

So, next time you want a great background, pull out the “ORANGE PEEL”!!

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Bad Hair Day

We all think that having a bad hair day is not a good thing, but a “Bad Hair Day” quilting design is just the ticket for practicing circles in ALL directions….

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It would be great quilting for a scrap quilt where you want lots of texture, or just as a practice piece to help you learn to move your hands in ALL directions!!

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EASILY quilt a Log Cabin Design

When you look at this design, your first thought may be, “It looks TOO HARD for me.”

That couldn’t be FURTHER from the truth.

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I love the texture that is so easily added to your blank alternating blocks…..

It is as easy as “JUMPING OFF A LOG”…… sorry….couldn’t resist!!

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Add some SWEET quilting to your sashing!!

Last week, we looked at the Wishbone design, which is just a series of swoops and loops!

This week, we continue swooping and looping, but in a different orientation.

Welcome to RIBBON CANDY!!

This is a magnificent design for sashing and small borders, and once you get the motion down, you can Ribbon Candy ALL day long!!

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Swoop and Loop for a border design

Today, let’s quilt a design that is perfect for sashing or narrow borders…..

I love how it looked in this sashing…..

AND, quilting the sashings this way was an easy way to stabilize the quilt before the more intense quilting began!!

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