To continue with the Folk Art Quilt... thanks for waiting for part two. Three different ways to create the prairie point are shown in this book. Prairie Points – 3 ways: single-fold (218); double-fold (p219); continuous prairie points (p163) Construction of the Continuous Prairie Point: The next step was to work on the prairie points that are going around the edge of the quilt. I had not seen continuous prairie points before, nor had I made them. If I remember correctly, the strip was 4" wide, and then pressed in half to mark a center line from which to create each fold of the prairie points. Then cuts were made every two inches on both sides of the center line, alternating along the whole length of the fabric strip. Pressing a Fold-line Cut to the Pressed Line Then each cut square was folded once towards the centerline and pressed, as shown on the left below. The second step was to go back and fold each triangle shape to create another triangle, shown on the right side of the photo below. Once all the triangles were folded, all the points facing downwards were folded up to create the finished prairie point. These I pinnned and then basted along the cut edge. They were set aside. Folding the Prairie Points in Two Steps Basted Prairie Points Strip Before stitching the prairie points onto the edge, several things needed to be done first. Stacking the layers of the quilt top, batting, and backing together, to do the quilting. Shown below are the center of the quilt, and the applique elements. I stitched around the star design to quilt through all the layers. Then added a shadow stitch around the complete design. Quilting the Layers Quilting All Around the Outside of the Design Still having a square-shaped quilt, it was ready to mark the cutting line. I placed the pattern piece back onto the quilt and marked the edge with a pen. When completely marked, I stitched inside these marks about a quarter of an inch, and then cut on the dotted line, marked in pen. Marking the Cutting Line Stitching 1/4" Inside the Marked Line Attaching the Prairie Points Closeup of Binding I enjoyed making this quilt. It has lots of variety; especially, with the applique techniques, involved. And this quilt makes a delightful centerpiece, if one has a place to display it. I have done lots of square-shaped quilts on this challenge; however, it is my first round one. My Finished Project Size: 20" diameter This concludes my 2010 quilt technique challenge. I will try to complete the final quarter review within the next month. Enjoy the holiday season....
INVENTORY REDUCTION - Kristin's Easy Baptist Fan PAPER longarm quilting pantograph design by Kristin Hoftyzer More Details A single row is 5.5 inches wide - printed with one row - 144 inches long. Click here to go to our main Panto Directory Page. Click here to see more items of interest to machine quilters. Don't know what a "panto" is? Click here to find out what the heck a "panto" is.
The main thing I want to make in 2015 is quilts - lots of quilts. I've started the year right with our national Quilt Symposium that's bee...
This is Marg’s Sampler quilt which was a guild project from 2005 and I have quilted many of these quilts over the years. Marg asked for light custom quilting to highlight the piecing. I tried a double line piano key border which I really like to quilt as your mainly traveling in the outer edge and not in the inner border seam like with normal piano keys. Free hand curls in the sashing and lots of CC’s, loops and curls in the blocks. Quilters Dream Blend batting and So Fine thread.
Fun = Quilting with Rulers Wow, the Westalee Design continuous border templates are so much fun to quilt! They are fast and easy. Frankly, there are some templates that I have a love hate relationshi
I thought some of you might like to try my log cabin quilting pattern. It's a continuous line pattern that saves a lot of stop start sewing....
Free motion quilting with rulers on domestic sewing machine. Week 3 in a series.
100% Cotton Print Hometown Collection by Norwegian designer Tone Finnanger. Hometown is a cozy collection inspired by the love of home and community. Drawings on neighborhoods, houses, gardens, and gatherings in autumn colors are perfect for your homey quilts and projects. The collection has a mix of patterns brought together by a sprinkled look that will make them seem to interlace in a patchwork. Accompanied by 6 My Neighborhood blenders. 100% cotton fabric Measurements available: Fat Quarter = 18” x 22” ½ Yard = 18” x 44” Yard = 36” x 44” Binding Option = 10) 2.5” x wof strips Our fabrics are torn to ensure cut on the grain of fabric. Multiple orders are cut as one piece. We love fabric as much as you do! Thank you for supporting our small business.
Continuous bias binding- learn how to prepare yards and yards of bias binding with only two seams.
I have developed a love for Baptist Fans in my all over quilting. I love using the pattern on traditional quilts, and there is something comforting in the curve of the lines when I use Baptist Fans…
Riley Blake Designs Confetti Cottons solid fabric is a premium quilting cotton perfect quilting, crafting, or home fashions. Color: Riley Black.
I think we can all agree that as quilters we have this deeply implanted love of creating and being creative, and that creativity doesn’t just stop at piecing a quilt top. Doing the actu…
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I'm so far behind, it's a bit hard to know where to start. So I'm starting with the easiest thing, which is the quilting I've been doing this evening. I offered to quilt my friend Joy's lovely quilt for her daughter, and have been busy with it this week. I've used a lovely pink champagne coloured Bottom Line thread top and bottom throughout. It blends nicely with the beautiful colour-scheme of white, cream, chocolate and soft reds of the pieced blocks, and shows up just enough for the butterflies on the solid cream. The blocks in the centre were given an all-over treatment of open feathers, but Joy had mentioned she'd like some butterflies if possible, so the plain inner border has butterflies. I recalled this concept of swirling into and out of the butterfly from a pantograph I saw once, and adapted it for my purpose. Then I marked it on a piece of cardboard and cut out sections as needed, so I could transfer enough of a guideline to the fabric with an air-erasable marker. The marks left me with a continuous design around the border, and I fudged the spacing a little so that each corner is the same. Although I didn't mark the actual loops between butterflies (too fiddly to bother cutting the template!) I did mark the lines into and out of them. The extra cut-out was just an easy way to make space to cut the actual lines I wanted.
"Edged in Black" by Audrey Arno, 7" x 7" Hello from a long-absent quilter! It is autumn in Wisconsin, Oliver is sleeping near me, now 12 and sweeter than ever. I admit to being a bit surprised that this blog is still online, gosh. Alas these past few years I have not been able to quilt due to a variety of "perfect storm" events, but this past summer I have been sorting through so many saved fabrics, books, quilts, magazines, letters, ribbons, business cards, oh my....several rooms of things to go through, air out, read, save or discard. I've found many interesting items I had forgotten about, articles or photos I liked and then realized they were mine (ha!), and ended up thinking it might be a good thing to start blogging and share few of my thoughts and photos again. They reminded me of friends, quilters, so many experiences over the years, like vintage fabrics that are re-discovered and more beautiful than ever. I’ll begin with the little quilt, above, rolled up in a packet of small treasures I had put away for safekeeping and forgotten. “Edged in Black” by Audrey Arno from Tulsa, OK, was from a collection of "little" quilts made for sale to support Ami Simms' Alzheimers project, raising money for research. They were displayed and sold at one of the big quilt shows I attended and this one spoke to me, a wonderful mélange of vintage fabrics, beautifully designed and pieced. When I held this quilt yesterday the idea that sprang to mind was to make small projects with some of your fabrics you have saved or put aside because they are so special. Don’t simply store fabric, instead make something small and easily completed, and enjoy it, donate it, gift it to another quilter who would love it. It needn’t use vintage fabrics although some of my very first new fabric purchases are probably now old enough to be classified as antique….! It can be from your special collections of batiks, or hand dyed, or conversational prints, blue and white fabrics, whatever. Someone would love it and a small piece can be framed for display or added to a small area in a house. Recently I watched a news story about the container ships backed up and no merchandise to buy for Christmas, oh no. What happened to making something from what you already have? Or doing something special for someone? Or give a day helping a relative with things to do around the house? We don’t need any more things in the house, but of course a small handmade gift would be welcomed with happy delight. Below are photos of just that, a small quilt pieced from an old very worn tied quilt that my mother’s grandmother had made from fabrics in the early 1900’s. My mother made a label so it is documented nicely, and I treasure this little quilt especially since my mother has been gone now for some years. The quilt is about 16" square, the blocks each 2 1/2" finished, and it is hand quilted. The border fabric was new. On the simple label below it is documented, so nice for any piece you make. I loved this in 1989 but it is more precious to me now. It has been lovely sharing some thoughts with you today; see you next time! .......Diane
9 1/2in x 26Adhesive backed patterns for continuous machine quilting. Requires a darning foot or free-motion foot. Great learning tool for beginning quilters and eliminates the stress of thinking about which direction to quilt next to crossing over or working into a corner. Great allover pattern.
Continuous Baptist Fans PAPER pantograph quilting pattern by Hermione Agee More Details Continuous Baptist Fans PAPER pantograph quilting pattern by Hermione Agee. A single row is 5” wide – printed with one row – 144” long. Click here to go to our main Panto Directory Page. Click here to see more items of interest to machine quilters. Don't know what a "panto" is? Click here to find out what the heck a "panto" is.
Guinea Flower in Cobalt GP59 - Kaffe Fassett Collective for Free Spirit Fabrics - Fabric By the Yard 100% Premium Cotton Fabric by the Yard Quilting Fabric, Apparel Fabric Beautiful Bold Floral with Vibrant Color and Detail 44/45" wide Additional photos are for inspiration. Fabric sold by the yard, choose quantity desired in the drop down box provided and add to your shopping cart. Multiple yard purchases will be cut continuous. We carry lots of other colorful and bold fabrics by Kaffe Fassett Collective: http://www.etsy.com/shop/MoonaFabrics/search?search_query=kaffe Moona Fabrics homepage: www.etsy.com/shop/moonafabrics
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Hello freemotion quilting friends! It is time for the second post on the Wishbone and Ribbon Candy pattern variations. Before I give you some more basic options, let’s look at the big differe…
This is a sampling of customer quilts: Ann's quilt for her son Ann's Birds of a Feather quilt Ruth's Thimbleberries Sampler Karen's Appliqued log cabin Pam's Double Wedding Ring Mary's Queen and her Court quilt LaVerna's Christmas quilt Renee's Silk Tie quilt Another of LaVerna's quilts Ann's scrappy quilt Ethel's appliqued baskets Mary's Hop to It quilt Mary's Mariner's Compass Ann's Basket quilt Barb's Heirloom Applique quilt Eddie's geometric quilt Patty's Stars in the Garden quilt Ann's Eventide quilt Lori's indigo quilt June's Civil War quilt Susan's Scotties quilt Sylvia's Vintage Tea Towel quilt Merilyn's Shop Sample Another of Ann's scrappy quilts Evelyn's wedding quilt for her Grandaughter Karen's Ezekiel's Wheel Mary's Joy of Life Opportunity Quilt for Emma Creek Quilt Guild - 2011 Opportunity Quilt for Prairie Quilt Guild - 2010
Lei - Pantograph / E2E © 2012 Nancy Read PAPER: A single row is 6.75 inches - printed with two rows - 144 inches long DIGITAL (computerized quilting systems): Zip file includes: BQM, CQP, DXF, HQF, IQP, PAT, QLI, SSD, TXT, WMF and 4QB or PLT. Most designs also include a DWG, GPF, PDF, PNG and SVG. SELF-PRINT: A single row is 6.25 inches - printed with one row.
100% Cotton. 45" wide. SKU – PE-425
Sahiko is a popular hand-embroidery technique that originated in Japan. Learn how to do the Sashiko technique by machine
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From Miss Make: LOOPER is a unique quilt pattern with modular blocks, meaning they can be rearranged in any direction to create a continuous design. Follow the baby, throw, and queen layouts provided, or get creative and come up with your own version. Either way, the Looper Quilt is fast, fun, and addictive. Finished size: Baby - 40" x 40" Throw - 60" x 60" Queen - 100" x 100"
