Blank Quilting Doctors Are Everyday Heroes Bandaids White Cotton Fabric By The Yard Manufacturer: Blank Quilting 100% Cotton 44/45" Wide 30128
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Free large hexagon quilt pattern & template. Make a simple hexagon quilt with no Y seams with our tutorial. Uses half hexagon quilt pieces.
I will be the first to admit that technically speaking, I am not a quilter, I am a piecer. I love selecting the fabrics for a quilt and putting together
Cotton flannel fabric with a medical theme - bandaids and Rx bottles in brown on a creamy background. Perfect for nurse scrubs, quilting or various sewing projects. This is in unused, unwashed good condition. Selvage marked 5 Funky Monkey by erin Michael for moda. Measures 52"L x 43"W Check out my store for more vintage fun fabrics here: https://www.etsy.com/shop/binguspingusart ********************************************************************** If you have questions about multiple orders & cost of combined shipping please send me a message!
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Thank you for all of your great responses to my last Quilting on a Budget post! It is good motivation for me try to save some money and use what I have...so I don't feel guilty buying some of the new cute lines coming out this year! ;) Ashley posted this fabulous tutorial called two by...Read More
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I recently posted some snapshots of this quilt in various places… …and I have gotten some great feedback and requests for a pattern. So I thought I would put together a little tutorial. This qui…
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This no mark stitch & flip technique is quick, easy, and sew-fun! It will save you tons of time on your quilting journey — we guarantee it!
The Zed Quilt pattern is a PDF quilt pattern that uses half square triangles and rectangles to make a fun, FQ friendly lap quilt.
I avoided opening night of Art Quilt Elements 2012 knowing I'd much rather be there when I could have unfettered views of the beautiful work. So I went the day after it opened instead! Overall, it's a good show, but I wasn't as blown away as I was for the 2010 exhibition. Of course, that may just be that I'm more familiar with many of the artists. This year's selection seemed to have fewer artists exploring surface design or stitching, and more hearkening back to quilt traditions. The following works were the stars of the show in my book, for their interesting structures, use of color, and interpretation of quilt arts. Eileen Lauterborn's "Climate Change" graces the postcard and catalog cover, and it's easy to see why: there is an explosion of color and intriguing textural technique. There are layers and layers of thin strips of cloth overlapped and zigzagged. Normally I'm a diehard for hand-stitching, but the machine stitched zigzagging echoes the movement of the strips for a perfect marriage of form and function. The complex surface sucks you in, and you are lost in the labyrinth of lines. Marianne R. Williamson's quilt was another piece with lush surface color and texture. She layers raw edge scraps and densely stitches them down in free-motion stitching so that the fabric almost looks felted. Her color is gorgeous with an impressionistic effect. One of my real favorites in Art Quilt Elements is Betty Busby's "Organelle". Her quilting stitches were really like an intricate drawing of the enlarged microscopic view. Across the gallery from Busby's organic piece was Beth Barron's "Implosion": From afar I was fascinated by the unusual form and jagged edge. Up close there's an "EEW!" factor- the entire piece is made of FOUND bandaids appliqued to the cloth surface. I really don't want to think about the sanitary issues of working on something like this, but the resulting wound-like piece is incredible. There's no bandaid to cover up a wound that big. One artist utilizes the traditions of quiltmaking, but brings them to new heights by combining and juxtaposing myriad piecing patterns. Mary Shell's "Colors Unfurled AKA if Betsy Ross had my Stash" combines quilt arts with Jasper Johns, with a separate quilt pattern to represent each stripe and a starburst for each state. Commercial fabrics were pretty common this year, but none so transformed as by Shawn P. Quinlan: Motifs from various commercial fabrics were appliqued to create a narrative composition of commercialism gone haywire. Careful, baby, there's sharks in the water, and the toy store's on fire! I enjoyed Mary Ruth Smith's piece, below, for it's emphasis on stitching, and I really like her layering of transparent cloth over digitally printed images and perhaps even paper. I'd love to be a fly on her studio wall sometime. But technique aside, she uses newspaper clippings- text, crossword and sudoku puzzles, comics, and story illustrations, which show the onslaught of media information we must filter through. I much preferred her subtle comment on media and current events over a nearby piece with the words "War sucks" emblazoned over the cloth. Newspaper and media references continued in Jette Clover's typographic exploration (left below). I most enjoy the technical virtuosity of work like Ilene Pearlman's (right above) which combined reverse applique and trapped found objects o create a dream-like atmosphere, and the unusual format of Brooke Atherton's "I feel free" (below). As I've recently been stitching on found garments, I enjoyed seeing the yellow blouse stitched into the quilt- apparently it was something worn to friend's wedding. With the marriage no longer in existence the cloth's memory is tarnished, so it has been repurposed- it practically flaps away in the internal wind of the piece. Art Quilt Elements 2012 is on exhibit at the Wayne Art Center through May 13th, and is well worth the trip. Fiber Philadelphia isn't over yet!! This Friday, April 6th, several shows are opening in Old City, including "Strings and Things" at 3rd Street Gallery with Melissa Madonni Haims, and the 2nd part of "Stitch Witchery" with Melissa, myself, Rachel Udell, and the late Maggie Brosnan at the Painted Bride as part of Inliquid. Come out to First Friday from about 6-8 to see it in person! The following Friday, April 13th from 6-8 will be the reception for "Softer Edges" at the Works on Paper building at Fleisher Art Memorial. Hope to see you there!
Learn six different ways to cut up a 10" quilt fabric square to use it for quilting or sewing. From NewQuilters.com. #layercakequilts #precutfabricguide #fabricsquaresideas #fabricsquares
Storm at Sea is a pattern that uses small changes in straight angles to create an optical illusion of rounded shapes. Here are some gorgeou...
I will be the first to admit that technically speaking, I am not a quilter, I am a piecer. I love selecting the fabrics for a quilt and putting together
This no mark stitch & flip technique is quick, easy, and sew-fun! It will save you tons of time on your quilting journey — we guarantee it!
This no mark stitch & flip technique is quick, easy, and sew-fun! It will save you tons of time on your quilting journey — we guarantee it!
In my less-than-perfect world, I often have less-than-perfect quilt blocks. Learn how to square up a quilt block easily for your patchwork quilts too.
Quilt as you go tutorials QAYG and patterns including video on making QAYG quilts. Learn with these fun 26 different quilt as you go tutorials.
I'm so excited to share these quilts with you. I had the pleasure of quilting these for Julie Herman of Jaybird Quilts for her new pattern release at International Quilt Market. This first quilt is
This tutorial is for making tumbling blocks using strips sewn together – no Y seams. This technique, developed in 1987 by Marci Baker, is available in the book ABC 3-D Tumbling Blocks ……
Months ago I made my first block of Camille Roskelley’s Fireworks quilt pattern , then got busy with other things and most of the year flew by. Hoping to finish a few things before 2014 rolls around, I pulled the Bloomsbury Gardens fabrics back out and made a few more. I think this second block might be my favorite so [...]
For my regular blog readers, this tutorial is going to come a little from left field. This year, I have found myself in the position of teaching quilting classes. Now, I have made one or two quilts in my time, but I never even found out how proper quilters go about this whilst I was making them... so I have had to learn on the run. In my classes, we have been exploring quilt-as-you go techniques. I wanted to find a better way of joining the blocks together. I have read quite a few online tutorials, but they mostly seemed a little clumsy. So I came up with my own way (this is not to say that nobody else has done it this way...but I have not seen it done quite like this). Start with your two blocks to be joined. They should already be quilted to the wadding and backing. The backing should extend beyond your block about 1 inch (at least on one of the blocks). The quilting should stop before the edge, probably no closer than about an inch from the edge of the block. You can see that I have not washed out the marker I used to draw my quilting lines. Square and trim one of the blocks. On the first block, you want to trim the block, wadding and backing all to the same size. Here it is, all trimmed up. You can put this aside for the time being. On the other block, you need to fold the backing out of the way...which is why you can't quilt all the way to the edge of the block. Then square and trim the side of the block and the wadding. On that same block, we want to trim the wadding back further. We want the wadding to be trimmed 1/2 inch smaller than the block. (From this point on, you need to excuse my dirty fingernails...I got home from camping at lunch time and haven't cleaned them yet). This is a little tricky, and we don't want anyone to cut themselves with the rotary cutter. I used pattern weights to hold the top layer back whilst I cut the wadding. Now unfold the backing so that it can be trimmed. An experienced and precise quilter could probably trim the backing to 1/2 inch bigger than the block. My students are generally beginners and are still developing their sewing accuracy, and I like to allow a little for turn of cloth, so I trimmed to 5/8 inch larger than my block. So, here you can see the trimmed block. The wadding is 1/2 in smaller than the block and the backing extends 5/8 inch beyond the block. Now, for the ever-so-slightly tricky bit. Line up the edge of the backing with the edge of the wadding and stitch together with a 1/4 inch seam. I don't often use pins, but my students love to use them. If you like pins, you can pin to your heart's content before stitching. Some of the students are able to use their walking foot for this step. Others have a walking foot that is difficult to use for 1/4 inch seams, and so switch over to their 1/4 inch foot for this. It really depends on your machine and foot. If you can't use your walking foot, go slowly and use use good holding techniques to overcome the effects of the feed dogs. Once you have stitched the backing to the wadding, press the backing so that it forms a fold that sticks out past the wadding. Take your time to smooth the backing all the way from the stitching line. This is easier than trying to turn under an accurate seam allowance later. Now get your first block (the one we trimmed first and put aside). Put it right sides together with the second block. My blocks are random blocks, so I do not need to match any seams...but if you do, take care to match any seams on the two blocks at this point. The two blocks are then stitched together with a 1/4 inch seam. We are stitching through all 3 layers of the first block (top, wadding and backing) and the top layer of the second block...so through 4 layers altogether. Again, your choice as to whether you use a walking foot or 1/4 inch foot. You will need to hold the folded backing edge of the second block out of the way whilst you do this. All stitched together. Open out the blocks. Everything should sit nicely, with no lumpy overlap of wadding. Now you can press the folded backing of the second block over the join. There are several ways you can finish up from here. The neatest is probably hand stitching the fold down, the same way you would hand stitch the quilt binding. Another option is to machine quilt a straight line. If you do this from the back, the line is not likely to end up in the ditch on the front...but some of my students like to do this anyway. You could stitch in the ditch from the front, and because we allowed that extra 1/8 inch when trimming the second backing, it should, in theory, catch the fold at the back. Me, I like to finish quickly and get back to my dressmaking, so I used a decorative patchwork stitch from the front, which covers a few sins. Here is the back view. If you secure the backs before sewing the next block, you wont be able to stitch all the way to the end because you will need to be able to fold the backing back when trimming ready to attach the next block...no matter if you have...a few moments with a quick unpick will sort that out. Happy quilting, xx
I was at one of my local quilt shops yesterday and asked if they had the little sand paper dots for our rulers. She said no but that she had heard that there was a bandaid type tape called nexi . . . something that worked real well as it held the ruler good and tight and did not scratch the ruler. So, when I was at the grocery store I looked in the bandaid isle and found a tape by 3M called Nexcare. While in the package it did not look like it could hold a ruler up tight to the fabric without slipping and since it was $4.99, I was not too sure about purchasing it. Well, I did decide to get it and it is WONDERFUL!! And the roll will last like forever!! I also put it on my 24" ruler and it works great on that one too!! Plus, when it stops working I have plenty more!!
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