We have big plans for applique this year and it all starts in three weeks. We've long admired Garrard County's appliqued medallions like Amanda Estill Moran's recorded by the Kentucky Quilt Project. See more about her quilt in a post here: https://civilwarquilts.blogspot.com/2023/08/amanda-estill-morans-civil-war.htmlAnd more about the related Kentucky quilts here in a post about Garrard County (pronounced to rhyme with Herod like King Herod.) https://barbarabrackman.blogspot.com/2012/02/garrard-county-kentucky.html Numerous talented quilters have also been inspired by the medallion format: Merri Garton's recent version of Deb King's "Deb's Not Telling the Whole Truth" in Australia. They tell me the name comes from the fact that Deb told them it would be simple.Simple that medallion is NOT. Becky B.'s palette: Red & green on an updated toile with blues. We are making it even more complicated. There will be every other month in 2024 (March, May, July and September) a pattern for a medallion interpretation of the Kentucky Classic medallion, some with blocks repeated. We'll also show you Becky Brown's changes to the pattern. On the last Wednesdays from March through November there will be nine single-block patterns to set side-by-side---much less intimidating and better for those of us with the short attention span. The medallion set requires 4 copies of some of the blocks. The monthly side-by-side sets requires only one each of the nine blocks. Side by Side Becky Collis is making the Medallion format too, using red & green but with a contemporary tilt. One large-scale, several small-scale prints and a couple of vivid solids. Her background-almost white, almost gray. Now you are going to ask How Much Fabric do I need????? You always ask that. My best guesses (it's always a guess with the mathematically challenged.) For the side by side below: Background fabrics for the medallion below: 2-1/2 Yards (Plus extra for a border if you want to add one.) For the applique. The first question is always: Scrappy or Consistent Across the Blocks? For scrappy: Fat quarters of 3 lights, mediums & darks to contrast with your background. Do shop in your stash. For consistent: I'd buy 1-1/4 yards of at least 5 fabrics. Now just to further overwhelm you I am showing you Rita Verroca's interpretation of the Garrard County classics, which she calls Sundance. She's added a lot---birds & sunflowers. Her fabrics are traditional red and green, a bit of pink and chrome orange. It is just amazing. Buy the pattern here ($120). https://www.ritaverrocaquilts.com/shop/66qmjrlc0yzqyggpipf16tua1wccky Look for our first pattern in Kentucky Classic March 27th. Here's our Facebook group where you can post your own pix and see what others are up to. KentuckyClassicQuilt https://www.facebook.com/groups/801364155168186 And you can find a pattern at my Etsy shop---$12: Kentucky Classic, Traditional Applique, Civil War Quilts, Barbara Brackman, BOM Applique - Etsy
We have big plans for applique this year and it all starts in three weeks. We've long admired Garrard County's appliqued medallions like Amanda Estill Moran's recorded by the Kentucky Quilt Project. See more about her quilt in a post here: https://civilwarquilts.blogspot.com/2023/08/amanda-estill-morans-civil-war.htmlAnd more about the related Kentucky quilts here in a post about Garrard County (pronounced to rhyme with Herod like King Herod.) https://barbarabrackman.blogspot.com/2012/02/garrard-county-kentucky.html Numerous talented quilters have also been inspired by the medallion format: Merri Garton's recent version of Deb King's "Deb's Not Telling the Whole Truth" in Australia. They tell me the name comes from the fact that Deb told them it would be simple.Simple that medallion is NOT. Becky B.'s palette: Red & green on an updated toile with blues. We are making it even more complicated. There will be every other month in 2024 (March, May, July and September) a pattern for a medallion interpretation of the Kentucky Classic medallion, some with blocks repeated. We'll also show you Becky Brown's changes to the pattern. On the last Wednesdays from March through November there will be nine single-block patterns to set side-by-side---much less intimidating and better for those of us with the short attention span. The medallion set requires 4 copies of some of the blocks. The monthly side-by-side sets requires only one each of the nine blocks. Side by Side Becky Collis is making the Medallion format too, using red & green but with a contemporary tilt. One large-scale, several small-scale prints and a couple of vivid solids. Her background-almost white, almost gray. Now you are going to ask How Much Fabric do I need????? You always ask that. My best guesses (it's always a guess with the mathematically challenged.) For the side by side below: Background fabrics for the medallion below: 2-1/2 Yards (Plus extra for a border if you want to add one.) For the applique. The first question is always: Scrappy or Consistent Across the Blocks? For scrappy: Fat quarters of 3 lights, mediums & darks to contrast with your background. Do shop in your stash. For consistent: I'd buy 1-1/4 yards of at least 5 fabrics. Now just to further overwhelm you I am showing you Rita Verroca's interpretation of the Garrard County classics, which she calls Sundance. She's added a lot---birds & sunflowers. Her fabrics are traditional red and green, a bit of pink and chrome orange. It is just amazing. Buy the pattern here ($120). https://www.ritaverrocaquilts.com/shop/66qmjrlc0yzqyggpipf16tua1wccky Look for our first pattern in Kentucky Classic March 27th. Here's our Facebook group where you can post your own pix and see what others are up to. KentuckyClassicQuilt https://www.facebook.com/groups/801364155168186 And you can find a pattern at my Etsy shop---$12: Kentucky Classic, Traditional Applique, Civil War Quilts, Barbara Brackman, BOM Applique - Etsy
*This pattern will ship to you by October 15, 2024* Cheerful frogs hop amidst a vibrant landscape of pinwheels and florals in this lively quilt. Charm pack friendly. New: Includes a scannable link to download SVG files of all applique pieces. Finished size: 32" x 40" Fabric is Hello Spring by meags & me for Clothworks- Coming October 2024. See our other patterns here: http://www.etsy.com/shop/meagsandme?section_id=10043236
Choose your favorite 5" charm squares to make you own cute and scrappy My Town quilt!
52 of my favorite modern quilts from QuiltCon 2024.
No longer are you stuck with boring simple baby quilt kits. Continue reading for 10 modern patchwork quilts you can start this weekend!
Puntuale come le tasse di fine anno ecco il tradizionale post sul colore Pantone dell'anno 2024! PANTONE 13-1024 Peach Fuzz è il colore dell'anno 2024 secondo PANTONE Qual è il colore Pantone 2024? Il colore Pantone 2024 è chiamato Peach Fuzz 13-1024, una tonalità di pesca delicata e morbida,
Hey there, fellow quilter and fabric enthusiast! I'm so excited to share one of my latest creations with you – the 2024 Pantone Color of the Year - Peach Fuzz - Orangewood Quilt. This project has been an absolute delight to work on, and I can't wait to tell you all about it. So, grab your favorite cozy drink, settle in, and let’s dive into the story of this vibrant quilt together!
Happy New Year Everyone - I'm so looking forward to quilting with you 2024! This year will be full of a lot of fun quilting projects that I can't wait to share with you.To celebrate my birthday, we are having a surprise Mystery Block Quilt Along and I am planning to post here on our blog every week with at least 1 new 6" finished quilt block design!I am sew thankful to all of you that want to join me on this Birthday Quilt Along.The FUN starts NOW!You can start making this quilt with the recomme
If you have been following me this year you know that I have been working on several UFO quilts for donation. Some I pieced over the last few years, some were in multiple stages which made them UFO's. I managed to get seven of them to flimsy stage and have been quilting them up in the last couple weeks. I had to order batting in order to finish them all. Here is my parade of 2024 donation quilts... These elongated string blocks were started many years ago, ahem 2018! When my grandsons were over we worked on them off and on and then I finished a bunch myself. These strings are sewn onto phonebook pages, I taped two together to get a long strip. This first one was pieced to flimsy stage a couple years ago. As you can see we had a rainbow of string blocks and enough for two quilts. The blocks were pieced a couple years ago and I brought it to flimsy stage, quilted and bound it this year. An elephant print flannel was perfect for the back of this one. Another type of string quilt was pieced and into flimsy stage when I left off with it many years ago. I couldn't decide back then if I wanted to make it bigger. This year I found the answer. Nope I did not, LOL. I wanted it quilted and out the door into the hands of someone that needed a quilty hug. This one is a free pattern from A Bright Corner called Preppy and was pieced in 2021 and quilted recently. This one has a fleece backing and no batting for a soft cuddly quilt. I talked more about this nine patch one HERE. More info on this one HERE I found a panel in the stash that someone had given me a while back and it worked perfectly for the backing! This was never a UFO as I pieced it in June and quilted in July. The pattern is White Cloud from Villa Rosa Designs. You might remember I made a Yellow and Gray one with the same pattern. They really look different don't they! That's all seven quilts that I have ready to send back with my daughter-in-law this weekend, she takes them with her church group to Minneapolis to hand out to the needy. I still have more I would like to finish up, three of which only need quilting but I ran out of time and energy for it right now. In the evenings I have been hand knitting kid slippers to send with her also. I have a dozen ready. Linking with TGIFF, Finished or Not Friday, Off The Wall Friday, Beauties Pageant and Oh Scrap! Accuquilt sale---July 11-31 (affiliate link) Christmas in July -- 25% off + free ground shipping when you spend $99 (Use Code: JULY25)
My list was smallish for this week - try to finish 6 cat blocks and cut out the sashing ready to go.✅ - sew on the hanging sleeve to my background filler project❌ - take some photos of my Christmas quilt. I think I will put that in my Etsy shop for sale even though it is a bit late now...well, there's always next year.✅ The last bit of the cat quilt went quicker as I could see the end. I chain pieced along saying the names of the individual cats as I was sewing along so I would not get confused. Must have been really focussed as I did not mix up their faces 😂 Ran into a bit of trouble as I thought I had oodles of background fabric. Well, as it turned out it was just enough. Had a mild suspicion when I started to cut out the sashings. I have a table which tells me how many pieces I can get out of one strip. for the sashing it was 4, 10-1/2in pieces per strip but as I was starting to cut I noticed that I was only yielding 3 pieces! I then cut my outside borders as well of which I needed 8, 4in strips so that ate up a lot of fabric. In the end I had to cut some off some length from my border strips to make the sashings go the distance. A few anxious moments there and I thought that in the future I will put my background fabric away with the UFO. As years pass I do forget what I am working on or better said what I have stuffed away somewhere and it is just too easy to cut into your background fabric when you actually need it. Lesson learnt. Here is the completed quilt top It turned out so pretty, just like I had envisaged it. The quilt will measure about 57in x 66in. Had to go yesterday to look for some backing and batting and spent half a fortune acquiring it. Washed the backing and now just have to find some spare time to put it all together. Looking forward to quilting this. Today then I finally put up my Christmas quilt in my Etsy shop. It is a bit late but what can you do. There is always next year. Its a pretty little quilt. I used wool batting which makes this nicely soft and a little bit puffy. The quilt measures 32-5/8in x 47-1/2in, so a good size for a bit of a fun festive wall hanging to adorn the halls. Glad this is done so that I now can concentrate on other projects. Again, planning is the magic word rather than jumping around all over the place which I have been doing over the last few months. Linking up to To Do Tuesday #51 over at Quilt Schmilt. Karin
This jacket features an oversized fit and a lightweight material. It has a quilted pattern and open slant pockets. This jacket features a hanger strap detail on the back and a concealed snap button closure. This jacket comes in green. Influencer: @clairerose is 170 cm tall and is wearing size EU 36 (UK 10, US 6, small).
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As ya'll know, Robert Kaufman, Kona Solids are my FAVORITE. There is such a variety of colors (365 to be exact!), and the weight is perfect for quilting. They stitch up so nicely, and I love the texture that they give a quilt after its first wash. Robert Kaufman does a limited edition
Looking back at the most popular posts, tutorials and quilts from 2023. Plus looking ahead with goals and plans for next year.
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The final step in finishing a quilt is to label it. Labeling is a great way to preserve the history of your quilt. Imagine a family member using your gifted quilt 50 years from now. Wouldn’t it be great if they knew exactly who made it and when it was made? You can’t beat having...
Hello 2024! It's a new year and that means there's a new block challenge from the team Riley Blake Designs! And that includes me! I've been a part of the past few years and it's a bunch of fun! This year promises to be just as fun and creative. If you're ready to sew a fun quilt throughout the first half of 2024 - this
Do you love hexie flowers? If so, we've collected five lovely hexie flower projects for you to choose from whether you have one, a few, or a garden of hexie flowers waiting for their forever home in a project. Read through to find a variety of quilts and accessories. There's something for everyone!
