Stem Centered
Free Motion Quilting Designs

Independent	Pivoting	Echoing	Foundational
Stacking	Overlapping	Interlocking	Branching
Stem Centered	Edge to Edge	Edge to Center	Center Fill

Stem Centered Designs are all created by first stitching a central stem through your quilting space. This could fill a small area of a block, sashing, and borders, or the entire quilt.

Once the quilt is filled with the stem, you then quilt back along it, branching out with leaves. To create new Stem Centered Designs, all you really need to do is change the leaves!

These designs are fairly complex and usually work best when you're either stitching over the whole surface of your quilt or in open, uncomplicated areas.

Leaf Vein	Rainforest Leaf	Fern & Stem	Elodea	Heart Vine
Spiky Fern	Feather Filler	Swirling Feathers	Tongue of Flames	Snake Spine
Trilobite	Butterfly Feathers	Complex Feather	Zigzag Fern	Line Fern
Moon Feathers	Echo Feather	Fiddlehead Fern	Pattern Fern