Reference and Inspiration: the Wild Quilting Oopsie

Recently I went to teach a free-motion quilting class here in Portland at Modern Domestic. I got everything ready, stacked on my table. I grabbed my teaching bag. I left early so I would have plenty of time to set up...but when I got to class I realized all my quilted samples were.... back home on the table. That's the first time I've done that, so embarrassing! We still had a great class but I promised my students I would post photos on the blog of the samples I meant to bring, to be reference and inspiration.

So here we go, reference and inspiration for everyone!! These samples are from my class Wild Quilting which I also teach on Craftsy.

First up: Divide and Conquer. You divide up the space and then quilt in between the divisions. So many ways to do this!

Next: Showboats. See how putting dense quilting around less densely quilted motifs makes them pop? 

And now, Grouped Designs. Notice how I keep the edges of the different groups from being squared, in favor of more flowing edges

And now, how about Layered Designs? Each layer builds up or down from the previous one. 

Now think about Blends, different "recipes" for designs repeated over and over.

And what's so fun about these techniques is you can switch between them at any time, as you can see on these fusion samples!

Wild Quilting is fun and if you're wondering if you can do quilting like this the answer is YES you can! If you want to see me quilting these designs check out my class on Craftsy. I hope this has given you ideas for quilting you'd like to try. Happy stitching!