Still stichin’ the same old motif? Well this weeks giveaway Creative Classics by Laura Lee Fritz will recharge some old favorites with playful new continuous line variations. I just love flipping through this book. It brings me back to the endless doodles cascading down the edge of my notebook after a little too long history lecture. Only Laura Lee’s are much more imaginative and offer greater variation. The chapter titles alone lend you the flavor of her creations; Clowning Around with the Clamshell, Worldly Waves, Scintillating Serpentines, Be-Bop The Baptist Fan and Flaunting the Feathers.
Warning! With 250 awesome designs to choose from you might never be able to choose! That’s a good problem and the book helps with the planning and implementing of your design. These motifs work for both hand and machine quilting, and for long-arm as well as short-arm machines. In other words it’s for everyone!
For a chance to win a copy of Creative Classics leave a comment here or on Facebook by August 3 , 2009 telling us your favorite quilting motif.
Good luck!
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My favorite quilting motif has got to be leaves and swirls because that if what I use the most. I think I probably need to learn something new.
I’m too much of a beginner to have a favorite; I’ve done the SID and meandoring. I’ve tried being creative and once did a continuous flower motif in a border…would certainly like to expand my limited knowledge of quilting.
I am partial to hearts, I always seem to end up quilting at least one in everything I do. I would love to have some inspiration and designs to try.
I think that one of my favorite machine quilting motifs is a clamshell. And I’m always doodling to see if I can come up with a variation. Well wait.. maybe leaves are my favorite. I do them quite often, too.
In any case, pick me! pick me! LOL! I can use more ideas.
I adore anything that swirls!
This book looks fantastic. I’ve actually been doing some research and wanting to create some quilting exercises, to improve my expertise. And, of course, write about this on my blog. This book looks like it would really help. Can’t wait to check it out.
SewCalGal
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I have been eyeing Laura’s book!! I love trying new free motion patterns!
I have seen a bicycle quilted into a quit before and that really blew me away. Im not ‘advanced’ enough to do that sort of work yet, but Im working that way!
Thanks for the chance.
Yes, I am in a rut, so this book by Laura Lee is the help I need. I will keep my fingers crossed.
Thanks :)
Laura
Would love to learn how to quilt my quilts – just seem to be a little scared to try, maybe need to try something small first. Robert in northern Iowa.
Oh, how nice. I’ve been into learning more about machine quilting and branching out from the standard stippling that I tend to stick to. This would be a great book to help me expand my wings and try a few new things.
My favorite has always been feathers, but I can’t seem to make them :-(
I took a class with Laura several years ago. She’s a lovely talented person!
What a great book as I’m learning to do the quilting motifs.
Trained on my Gammill with Laura…, love her clouds! she is soo imaginative, I’m always inspired with her drawings.
I really like anything with a southwest design. Maybe this book will help me to get more creative!
I love to quilt daisies. I do loop-d-loops and throw in a daisy here and there. Fun. I quilt on a domestic sewing machine and love to doodle with my needle.
This is cool… My favorite quilting motif is swirls. I also like ‘Ricky doodles’….I do a lot of doodling, circles and stuff…
I did a mystery quilt with a fabric that had acorns on it, and the resulting quilt had an acorn-like block. What luck. My longarm quilter added a quilting motif with oak leaves and acorns which was just perfect!!
I love swirls and loops. Thanks!
I have done so little quilting (too knew) that I don’t yet have a favorite that I use over an over. My most successful one has been to echo the shape of a single flower with stalk in the background of an art quilt of a single flower.
I love flowers and leaves. Thanks for the chance.
well, I have to admit that I am new to continous line quilting so, at the moment I do not have a favorite motif…just doodles and free form.
For some reason I always seem to come back to a simple rose design I worked out years ago. It varies from time to time, but it doesn’t work on boys quilts – so then I just do a spiral…
I seem to be stuck in the same old quilting designs. I do them well because I’ve done a lot of quilts using those designs, but I would love to have this book in order to find some new and interesting designs. I would be happy to win it. Thanks for the chance. Hazel S.
WOW! 250 Designs in ONE book. That’s awesome. This one is definitely going on my wish list!
I love Laura Lee Fritz’s books – she has great ideas that are easy to transfer to stitches!
I love straight maze motifs!
I’m fascinated by continuous line quilting patterns. I like anything with lots of curves.
I love doing leaves and fern-type plants, but also daisy flowers. More recently I started doing foxglove-type flowers with long stalks and swirls.
I think I’d have to say that the spiral with flower petals is my favorite quilting motif.
I took a class from Laura Lee about 10 years ago, when I started longarm quilting. She is so talented. I love quilting leaves, all kinds of leaves. You can even make feathers look like flowing leaves.
I am more of a crazy quilter, but have done a few “sane” quilts or small projects. I stick more to stippling when machine quilting. Would love to expand my horizons and give it a go.
Debra
This looks so interesting. I would love to win it. I am always in need of quilting ideas.
I have one of her other books and love it. Lots of great ideas for getting those tops quilted.
Oh I would love to win this book – such pretty designs.
My quilting truly needs some inspiration and creativity. I only quilt for myself, but I am tired of the same swirls and meander. I will just keep practicing and attempting new designs, the book looks very interesting and I think would be very helpful. Thanks for offering such a great give away.
Feathers are my absolute favorite motifs…especially a feather heart! I also love doing continuous line daisy flowers (kind of like a daisy chain with loops and swirls). Free-motion quilting is my favorite, but I do wish I could follow the lines of stencil designs. I think I get too nervous when I’m trying to follow someone else’s pattern! Generally I’ll practice designs I like on paper until I can do it without thinking, then I practice on a sample quilt sandwich, and FINALLY, I do the real thing (but I sure wish I could be as confident on the “real” thing as I am on a practice piece!).
I love free forming leaves and twig designs. Also, ocean waves are beautiful. Gosh, there really isn’t a design that I don’t like.
Hearts are pretty…
This book might be the book to help me break down the wall I hit once I finish a quilt top! I get so frustrated when I cannot look at the quilt top and “see” how it should be quilted. Maybe I didn’t doodle enough during school! :)
I’m new quilting, have yet to finish one! And I’ve been paying attention to all the different motifs I see. Hearts have seemed to catch my eye the most, but I actually like the way simple lines vertically in the quilt make it look and give it some texture.
Those design previews look awesome! I would love to be able to quilt like that.
Laura Lee Fritz’ books are fabulous, and I don’t have this one yet!!!!!