Spider Web Quilting

Last week I shared how to create an asymmetrical block.  Harvest Stars was colored with All Hallows Eve, a Moda fabric collection by Fig Tree Design.  I then created a number of quilt options using Symmetry in Electric Quilt 8. 

If you missed the tutorial, you can still catch it here.  ​

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Spider Web by Ruth Finley published in 1929 (from Blockbase)

This week I decided to create a quilting design for the Harvest Stars quilt.  I originally pulled a quilt block called Spider Web from Block Base and set it on my quilt.  But I wasn't super excited by all the straight lines.

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Spider Web Quilt Video

In my Electric Quilt 8 video tutorial this week, I will show you turn a Kaleidoscope block from the EQ library into the Spider Web-like block designed by Finley.  (If you have Block Base, you can import this block instead of drafting it as I did.)

​Then we will use this block to create an applique motif that may be set on Layer 3 of a quilt in Electric Quilt.

Here is my spider web quilting design.

Spider Web Stencil by Kari Schell

Quilting the Spider Web Design

This is one of those designs that would be super forgiving when stitching out either on a longarm or on a domestic quilting machine.  Start by quilting the straight lines.  Then add the continuous curves.  The curved lines don't need to be "perfect" -- just sew a gentle curve from one straight line to the next.

This design would work for a Halloween quilt, a fall harvest quilt -- or any quilt that could benefit from some gentle curves.

I applied the Spider Web stencil to the Harvest Stars quilt from last week.  The Spider Web stencil was set at 16 inches x 16 inches.  

This did leave some holes in the corner that would need to be filled.  I found a spider block in the EQ library that I modified to turn into a quilting design and added to the quilt.  (Instructions for this were not included in the video tutorial.)

Spider Applique Block from the EQ8 Block Library

Spider Motif -- modifications from the EQ8 spider completed by Kari Schell.

Just for fun, I tried the Spider Web stencil on a different pieced block.

Where would you apply this stencil?

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Happy quilting.

​Kari

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