I have wanted to make a quilt from half rectangle triangles for a long time now! This book is from an exhibition back in 2016....
Quem continua animada e fazendo todos os desafios levanta a mão! o/ Agora vamos encarar mais um desafio, e vamos descobrir um mundo...
Hello! Below are some publications I’ve done over the years categorized by Books, Magazines, Podcasts and Featured In. Thanks for taking a look! Books: My newest book, Quilt As-You-Go Made Cl…
A Bonjour Quilts sewing tutorial for a diamond quilt block - make your own scrappy diamond quilt with this quilt block pattern tutorial.
Would you like to try a shooting star block? You can cut pieces with the serendipity die or we also have acrylic templates available on our website for purchase. Press your fabric and then cut them.I like cutting with the GO! cutter, it sure makes things go fast!Take your fabric “blade” in your hand. Make sure it is the right side up.Fold your “blade” in half with right sides of fabric together.Using a 1/4″ seam allowance, sew across the top of your “blade”.Next you will trim the inside tip of
I imagine it's time to get back to pinning. Question: was I on a herringbone/chevron thing before the computer crash? Well, whatever happened, it was hefty because there are easily 15 chevron quilts in one small section of my "heart, quilts" board. Aren't they pretty? Also on the board are lots of easy scrap quilts. Something we all need if we're ever going to get those scrap bins under control, am I right? Here are a few:
Hi Everyone I have just made a short video on how I made my little house quilt and posted it on my Facebook page. It is also on my website. Please comment. I appreciate your feedback. Here are some more...
Top US quilting blog, Diary of a Quilter, features 30 Favorite Charm Square Quilts and Projects: bags, table runners and large quilts. Click here now!!
A Bonjour Quilts sewing tutorial for a diamond quilt block - make your own scrappy diamond quilt with this quilt block pattern tutorial.
This probably has another name as many quilt patterns do. It's wonderful how they survive through the centuries! To download the chain of diamonds pattern to yo
Scary version of a sampler without any sashing or alternate blocks to break it up.
Have you ever made a “One Block Wonder”? To make one you place 6 layers of the same fabric on top of each other lining up the patterns exactly, and then cut them into triangles then sew each group…
This is Ulrike’s stunning New York Beauty quilt and she said it took her 10 years to complete this top! It is made with all batik fabrics and batik backing. The blocks and border were all paper pieced and I love the blocks put on an angle creating stars in the sashing. The whole quilt is stitched in the ditch which took the most work and then I rolled it back and added the quilting designs. I did the same feather in the outer curve in all the blocks, added pebbles to some of the arcs and loops to others. It took me a while to figure out what to quilt in the sashing but finally came up with the petal curl design the fit in the space nicely. I have lots of pictures to share! The batting is Quilters Dream Blend and the threads are So Fine. When I posted a picture of the quilt top last week I had a lot of questions about stitch in the ditch and what threads so here is what I used. So Fine #456 is the magic gray green that I used on all the blocks, it blended very well with all the colors. I matched thread with the two purples in the sashing for that design element as I wanted the thread to blend in on the sashing. I also used a light beige for SID around the outer border spikes. When I stitch in the ditch I don’t always stitch in the ditch side. Depending on the thread I’m using and the final look I’m going for I sometimes will stitch on the high side of the ditch to keep the thread in the same color fabric as the thread. I did this in the outer border in the light beige fabrics as I wanted the colour spikes to really pop! But in the blocks themselves I just stitched on the low side of the ditch as I was quilting across so many colors it didn’t matter what color of fabric I was stitching in. Here is a better look at the thread I used. There were a few spots on the blocks where I switched to the light beige thread as the blocks had a very light background. And in these blocks I stitch on the high and low side so I stayed in the light fabric like I did in the outer border. So for me there is no hard fast rule about stitching in the ditch, I do what looks right to my eye. Also in this next picture you can see where I strayed from the side I was on and stitched in the darker colour, this happens and I don’t panic about it because when you look at the quilt as a whole you never see that! There were only a few times on this quilt where I was not happy with my stitching and picked out a line or two. So don’t stress too much when your stitching in the ditch, just take your time and don’t be over critical of it.
Hello fellow Gypsies (and everyone following along)! It’s time to finish our sampler quilt journey. I’ve really enjoyed cohosting the 2019 Gypsy Wife Quilt-Along with @ScrappyViolet . It’s a quilt I’ve wanted to make for a long time.
Grandma's Garden by Michele Knight Posey Patch by Margo Ward Springtime Blessings by Trudy Shipp I particularly loved this bunny. Sprigs and Twigs by Jeannette Martin A Kim Diehl design Home Comfort by Marilyn Cowan. Houses with quilt blocks.....I'm sorry but I did not get the name of the creator of this beautiful quilt. Pin Wheels by Gertrude Muecke The raffle quilt made by the quilt group. In the Meadow we can Build a Snowman by Pam Pierce. She asked to pose for a picture since I am the designer of this pattern. This is just a tiny taste, there will be more goodness tomorrow. I was asked to recommend a good basic quilt book. I love The Art of Classic Quilt Making by Harriet Hargrave and Sharyn Craig. It is a go to book for information and inspiration. I especially admire and adhere to the advise given under the heading....Why Quilters Have to Collect Fabric. "Quilters are constantly telling us that if they buy one more yard of fabric, their spouses will go off the deep end. As a result they are always trying to justify their fabric purchases. We believe that we need to reassess our thinking and give ourselves permission to be involved in an art that requires working materials. A fabric collection is no different than a stamp collection or a collection of fishing tackle." And, you can take that to be absolutely the truth and very well presented....don't you think? Makes perfect sense to me! :-) "Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success." Swami Sirananda
Many of you who are doing the Dreamcatcher Round the Year Block of the Month Quilt got your fabric a bit late and there are still others who are beginners to paper piecing. I thought it would be a …
Oh my goodness, guys, we’ve made it!! We’re at the final block of the Modern HST Sampler!! This has been an incredible year, I’ve been so privileged to be a part of seeing you all grow in your skills. Thank you for coming along for the ride! If this is the first time you’re reading this, […]
A few months ago I got a message from Kitty Wilkin of Night Quilter asking if I’d be interested in testing a new English paper piecing pattern she was working on in cooperation with Karen Tri…
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Olá! Mais um bloco prá coleção, este se chama Sunflower ou Girassol. Lindão né! Na foto do meio está o PAP dele, parece grego, mas é assim mesmo :) Todos os tecidos são Círculo SA. Beijokas da Iza :***
Le salon de Nantes était une vraie réussite, avec de nombreuses expositions très variées (et plus de moderne que les années précédentes, ce qui me ravit). L’occasion pour moi de retrouver Pamela Goecke Dinndorf, que j’avais rencontrée à Houston en novembre. Elle présentait à Nantes son premier livre avec Quiltmania, Parallel Lines, un livre autour … Continuer la lecture de L’artiste du vendredi : Pamela Goecke Dinndorf →
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Quilting tips, tutorials, and downloads – plus loads of photographs – all to help you sew beautiful modern quilts, even if you're a beginner!
Top US quilting blog, Diary of a Quilter, features a couple of Easy DIY Star Baby Quilt Tutorials, great for beginners. Click here for the info!!
Welcome to Stitchin Heaven’s Journeys Month 6 – Corner Section. My helper for Month 6 is Sue Tucker, of Studio 180 Design. This month you are going to learn to make the Square/…
I've not been here to do much sewing this week, in fact I'm not here at all..................... Spooky! But no, the wonders of modern technology has allowed me to schedule this post so I'm writing this before I go away. Want to see my next Gypsy block? Sorry, no choice, you are getting it anyway, this is it, the name is Star Block, pretty boring name isn't it? Especially after Crazy Anne and oh I must tell you, it seems I have been calling one block by the wrong name. The second block I introduced as Perishing is actually Pershing. Just to set the record straight. Back to Star Block, no it's not as bright and colourful as some of the others, but I think it will add more contrast. If all the blocks end up super bright the quilt will be overpowering with little balance, so I am adding some cooler and darker shades. That's how I'm thinking anyway. This is the updated pic to illustrate what I mean. I have looked at so many Gypsy versions, and each one is wonderful and unique, some are monotone, some are completely saturated with colour, some have multicoloured strips and some have neutral strips to show off the blocks more, such as two tone creams, or black and white, such variety. Mine will have multicoloured strips, like the original pattern, so it will live up to the original design. If all those strips were bright you would need sunglasses to look at it, that's why I'm adding the cooler and neutral shades. I did get a little more quilting done on circles before I got away, I got nearly half the quilting done in the coloured circles. I had a big think about it first, hang on I'll show you.......... Now you can see, circles, or pebbles as they are known. Pebbles best describe mine too as they are not all circular, AND they overlap quite a bit, far from perfect in fact. Do I care? Not on your nellie, I decided to do pebbles as my control needs a lot of improvement yet and I still struggle with manipulating a larger quilt (ok not that large but it is for me). If I had tried to do something fancy like orange peels, which would have been perfect, it would have been disastrous, so I chose pebbles and if you stand back and screw your eyes up they look great, so I'm happy. I had a variegated thread so I'm using that, hope I don't run out, I've had it for ages, but it's a King Tut so I'm hoping it will still be available if I need it. Fingers crossed. Thinking of Gypsy recently I also started thinking of the quilting, some quilters machine quilt and some hand quilt, that got me thinking of the baby quilt I made for my youngest granddaughter Emily. It was just a panel with borders but it matched the theme of her bedroom. This is the only pic I have as I forgot to take one before I gave it to her Mum and I pinched this from Facebook. Yes, her bedroom has a jungle theme. I had bought this panel years beforehand and some yardage of the matching print too. I think I should have added a border between the flowers and the small print in hindsight (which is as always a wonderful thing), but I didn't and it can't be changed now. I had to juggle the yardage as I had a limited amount but I did have enough to make it all face the same way, don't ask me why I decided to do it like that I can't remember. I added cornerstones in orange, which I also used for the binding. As a point of interest I have been using some of the leftover orange scraps recently to make the noses on my snowman cushions. Waste not want not. Unfortunately when I zoomed in the quality wasn't good enough to allow you to see the hand quilting, so I will just have to tell you about it. I hand stitched around all the animals and some of the detail on them as well as some of the leaves, butterflies, rainbow etc.. I even quilted around the small animals in the border. It took me ages, good job I started early. Emily now uses it in the camper van, she is going on five so the design is still fine for now. However I believe there are plans afoot to turn her bedroom from a jungle into a bedroom fit for a little girl, so a new quilt may be in the offing before long. If you have left a comment since Saturday I won't have read it or answered it yet, as I said last week I don't have wifi, a phone signal, or tv this week. I have taken a little hand sewing, though not much, and a couple of books too, these are they, World Without End and Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett. I have read them before but I don't have copies so I treat myself as I won't be spending anything much at all when I'm away. I didn't mind buying these as I know I will reread them in the future, also after many years a third book will make them a trilogy next month and I have had it on preorder for ages so this is the right time to read them again. I don't think I will get them both finished in time though, these take some reading. It's the kind of books I like, no three to four hundred pages for me, there just isn't enough words for a good complicated story to develop. So, that's all for today, no linking up, unless you are reading through Mean Queen, she has my blog on her sidebar. If you haven't read it take a look, she is indeed the queen of frugal living in the UK. The posts vary a lot, sometimes she just shows some pics, other times she talks about her crafting, sometimes she talks about how she has been saving money or her opinions of life, and some of the posts can stir up a real hornets nest. Do make sure you read the poem on the sidebar one of the readers wrote, it sums her up brilliantly. It's a great blog, but don't just judge it on one post, have a good look around while you are there. There is also a monthly update on the quest to walk a thousand miles a year and lots of people add their totals in the comments. Do you know it's not as difficult as you think? All you have to do is about three miles a day. Amazing, I never thought of it like that. See you again next week and I will tell you where I have been and what I have been doing, but don't hold your breath, it won't be THAT exciting. With smiles from, Kate x
The Haphazard Quilt – A scrapbusting project
Learn how to make this simple and versatile star quilt block. Tutorial from NewQuilters.com. #friendshipstarquiltblock, #quiltblocks, #piecingquiltblocks
Learn how to make this simple and versatile star quilt block. Tutorial from NewQuilters.com. #friendshipstarquiltblock, #quiltblocks, #piecingquiltblocks
Things for those with a country heart and a creative spirit.
I cut all my scraps into 1’ strips which resulted in way too many nine patches.
From a Quilt Designed by SANDRA CLEMONS Skill Level CONFIDENT BEGINNER Finished Block Size12 x 12 Free Quilt Block Download Download the FREE Double
