Ready to practice your modern machine quilting? Try these 2 fabulous free-motion fills and see how you can tweak them to make them your own. Click the video below to watch:
Featured Quilt – Surplus Strips
I turned the bumps from clamshells into a floral swirl design by combining them with a basic swirl technique. Then I quilted it edge to edge on the white version below Grab the Surplus Strips quilt pattern to make one for yourself!
Bonus Video – Quilting Surplus Strips 2 Ways
See how I quilted both of the quilts below using 2 different free-motion motifs. You can apply any design I’m sharing with you as an edge-to edge design on any quilt in your UFO pile!
More Ideas for Quilting Clamshells
The pink quilt below shows clamshells as a background design, repeating the motif in the center. The dramatic black/teal whole cloth utilizes clamshells as a filler motif to highlight the focal point of this design.
Both of these patterns and their quilting plans can be found in my book, The Ultimate Guide to Machine Quilting.
What do you think? Would you quilt either of these designs on a quilt??
Christa Quilts 
I love both the designs you showed today. You have broken up the large triangles very creatively in the pink quilt. I would not have thought of that and will be trying it. And what can I say about your marvelous butterflies in the black quilt?! They are wonderful! I would love to try that on a small quilt and also to use parts of it in a large quilt. It is amazing!! Thank you for sharing your quilting ideas.