29 Reality-Based Post-Spock Freemotion Quilting Designs that Will Never Catch On

I decided to improve my freemotion quilting skills, so for the past week, I've been cramming the designs on Leah Day's website. I absolutely love and recommend everything about Leah's approach and products (no financial affiliation).

My only qualm is that she looks approximately 12 years old. And she emanates the fresh, perky,  youthful hope that even drawing-impaired oldsters like me can learn to generate her graceful designs. The other thing you need to know is that there's a lot of backtracking (going back over the same lines), with no stopping and starting, so that the thread doesn't have to be cut and restarted. It's a challenge and a skill that takes practice, practice, and more practice (plus a good sewing machine.)

So I've been practicing diligently, with a pencil on paper, as well as a sewing machine on quilt sandwiches. Here is one of my latest stitched samples, a strip about three feet long, right side first:

 Left side:

Friday evening, I poured myself a glass of wine, turned on The Sound of Music, grabbed a bunch of scrap paper and a pencil, and started inventing continuous freemotion designs relevant to my non-perky life. First, I divided blank paper into grids, and then doodled each into a different segment.


 These new designs (my obsession lasted all day yesterday, too), are sure to catch on nowhere:

Carpal Tunnel:

 Need Coffee:

Need Wine: 

Crow's Feet:

The Tension on my Bobbin Case has a Life of its Own: 

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 Need a Bernina Stitch Regulator:

Don't Talk to Me, I'm Concentrating:

Bane of Middle Aged Women (and some men):

 Found This Fabric at a Garage Sale, Should have Washed it First

Needs Pressing: 

Hot Flash:

 Nasolabial Folds:

I Collect Neckties, Someday I'm Going to Make a Quilt from Them:

Same for Tee Shirts: 

Stop Sewing, Take a Walk. 

 

(OK, a few of these don't have continuous lines. They need a little tweaking.) 

Need chocolate:

 Go for a Bike Ride, and/or Pizza:

Heat the Pizza in the Microwave, Fabric is Stashed in the Oven: 

Did Anyone Bring Donuts?

Go to the Gym:

Back to Weight Watchers I:

 Back to Weight Watchers, 2:

 Haven't Sewn in So Long that There are Spider Webs Between my Pedal and the Floor:

Spouse Encourages Quilting:

Three Shades of Grey are Plenty: 

This is Your Brain on Freemotion Quilting:

Tribute to Mr. Spock.

(Those are pointy ears with inexplicably long earlobes.).
RIP Leonard Nimoy. We are very, very sad in my house.
Star Trek Insignia:

The Vulcan/Jewish hand thing is the hardest. Here's my attempt:

What freemotion quilting designs have you invented? Feel free to link to them in the comments, or email me at cathy-dot-perlmutter-at-gmail-dot-com and I'll post your jpg in an update. .

 And if you wouldn't even know how to begin, get over to Leah Day's site, and start practicing. You'll thank me!

UPDATE 3/8: I just posted a sequel! Here's 14 more.