Poppy Machine Quilting Tutorial

 Lori Kennedy has on her website an excellent tutorial with plenty of pictures showing how to machine quilt a poppy.

Here is a link to her website. I have also included the images and steps below (her website allows this as long as we show attribution).  Enjoy!

THE POPPY-A MACHINE QUILTING TUTORIAL

Begin by stitching the edge of one of the petals–a short line. (NOTE-since this is a background fill or allover motif–we are not starting in the center.)

Add a large oval, then stitch the first full petal.

Add several more large petals around the central oval.

Complete the petals and stitch toward the center oval.

Stitch around the oval with a jagged, scribbly line.

Closely echo stitch around the petals to add more definition to the Poppy.

  

Add another row of close echo stitching to travel to the area where you would like to begin the next Poppy.

Do not worry if the petals of the Poppies are odd shapes–they will look like they overlap.    It is more important to keep the Poppies very close together than it is to make perfectly shaped petals.