Free Motion Quilting: Paisley

The 4th most popular free motion quilting filler design is called Paisley. You often see this design around appliqué and filling up large portions of the background.

Paisley is easy to create and quilts up pretty quickly into a nice finish.

Learn how to stitch Paisley in your quilts with this Free Motion Quilting Video:

Paisley is very similar to echo shell, but the main difference lies in how the echos start and stop around the central shape.

In paisley, you start with a tear drop and echo with more tear drop shapes, meaning your quilting lines come to a point around the shape.

In Echo Shell, you echo around the space, then travel, giving your echos more space where they begin and end.

Okay, I'll admit it! Of all the 4 most famous free motion quilting designs, I HATE paisley.

In fact, it can be argued that the paisley design is the entire reason I started the 365 days of free motion quilting project. While discussing the designs used in Release Your Light, I was complaining that I needed at least one new design so that areas of McTavishing wouldn't butt up against one another.

My friend asked "What about paisley?" and I shared my deep and abiding hatred of that design. She replied "Why not change it a little?" and showed me the most wonderful variation which I now call Flame Stitch.

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So it just proves that even things you don't like can still be the source of amazing creativity.

Learn how to quilt the 4 most popular quilting designs! Click on the links below:

Microstippling

McTavishing

Pebbling

Paisley

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