Looking for a garden-inspired quilting design? There are plenty of quilting ideas out there for flowers and leaves, but how about adding a garden path to your pattern library?
This garden path design is based on the flow of the filler design called pebbles / pebbling. Instead of repeating tiny circles though, we use irregular shapes. Shapes you would find in a flagstone garden path. Pieced to fit together like a complex puzzle, each shape different from the other.
Having each shape being different gives you a lot freedom to fill any area, and it will allow you to vary the size of the shapes.
Just as with pebbling, you travel along the edge of the shape to create a new shape. All this traveling along the already stitched line can build up your thread and make it highly noticeable.
I used a regular 40W thread in the bobbin, but a thinner type on the top to prevent the thread building up overwhelming the quilt top. I used Superior Threads – Bottom Line thread, which is a 60W thread as the top thread.(The higher the number, the thinner the thread.) I know quilters sometimes use an 80W or even a 100W for this type of design. Those threads can be a bit harder to find here in the Netherlands, so I am pretty happy with the result of using the 60W thread.
The downfall of this thinner thread though is that it is a bit more difficult to see in the YouTube video. You can see the design develop though.
As always, you can stitch out this type of design as big as you want to.
I am contemplating writing a tutorial about the pebbles design and its possible variations for the Summer. Is that something that you would be interested in?
Hugs
Esther
ipatchandquilt 
I enjoy every one of your designs and always look forward to the next one! Thank you!