In this tutorial, I will show you how to add facing to your quilt as an excellent way to finish! Don't forget to watch the video tutorial too!

Close up of the face

These instructions are for a 4" x 5" finished basic cat block. The process of making this block, notably the diagonal seams used to make the ears and the chin, is also used in the 25 different Catvent Quilt-Along blocks.

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It's been on my mind for a while now to create more tiny animal plushie. If you love my first pattern, this one won't disappoint. It's got more steps but all in all it's very beginner friendly. Tiny sewing is so quick and fun, you'll want to make many of these.So meet Stan the frog, Stella the pig and Sophie the bird. They've been designed to be easy to sew regardless of your level and skills. It's an excellent pattern to start your journey in the world of toy sewing. Quick to sew, it can give you confidence in your abilities and when finished, your new friend's little face will make you smile. A gift for people of all ages, Stan, Stella and Sophie enjoy being with people, going out and sleeping warmly. They know how to cheer up or give courage to those who need it. So don't wait any longer, it's time to sew a tiny plush. Watch video instructions here. The level of difficulty is easy, adequate for meticulous beginners. This pattern can be sewn by hand or by machine. Choose an easy-to-handle fabric like a quilting cotton, or be brave and try a fluffy fabric as a challenge. Above all, have fun, sew with intention and joy.Instant download, once you complete your purchase you will have access to the pattern and can start your project immediately.

As promised in my last post, here is a tutorial on how I like to face a quilt. Facing a quilt is a way to bind your quilt without havin...

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Frog Lady is the last of this series of faces in fabric. She came about because my friend Erin wanted to come over and make a face with me. I went through each step with her until we got to the hair and she had to go. It was a fun afternoon!

Use your sewing machine to appliqué fabric and add a clean finish to edges at the same time, it's easy with these tips and techniques.

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When I was in Houston in 2016 my special exhibit was right across the aisle from the beautiful Millefiori exhibit with all the beautiful English paper pieced quilts inspired by Willyne Hammerstein and I became fascinated with English paper piecing. I did a few pieces out of fancy silks but then I began to wonder how

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Most Featured Artists display amazing quilts at the shows. When I read that this year's artist was displaying fabric sculptures I was a little disappointed...I'm not much into "modern art" as I'm such a traditional quilter. When Annie and I visited Susan Else' booth we were both completely blown away as were the multitudes of other quilters who were gathered there. Susan uses collaged and quilted fabrics to create unusual fabric sculptures...they are breathtaking. She even had a working ferris wheel with different people in each seat...a rowboat with family members being rowed about...and even a loving pair of skeletons... I'll let the skeletons speak for themselves! If you EVER get the chance to see one of her exhibits don't miss it! Cindy :)

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Learn how to face a quilt with this step-by-step tutorial with photos. This technique reduces bulk in the corners and facings lay flat.

We shot Quilting Arts TV Series 2200 at KS Productions’ studio in Solon, Ohio, last month. The 13 episodes in this series will be released to participating Public TV stations in late July, and will also be available on DVD and digital download through The Quilting Company then. Series 2200 guests are: Lesley Riley Sandra Bruce Luana Rubin Susan Brubaker Knapp Vivika Hansen DeNegre Susan Shie Jill Jensen Maria Shell Laurie Ceesay Mary McCauley Heidi Proffety * Maggie Vanderweit* Cindy Grisdela* MJ Kinman* *these guests shot segments in September that appear in both Series 2100 and 2200. Here’s a sneak peek at all the creative goodness coming your way soon: Laurie Ceesay/www.laurieceesay.com Pop art portrait quilts Discount store embellishments Creating realistic hair in a portrait quilt Jane Davila/www.janedavila.com Using sprays and stencils on alternative surfaces Bohemian embellishments – tassels and pom moms Bespoke edge finishes for quilts and pillows Vivika Hansen DeNegre/Editor of Quilting Arts magazine Overprinting on fabric Matting special improvisational blocks Attaching embellishments with embroidery Quilts and prayer flags with a message Sandra Bruce/www.sandrabruce.com “Material Matrix” – Pixelated quilts Stitching words Bindings that match the inside of the quilt Jill Jensen/www.jilljensenart.com Linoleum block carving and printing Free-motion quilting to enhance imagery in art quilts Weekly quilt project Lesley Riley/www.LesleyRiley.com Eco-printing Wet-cyan printing Beyond the print – how to turn your eco and wet-cyan prints into unique works of nature inspired art with photo manipulation. (Shot for Series 2300) Mary McCauley/www.maryhmmccauley.com 3-D Quilted vessels (Shot for Series 2300) Greeting card pop-up Gift box Luana Rubin/www.eQuilter.com Trends from the Tokyo Quilt Show Quilts with a message Maria Shell/www.mariashell.com Improvisational piecing (shot for Series 2300) Blow it up! Sewing machine features you need Susan “Lucky” Shie/www.turtlemoon.com Journey of the artist Sketchbooks and drawing Susan Brubaker Knapp/www.bluemoonriver.com Simplified soy wax batik Succulent pin cushion Free-motion starts and stops Improving free-motion quilting: practice on panels Many thanks to our Quilting Arts TV Series 2200 sponsors: BERNINA of America, LLC Wooly Felted Wonders Marabu eQuilter.com Dharma Trading Co.

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I was lucky enough to take a class from the famous artist/quilter, Freddy Moran, Saturday in Sacramento. I invited my friend Natalie to go with me, and that made the day even better :) This is the house that Freddy built :) She doesn't measure, at least hardly ever, and she doesn't consider herself a sewer either. Here's my freehand house on the left, along with one of my trees on the right. Freddy says that if something doesn't fit, add some more fabric to make it fit, and the extra fabric also adds some interest. Freddy and me:) Freddy has a degree in Fine Arts, raised a family of 5 boys (6 if you count her husband), and she says she was very successful at that because they are all grown up and all have jobs, lol! Freddy started her career with textile arts when she was 60, she's 80 something now. Here's my little house and a wonky star and a tree that I made in class Saturday. This is one of my favorite quilts of Freddy's. The buildings come off the sides, and it isn't bound. Freddy creates a background, often from flannel, because fabric sticks really well to it. She then creates her masterpiece by laying fabric on top and gluing them on with a purple glue stick that dries clear. She takes the finished quilt to the quilter (that hasn't been sewn or appliqued) and she tells Carol, "if any piece falls off, just stick it back on where you think it looks good!" This is a close up of one of her small quilts. The background is sewn together, and she cuts fabric or images on fabric (flowers) and glues them onto the background. Freddy loves the living dead too, hence the skulls. Freddy said that she has never bought a piece of muslin and never will. She takes great care in producing pretty backs for her quilts. Alexander Henry fabrics are very beautiful and interesting, and Berkeley, California, has a Crate and Barrel outlet where they sell Marimekko fabric for $5.95 / yard. Freddy buys a lot of her backs there. Another favorite of mine is this cow quilt! Freddy has lots of "parts". That's fabric that she she has cut into shapes, she has them in containers separated by color. She grabs those "parts" and places them until she likes the arrangement, then glues them down and lets her Carol, her quilter, machine quilt them in place. Did you notice that the cow's tail is three dimensional? This is the bag of the cow quilt. This is a close up of the machine quilting, where you can imagine the pieces being attached to the flannel background, by machine quilting. During the day, we had our sewing class, and in the evening, we had a talk and trunk show by Freddy. It was great! Notice the stack of quilts? I didn't count, but there were 30 or more. Freddy said that she collaborates with her friend Gwen Marston. Together, they make about 30 quilts a year, not including the machine quilting. Freddy and Gwen can make a quilt a day, with their combined creative genius!!! Freddy's "parts department" also includes little blocks that have been put together, otherwise known as orphan blocks. She uses the parts for her quilts. Another favorite quilt of mine that she made is called "Parts Department". It's a kaleidoscope quilt with lots of little girls holding hands, pinwheels and much much more. It's really cute! (I couldn't find a photo of it) Freddy told us that she takes all her fabric out and refolds it every 3 months, so that she knows what she has. What a great idea!!! Here are my little blocks that I sped through! The wonkier the better, it adds a lot of interest. You don't trim until you figure out if you want your quilt to have horizontal or vertical rows, or if you are going to make a kaleidoscope quilt. Freddy loved this background fabric! I think this block is too matchy matchy, but if I put it with crazy, wonky blocks, it will add interest. Isn't this the cutest photo? I took it off the internet, it looks like a self portrait. Freddy's vests that she often wears are made by an artist in Berkeley, and are made from quilts. The biggest thing I learned from Freddy, is don't be hard on yourself, or critical about your work. Never show anyone your quilting mistakes, they will never notice them anyway. Be crazy and try new things in quilting. You don't have to follow everyone else's rules, make your own. I am still talking about quilting, lol! This quilt is called "Little House in the Big Woods". Do you see the little house in there? This is the quilt that Freddy built, and I am going to make my own version of it.....someday..... Freddy signed my book, and do you know what she wrote? "Red is a neutral."

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I don't know why, but it always seems that "blog time" comes around the corner so fast each month that it takes me by surprise. I sweat over what to put in my blog... and this month I started sweating early because most of what I've been working on is not "photo ready." I've been doing lots of paperwork and pattern-writing... nothing that I can take a picture of! This month, I've decided to share a bunch of hexagon quilts with you . It seems that hexagons started showing up in only the last year or two. I went back and looked at all my Houston quilt show pictures -- there were lots of hexagons last year, only a couple the year before, and I only found one picture from 2011. Where did all these hexagons come from? Well... it's not as if they didn't exist until a year or two ago. Take a look... The quilt below was part of the French Legendary Quilts exhibit at the International Quilters Association (IQA) show in Houston last year. These quilts are totally hand-made (no machine work at all!) and are replicas of antique quilts. This quilt, Mosaic quilt, was made by Isabelle Etienne-Bugnot of Soisy-sur-Seine, France. It is based on a circa 1840 quilt in the DAR Museum in Washington, D.C. (note: please excuse the plastic band in front of the quilt at the bottom of the picture... sometimes I can't avoid those in my picture-taking...). I love the quilt above with its diamonds made of hexagons... though I must admit that hexagons are NOT my unit of choice. In fact, there were SO many hexagons in the quilt show and in the vendors' booths last year that everytime I saw one, I started humming Taylor Swift's "I.....i....iii....i... will never, ever, ever.... (and I changed the lyrics).... make a hexagon"! Really - hexagons were everywhere I looked!!! Here's another one at the show last year: Honeycomb (Rayon de miel) by Liliane Verger of Royan, France. Liliane's quilt was inspired by an English quilt made in the 1840s. This quilt offers hexagon diamonds and hexagon stars. The outer edge of the quilt offers a unique way of handling those persnickety hexagons, too. Here's a closeup of Liliane's blocks. She used the English paper piecing method - is there any other way? In this method, fabric is stitched around a hexagonal template, then the hexagons are sewn together and the template paper is removed. Hexagonal Star, below, was made by Renee Elie of Royan, France. Here are the stars... and no hexagon diamonds. Instead, Renee has hexagon flowers -- a common use for hexagons. This quilt was inspired by an 1830 quilt. With almost 10,000 three-quarter inch hexagons, I can only imagine how long it took to complete this quilt. That's probably another reason hexagons hold little appeal to me. I'm still open to the idea... but not excited at this point. What a masterpiece of work, though! Here are some close-ups of the Hexagonal Star quilt. And another close-up. Can you imagine making all of those hexagons... and fussy-cutting so many units? It is another reason I'm not tempted. Yet. I have to admit they are pretty... and after all... ...by now you know that I do love intricacy! Here's another hexagon quilt - with flowers and diamonds done as a strippy quilt! This one, Diamonds with Flowers (Losanges de fleurs) was made by Dominique Husson of Arvert, France. It was inspired by an 1840 American quilt. The hexagons are each one inch in size. But wait... there's more! Check out the fussy cutting in these flowers and diamonds. It is simply amazing. Dominique's choice of fabrics is simply wonderful. It makes me think of fabric in an entirely different way. You might not realize it, but "baby blocks" are actually a form of hexagon - made of three diamonds. Cubes by Catherine Guy of Saint-heand, France, was based on a quilt made between 1855 and 1875. With over 3,000 pieces, the quilt was jaw-dropping in its perfection. The pattern for this quilt was published in American and British women's magazines circal 1850-1860. The fabric used in the above quilt also made me think of fabric in a different way. I think we all might be a bit too timid in our fabric choices: can you see the red and white checked fabric that is used in one of the baby block rows? Who would have imagined that it would melt right into the other fabrics? Below is another quilt using hexagons as baby blocks. At first, it looks like stars, but if you disect the larger hexagon shapes (the stars), you wil notice that there are three baby block hexagons in each larger hexagon. Stars or Baby Blocks was made by Marie-Paule Nedelec and Anne Helene Nedelec, from Chateaubriant, France. It was inspired by a circa 1880 quilt from Kentucky. You can check out the "stars" or baby blocks in this close-up. Notice the precision required to make all these blocks fit together so nicely. Alice Springs, below, uses combinations of hexagons with piecing and applique. Annick Tauzin of Floirac, France based her quilt on a "Persian applique," circa 1840, from Australia. Persian applique is a more arcane term for what most of us call broderie perse. Here are some close-ups of Annick's quilt. The hand-quilting is incredible in this quilt. Note, in the picture below, that there are elongated hexagons in the narrow border to the right of the flowers. The quilt below was made by Keiko Hasegawa of Ikoma, Nara, Japan. She made a series of hexagon quilts, then had a baby named Canon... and named this quilt Canon because this quilt is for her. Keiko listened to music and canons, and sang along as she made this quilt. Here are some close-ups of this amazing quilt. Notice the hexagon border in this quilt. It's a nice touch and makes for a certain unity across the face of the qiult. And, as in many hexagone quilts, there was ample fussy-cutting of pieces. Not all hexagon quilts are based on antique quilts or use reproduction fabric. Here's a bright, cheery quilt by Lilija Kostenko fo Gouda, The Netherlands. Lilija says this quilt reminded her of a summer day. You might notice that there are hexagons inside of hexagons in this quilt -- AND there are elongated hexagons. I told you there were hexagons everywhere last year! Look at those wild fabrics, too. Celtic Summer Celebration by Jaynette Huff of Conway, Arkansas, is a wonderful exercise in detail. With original basket designs, this quilt has over 690 quarter-inch hexagons (yes, quarter inch!), over 2,580 beads, buttons and charms, and includes "hidden treasures" such as a pig, frog, ladybug, armadillo, and squirrel. What fun! Looking at the above picture, you might not have found the hexagons. Look at the center of this photo and you can see a basket of flowers. Here's a closer look... notice the buttons and the beads in this picture. And in this picture, you can easily see more hexagon flowers -- but also, you can see the 1/8th inch bias tubes that Jaynette made for this quilt. Wow! Jaynette's quilt is an original design using Celtic applique designs modified from Everything Celtic by Mary Butler Shannon. Hiromi Yokota of Yokohama City, Kanagawa, Japan, made Flower of 13,585 Pieces and Peace. Hiromi says we cannot make peace or a quilt in a few days - so she wanted to make a flower quilt of hexagones using "1 centimeter paper liner method and a feeling of peace". It is hand made and hand-quilted. Here are two close-ups. What an amazing amount of work. Notice the outer edge of the quilt: Hiromi went to great pains to maintain the hexagon shapes when she backed and quilted her quilt with a knife-edge where no binding is visible from the top of the quilt. Here are diamonds and flowers and a star - all in the same quilt - and all within a large, hexagonal shape. Credit for this quitl, Flowers from Grandmother's Secret Garden, goes to Diana Perry of Hot Springs, Arkansas. With one-quarter inch hexagons, Diana sewed approximately 2,000 hexagons to make this quilt. The quilb below is an antique quilt. I try really hard to provide attribution for each quilt I post on my blog, but I have lost the source information for this picture. I do remember that it was in a special exhibit at the Houston quilt show. It is an amazing piece of work -- and very folksy! Check out all of the hexagons just appliqued at random, as well as in flowers. Isn't it all fun? Here's a close-up of the quilt. Notice the charming baskets, the heart motifs, the butterfly... I bet the maker smiled her way through all of her stitching. These baskets just tickled my fancy with their wild abandon and crazy use of fabrics. The quilt below was also in a special antique quilt exhibit. The quiltmaker is unknown, but it was made entirely of silk circa 1860. Measuring 74 by 81 inches, this Grandmother's Flower Garden variation is unique. It did not hang because of its delicate condition -- it laid on a slanted pallet to protect it from the stress of any stretching that hanging might cause. Here's a close-up. It reminds me of the Italian milleifiori ("thousand flowers") glass. And if you had seen this quilt, you would have noticed the gorgeous quilting in the border. Seven Sisters is a classic pattern of stars - here was a quilt I saw in a class on dating fabrics. Notice the hexagons! It wasn't too hard to date the fabric, with the "Sail On, O Union" fabric in one of the hexagons. While scouring the antique booths at the Houston quilt show, I found a most amazing quilt in John Saul's antique booth. He has some incredible quilts, and this one certainly took the prize for amazing! Made of one-inch silk hexagons, it was an unbelievable piece of work. Here's a close-up. Almost none of the silk had shattered, which made it all the more beautiful. Here's another qult made of hexagons -- it looks quite different from some of the others seen here. Made by Isako Wada of Kurokawa-Gun, Miyagi-Ken, Japan, Bolero 21609 was designed when Isako had a dream about making a hexagon quilt. It is made of hexagon units - but notice that there are also many large and small hexagon motifs across the face of the quilt. Isako named her quilt because she listened to Ravel's "Bolero" while she stitched - and my guess is that it has 21,609 pieces in it. Here's another contemporary hexagon quilt. Made by Cheryl See of Ashburn, Virginia, Star Struck has 12,256 hexagon units forming a rainbow-colored star which repeats in the background. Cheryl notes that the otuer star is bordered by appliqued circles with complimentary-colored backgrounds that transition through the colors of the rainbow. Appliqued flowers and Grandmother's flowers were placed throughout the quilt, forming secondary patterns and random surprises. Okay - so after seeing all these hexagons, was I tempted? Even the least little bit? Well... not so much. Here's the closest I've gotten: snowball blocks. Of course, these are not hexagons; they're octagons! But that's as close as I can get. My friend Becky must have felt sorry for me, though. After she heard me sing Taylor Swift's "I..I...I... will never, ever, ever..." so many times, she thought that I really needed a hexagon quilt. She's an angel... and she did it, did it, did it for me.... So what have I been working on over the past month? Like I said earlier, it's been computer work and home work and family matters. I did finish binding my newest quilt, Twirly Balls and Pinwheels, and even put a sleeve on it. When I finished it, it had some "waves" in it. Those are sometimes to be expected when one deals with so many small pieces, such heavy quilting, and a wool batting. I hesitated in trying to figure out how to make the quilt flat... and finally bit the bullet and blocked it. It bled, despite the fact that I had pre-washed all my fabrics and the batting... and used no chemicals or pens that would cause bleeding. Go figure. I have a hunch it has to do with the pH level in water and will test that later with tap water, bottled water, and filtered water. I'll keep you posted! Quakertown Quilts (www.quakertownquilts.com) will be offering the pattern in the next couple of weeks -- I finished writing it this week and will get it over to them next week. Writing the pattern took extra long, not because the quilt is hard to make, but because I invested a LOT of time into photos so that everyone who makes the quilt will have a good time making it and avoid problems. It is a wonderful quilt to make! Quakertown, at some point (and maybe your own local quilt shop) will be kitting it as a 6-month block-of-the-month quilt. It's not your classic block-of-the-month, but having the fabric delivered to you over a period of time makes it a lot easier to make; there are a lot of different fabrics in this quilt. In my last blog, I mentioned that I was going to start doing lectures and workshops and traveling a bit. Whoa! Stop the presses! Within two weeks, my calendar fell into overload! I'm totally booked for 2013 and for most of 2014. I'ved accepted a couple of 2015 engagements, but I'm reluctant to accept many more. So... hang in there and send me an email if you're interested, but I'm kind of booked solid right now. Having said that, I've made a new quick-and-easy "Twirly Ball" quilt that I'm going to use in workshops. It was so much fun and so easy to make this quilt! Hopefully, someday I can come to your guild and teach a workshop!  Until we meet - and until next month -- happy quilting to everyone! Sue (c)2013 Susan H. Garman

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