Graffiti quilting

Grafitti quilting is a style of free motion quilting where you take the different quilting designs you love and use them all, mixing them up and joining them together. I've admired the style for a long time, but I was intimidated by it, so I kept putting off trying it. This project seemed like the perfect one to finally give graffiti quilting a try. These blocks were made as tests to be sure my cutting directions were right for the blocks in my Friendship Galaxy baby quilt, and I have no…

I was struck the other day by this bit from Mr X's recent TEDx talk:

HAPPY FALL, everyone! Time to get snuggly with this wool-batted bear paw quilt made with beautiful jewel-toned batik fabrics! Graffiti 13 E2E on Jan's 69 x 69 Bear Tracks Quilt Jan used the Bear Tracks Quilt pattern from Island Batik Ambassador Jackie O'Brien, available as a FREE PDF download on her web site here. When Jan brought this quilt top to me for quilting, she had seen pictures of the bear paw quilt "Color Outside the Lines" I made a couple years ago that I quilted with one of…

Cassandra Madge Graffiti Quilting sample

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Free motion quilting design Graffiti quilting style

I have a few exciting teaching announcements and a ton of planning, prepping, stitching, retreating, drawing, and scheming ahead of me. I will make this post picture heavy and hopefully brief. I have been invited to teach at some very exciting shows in 2016 and I couldn't be more excited! QUILTCON FEB 2016 To start the year I will be at Quiltcon in Pasadena teaching, all hands on classes. I had an amazing time in Austin and am really looking forward to February. MQX APRIL 2016 In April I…

This week I have been OBSESSED with doodling. Quilty doodles that is! Several people were posting picture on Instagram with their daily quilty doodles and graffiti quilting drawings. (#dailyquiltyd…

Graffiti Quilting Crash Course! – Karlee Porter