Lisa’s Farm Sweet Farm Quilt

So excited to share Lisa’s amazing Farm Sweet Farm quilt with you!! The pattern and fabrics are by Lori Holt.

Lisa reach out and requested some custom quilting on her amazing quilt, and I totally agree. A quilt like this, deserves the attention to detail. I wish my pictures were better, they definitely don’t do this quilt justice.

Whenever I quilt a quilt like this, I try to mix the curves with the hard lines, they play so great together. I also don’t want to make it too cutesy.

I started off with 1/2” lines in the border. Check out the video I posted on my Instagram to see me quilting it. I also quilted the thin inner border with a pebble. There is a video for that as well. I kept the quilting in the animals bodies pretty simple with various different lines at different angles.

More and more lines throughout the trees, barn, and windmill. I love using Edge rulers from Linda at The Quilted Pineapple.

The farmers , tractor, animals, and plants all got a little bit of quilting.

I love the lines details in these three trees. 1/2” on point lines, double pinstripes, and a plaid…are just so fun together.

I also decided to quilt my Overlapping Circles design in the background, and I love how it makes all the appliqués pop!! I quilt my Overlapping Circles freehand, here is a video of me quilting this quilt. If you’d like to learn how to freemotion quilt, my Overlapping Circles is one of the designs I teach in my Quilting It Freemotion course. You can pick and choose from 10 different designs, or buy the whole course. They are available in my shop.

Quilting around buttons can be difficult. That’s why I had to rethink the quilting on the blades of the windmill. I think it turned out so great! Plus, I was loving the look for 4 pinstripes in the cloud.

The barn got some 1/2” lines in a variety of different angles.

I quilted all the star blocks the same. I used my 2” Circle2™ rulers to quilt all the curves in the smaller star blocks.

My Circle2 rulers come in a set of 6, which gives you 12 different sizes of circles. Ranging from 2” to 13”. As you can see the 2” ruler, has an 8” circle on the outside. Below the 4” ruler has a 10” circle on the outside. For more info on my rulers, check them out in my shop.

- Design Patent D875,574 -

I used the 4” Circle2™ to quilt the curves in the star blocks that are in the four corners.

I used my favorite 8020 cotton poly blend batting from Winline Textiles, and Natural White Omni thread to quilt the entire quilt.

If you follow me on Instagram you may have seen me share about the quilting on this quilt as I was quilting it. If you’re interested in following along, and you don’t quite yet. Click here: @leishakaye

Thanks for stopping by!! Have a great week! Leisha

• If you have something you’d like me to quilt, check out my Longarm Quilting Services page for info, and then send me an email at quiltingit@gmail.com • thank you!