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Spider Web Quilting

11/2/2019

 
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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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PictureSpider 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.


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.
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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.  
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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.)
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Spider Applique Block from the EQ8 Block Library
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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.
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Where would you apply this stencil?

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Happy quilting.

​Kari

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Delores
11/2/2019 11:49:32 am

Neat!

Maureen A Pinwill
11/2/2019 12:10:43 pm

What a nice surprise to find this lovely stencil in my email box. I will certainly add this to a selection of fall table place mats for next Halloween. I know a cheeky little 5yr old who will just love it. Thankyou :)


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