Let's Do the Quilt Voodle

Published: Wed, 10/04/17

Voodle
Hi ,

Hello My Quilting Friends! Let's get right down to it with a brand new free motion quilting design with the cute fun name of Voodle.

This easy machine quilting design is a basic change-up of Paisley. Just add a circle in the end of the tear drop and you get a new design with an extra punch of travel stitching. 

Would you like to have a lot of beautiful quilting designs in an easy to browse place, maybe a book? Click Here to find 365 Free Motion Quilting Designs, a massive book of quilting designs.

We have a new version of the book with lay flat binding so you can spread out the book next to your machine and find the perfect design for any quilt.

​​​​​​​Now, a little more about Voodle...

Where do we quilt it? - Voodle can be quilted anywhere! Shrink it down into tiny Voodle shapes to quilt in the complicated spaces of your quilts or expand it to fill large bed quilts with a unique, funky texture.

  How to Machine Quilt Voodle, Easy Quilting Tutorial with Leah Day #487
Video
How to Piece the Diamond Dresden Block
Diamond Dresden
t's our tenth month of the Machine Quilting Block Party and time to make another Dresden Plate Quilt Block for our Flower Festival Quilt.

This month's Dresden block is super easy and fast to piece with twelve pointy petal shapes.

The wonderful thing about the pointy petal Dresden Plates is they are pieced to turn the edge. This makes them much faster to turn the points to create the finished applique shapes.

If you'd like to use our Dresden Plate Template set to skip making the paper template in the pattern, you can use Template #3 for this month's block. The Template sets are also on sale this month for $10.00 off their regular price. Click Here to learn more about the Dresden Template set.

  How to Piece a Diamond Dresden Plate Quilt Block - Beginner Quilting Tutorial with Leah Day
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Etsy Success with Deborah Fisher
Deborah Fisher
This week I'm chatting with a successful ceramic artist Deborah Fisher about running her Etsy shop and balancing ceramics with sewing, quilting, and the rest of her life.

Deborah began selling on Etsy last fall, but her store didn't take off until Quilt Con in Savannah, GA. That's where I met Deborah and fell in love with her work.


I'm still needing to add a thread pooping unicorn (pictured below) to my collection.

Deborah is also a quilter and sews the pincushions that come in most of the ceramics. She has published two books on quilting: Sew Fun: 20 Projects for the Whole Family and Quilt Giving: 19 Simple Patterns to Make and Give.

What I took from talking with Deborah is the importance of setting boundaries with your work. She creates 20 - 25 ceramics and schedules them to go up in her shop on a different day and time each month. She is trying her best to be fair to potential customers all over the world, but internet speeds fluctuate and as I've learned - you have to be really fast on the trigger!

Thread Unicorn
I'm the Featured Designer in Quilty Box This Month
Heart Medallion
Another exciting thing to join in this month is our Quilty Box Mini Quilt Along. I'm the featured designer for this month's Quilty Box and I've created a beautiful project for us to piece and quilt together.

Make sure to subscribe to Quilty Box and tune in starting Monday, October 16th for videos on how to piece and quilt this Heart Medallion Checkerboard quilt.

Since finishing the quilt, I've been using it as my tablecloth and I love seeing the cheerful fabrics and beautiful quilting on the table. Yes, the quilt has already been stained a bit, but honestly that makes me love it even more.

Whew! That's it for this week. I hope you enjoyed this interview with Deborah Fisher and learned a lot about selling on Etsy. Remember to check out our exclusive Dresden Template set, which is on sale for $49.99, ten dollars off its usual price.

Let's go quilt,

Leah Day