Subtitle: The Life-Changing Magic of Beautiful FabricOne aspect of sewing that all quilters deeply experience is the power of beautiful fabric. Beautiful fabric will make us quilters do crazy, irrational...partially erratic things – like convert a guest room into more fabric storage, even though you have lots of company and they would REALLY appreciate notContinue Reading...
Patterns Are Available in Three Sizes! Select a medium and a dark fabric to pop against white for a stunning star quilt. One half is essentially the reverse of the other for an eye catching and intriguing design. This quilt is all about values and color placement and will be stunning in your favorite colors. …
Learn how to make a diamond quilt without a lot of fuss and hard seams.
I spent over a year making a quilt for Chris. He requested the same colors as some of his jackets: So here are some of the fabrics I came up with: Not all of the fabrics made the cut (such as the …
Make your next red white and blue quilt with one of these patriotic quilt patterns. Includes free patterns and patterns to buy.
I spent over a year making a quilt for Chris. He requested the same colors as some of his jackets: So here are some of the fabrics I came up with: Not all of the fabrics made the cut (such as the …
Théâtre (7) - Ste Marie aux Mines
Simple tutorial for a patchwork red, white, and blue American Flag quilt.
** Update: For those that missed out on the issue of Quiltmaker Magazine, I'm excited to announce this pattern is now available for sale for instant download in my shop . ** I feel like I've been waiting ages to show you this quilt. Last July, Quiltmaker magazine asked me to create a quilt patt
Welcome to our FREE quilt patterns gallery. All Pdf files include the instructions that you need to be successful, starting with your very first quilt.
I spent over a year making a quilt for Chris. He requested the same colors as some of his jackets: So here are some of the fabrics I came up with: Not all of the fabrics made the cut (such as the …
I spent over a year making a quilt for Chris. He requested the same colors as some of his jackets: So here are some of the fabrics I came up with: Not all of the fabrics made the cut (such as the …
Artist Irene Roderick is one of those people whose kindness and warmth is unmistakable. And when I see Roderick’s work, I don’t think of quilts. Through blocks of color and lines, she does with fabric that which I can only imagine paint or pencil being able to do. Her improvisational methodology reminds me to remember […]
There are strip quilt patterns you can follow to easily use up all that scrap
Don’t you just love the softness and drape of worn denim? I think we all have a few favorite “go to” pairs of jeans we grab. And what about the ubiquitous “jean jacket.̶…
Today we are happy to be a part of Riley Blake Designs “Stitchin Kitchen” series. ***Beginning on the day we published this tutorial we have been asked to provide a complete, downloadable, printable pattern for this quilt tutorial….and we finally have created one! The PDF can be purchased HERE IN OUR SHOP for only $3.95.*** […]
Freezer paper piecing tutorial that saves time and doesn't require ripping out bits of paper for hours. Download a free guide to learn how.
You may have noticed I've been sort of absent on social media lately. When that happens, it usually means that I'm so wrapped up in a project that I just can't tear myself away. A couple of weeks ago I had a sudden need to make a quilt. My daughter sent me a heartbreaking message that a friend of hers (one of the first people she met when she started college) had been diagnosed with cancer and was anticipating chemotherapy after surgery. My daughter wondered whether I was up for making a quilt. I didn't need even a split second to answer that question and immediately went into overdrive to make it as quickly as possible. About three years ago I had made another suddenly-needed quilt for someone. That quilt was much smaller to be used with a wheelchair, but I remembered that it only took a few days to make. I decided to make that pattern--All in a Row by Leni Levenson Wiener from her book 3-Fabric Quilts. I liked the modern simplicity of the design. Here's what that quilt looked like: This quilt needed to be bigger--I thought roughly 60 inches square would work nicely. My daughter's only instruction was to make it pretty--cheerful. I spent a lot of time at a local fabric store taking pictures of fabric and consulting with my daughter by message (what did I ever do before I had a smartphone?!!) before settling on these two fabrics for the main part of the quilt: I'm not sure what drew me to these, but I thought they had kind of a folkloric vibe. And later while I was sewing, I discovered that the brighter fabric actually has ghost images of the circles in the lighter fabric. Do you see them? (Look above the butterfly.) And they are from two different designers and fabric companies. That decision was pretty easy, but I got stuck when picking the accent fabric for the squares. I thought I wanted some kind of orange print but never found exactly what I was looking for. I ended up buying several orange and reddish fabrics as well as some yellow and then tried out lots of variations. None of the arrangements of orange alone, yellow alone, or a combination of the two seemed right. Finally after lots of experimenting with my Quiltography app (LOVE that app) I decided to combine the yellow and orange into a bordered square. Before cutting fabric I "made" the block with my app. (The yellow here is not what I ended up with, but it was what I had in my "stash" on my app at the time.) I actually tried several widths of the border and laid them out as whole quilts on the app and then sent the various versions in a message to my daughter to see what she liked best. We settled on 2 1/2 inch yellow squares with 3/4 inch borders (finished). Did I say I LOVE this app? Oh, I did? Yes, I do. I could waste a lot of time just making virtual quilts. It took me a long time to settle on those squares, but once I did, sewing the quilt top was a snap. And then the back... I tried out several backs on my Quiltography app based on the amount of fabric I had left. I settled on the third one, with some added orange borders on the yellow strip. The scale of the fabrics isn't right, but it did help me choose how I wanted to make the back. Inspired by the luscious wavy quilting that Lorna over at Sew Fresh Quilts does, I tried my own wavy quilting. Well maybe I should call mine wobble quilting. I have a long way to go to master the smooth curves of the technique, but it was fun and added a wonderful puffy texture. I decided to do a matched binding--well not matched. Maybe reverse matched? Fun! I'm pretty sure I'll make this quilt again someday. I keep thinking of different ways to do the fabric combinations--but I would also like to try the wavy quilting in the same direction as the strips instead of across them. In fact, I had second thoughts about doing the lines crosswise when I was halfway done, but it would have been REALLY dumb to pick out what I had done and start over! Okay, how about some pictures? Of the real quilt. A lot of pictures. It was raining all day yesterday and now there are big puddles at the base of the fence I usually use for photo shoots. So my husband came to the rescue with his long arms and held up the quilt on the front porch. Today is delightfully sunny with almost no breeze!! Yippee! I also tried some photos in our crabapple tree sans leaves. Some breeze back there and dappled sunlight, but still fun. How about some close ups? Did you catch that reverse-matched binding? Super close-up. Do you see my initials and date in teeny tiny stitches? Oh, why not a few more? Here are the stats: Design: Variation of All In A Row by Leni Levenson Wiener Fabric: Faithfully Yours by Barb Tourtillotte for Clothworks; Roman Glass in Pastel by Kaffe Fassett for Free Spirit; Timeless Treasures of SoHo Studio C 3096 in Citrus (the yellow); Wild by Nature by Kathy Deggendorfer for Maywood Studio (orange). Plus two reddish orange fabrics that I don't have records of. Binding: Reverse matched to main fabrics on front. Cut 2 1/4 inches wide and folded for 3/8 inch width. Threads: Superior Masterpiece in Granite for piecing. Superior King Tut in Mint Julep for the quilting on the front and in Temple in the bobbin. (Same combination I used on the last quilt I made. I thought I would use up the Mint Julep, but it looks like there's enough for another quilt. Neverending thread cone!!) Superior Treasure Hand Quilting in Old Lace for the hand part of the binding. Batting: Hobbs Heirloom Premium 80/20 Bleached Cotton Size: 61 by 61 inches after piecing; 60 1/4 by 59 3/4 inches after quilting and binding; 58 inches square after machine washing on cold and drying on low. I pieced K's Quilt on my Singer Featherweight and quilted it with a walking foot on my Singer 115 treadle. With the two-colored squares, the quilt has lost the graphic punch of the original design, and maybe it's a little more traditional than folkloric, but I like it. I love the pretty prints and cheerful colors. One more picture of the yummy texture after washing: It was fun sharing this quilt with you. But I haven't lost site of the serious need to make it. K's Quilt will soon be on it's way to her with hopes that it will be a comforting hug during therapy and with prayers for healing. God knows she's been on my mind throughout this whole project. Because I made this quilt feverishly on the spur of the moment, I'm linking to mmm! quilts for the DrEAMi party, even though it's not the kind of DrEAMi project we should ever have to make. Isn't that the way it is so often with quilts that suddenly need to be made? I'm glad I could do it, though. I'm also linking up with Crazy Mom Quilts, Confessions of a Fabric Addict and Sew Fresh Quilts for their next weekly linky parties. .
I spent over a year making a quilt for Chris. He requested the same colors as some of his jackets: So here are some of the fabrics I came up with: Not all of the fabrics made the cut (such as the …
We had a great time at the Minnesota Quilt Show last week. We thought those of you who weren't able to attend would like to see the demo that we did. We showed a fun new template set from Creative Grid called the Scrap Crazy 6". The set contains 4 templates ,all with grippy backs like all the Creative Grid rulers and together they make a 6" Crazy Quilt block. A fun way to work from your stash! Here are our demo boards and the crazy quilt table runner that we made with Kaffe Fassett scraps But what really is fun are all the other blocks you can make by placement of fabric and orientation of your blocks. Look at the same block made with positioning colors. This 1st one is a Cut Loose pattern and also shown in the Scrap Crazy 6" book. The book offers more ideas for using the templates. The 2nd is the Peppermint Twist block. We also made some samples from the patterns in the book. The Sawmill table runner uses only the large trapezoid template. The Milky Way table runner uses only the 60 degree triangle. The Drops of Jelly table runner uses only the small trapezoid. We'll have our samples and demo boards on display at the shop, so come take a look. We made all of our samples from our scraps! Didn't put much of a dent in them, but we'll keep working on that! I think this is going to be fun! Happy Quilting, Susan
I never thought I would say this, but I love making black and white Color Grid quilts. I thought for sure I would miss all the other colors. The interesting thing for me is that I probably never wo…
Learn how to make a simple baby quilt with this Giant Star baby quilt pattern and tutorial. A modern baby quilt pattern great for beginners.
"Star Shuffle", featured in Quilts and More, Winter 2015 "A Perfect Setting", featured in American Patchwork & Quilting, December 2015 "Pressed Leaves", featured in McCall's Quilting, September/Oct 2015 "XOBaby!", featured in McCall's Quilting, March/April 2014 "Stamp of Approval", featured in American Patchwork & Quilting, April 2014 "On the Dot", featured in Fons&Porter's Love of Quilting September/October 2013 "Wacky Jack", featured in American Patchwork & Quilting, October 2013 "Carrie Nation Baby", featured in Fons & Porter's Scrap Quilts, Spring 2013 "Field of My Dreams", Moonlight Quilters 2012 Fabric Challenge "Kaffe's Garden at Night", featured in Fons & Porter's Scrap Quilts, Spring 2013 "Tickled Pink", featured in McCall's Quilting, July/August 2013 "Leaves in the Breeze", Piece O' Cake Designs, from Applique Outside the Lines "Let Them Eat Cake!", Moonlight Quilters 2011 Challenge "I-Spy for Cole", 2011? "Cow Jumped Over the Moon for Chase", 2012? "For Dad", American Jane design from Quilts for All Seasons Wish I could remember the name of this one! It's a Minnick and Simpson design. Collage quilt from a Judy Irish workshop in 2012 "Clamshells", Kaffe Fassett design from Museum Quilts "Shirt-Stripe Boxes for David", Kaffe Fassett design from Passionate Patchwork "Mom's Quilt", Sister's Quilt Show raffle quilt design 2008? "Chicken Pot Pie", Moonlight Quilters Challenge 2010? "Facet Diamonds", Kaffe Fassett design, Simple Shapes, Spectacular Quilts
How to make a disappearing pinwheel block Learn how to make this block in less than 2 minutes. Materials Two 9 3/8 inch squares in contrasting fabrics Block size The finished block is 10 1/4 inch s…
This is what is on my craft table today. I have gathered some of my favorite red and Aqua fabrics, to join in the fun over at Jane's blog ...
Instructions for a wonky alphabet, all improv.
