Stitch and Paint a Beautiful Quilt

Published: Wed, 03/16/16

Landscape embroidery design
Hi ,

Do you love coloring books? Adult coloring books are all the rage with tiny spaces and intense detail to color with fine tipped markers or colored pencils.

But what if we could get the same creative boost of coloring, but with a stitched design instead? 

Yes, I've been working on a new series of machine embroidery designs I'm calling Stitch n' Paint because they are designed for you to stitch them out, then paint the surface!

Landscape Embroidery Design
Landscape Embroidery Design
This beautiful landscape design will give you lots of opportunity to play with color over the sun, flowing sky, and landscape spaces.

This design is conveniently sized at 5 x 7 inches so you can easily trim the edges and frame it in a standard picture frame. It's also available in all the major embroidery design file types: ART, ART USB EXP, DST, EXP, HUS, JEF, PCS, PES, SEW, VIP, VP3, XXX.

Of course you can get the best deal on this new Stitch n' Paint design this week only.

How to Machine Quilt Block #3
Quilting Block 3
Are you ready to machine quilt your next block for the Machine Quilting Block Party?

We're going to be stitching our Sun Star block up a notch with many beautiful designs and, at least in my case, multiple thread colors.

I decided to use both white and pumpkin Isacord thread so my lines should show up a bit better and this beautiful quilting design would get more attention!

My favorite part of this block is the echoes and wiggly rays in the yellow sections of the block. When split up with the orange sections, it ends up looking like a split sun.

Make sure to use a thread color that stands out in this area because you don't want to miss out on this cool effect.

Click here to watch how to quilt Block #3.

Practice Sheet for Quilting Echo Shell
echo shell
This month our feature quilting design is Echo Shell, one of my favorite designs based on a traditional Baptist Fan, pictured at left.

I've included an extra practice worksheet in your pattern for block #3 so you can get more familiar with this design and stitch a few practice sandwiches with it.

Echo Shell is a very simple design based on a half or quarter circle shape that's expanded with travel stitching and echoes to create clusters of the design.

Echo Shell is such an easy, beginner level design that it's one of my favorites to teach to beginners.


Until next week, let's go quilt!

Leah Day