Put all those small scraps in your stash to good use with this adorable house quilt block pattern + tutorial, available for FREE right here!
“Through the years, quilts have become documents of history. They are the products of their society, influenced by the culture, and the environment of the people who made them. The history of America can be
Choose your favorite 5" charm squares to make you own cute and scrappy My Town quilt!
A house on a quilt is a symbol of comfort and the togetherness of family, friends, and neighbors. House quilts really appeal to us, maybe be...
In this quilt block tutorial, we are going to show you how to make the village quilt block that is used in the Moda Village Quilt Pattern. Watch the step-by-step video below or scroll down for the written instructions Start by cutting your pieces according to the downloadable pattern. Take the first side roof piece and overlay it over the main roof. Sew with a quarter inch seam and press open. Overlay the other side roof and sew with a quarter inch seam and press open. Your village roof should look like this. Now we need to trim the roof
This Christmas in July project is so fun and I love seeing all your blocks! If you’re joining me for the first time visiting for the Mini Quilt Christmas Quilt Along, I'm so excited you are here! I'm Pat, and I’ve been quilting 'online' since 1999! I write quilt books, do videos and tutorials, host sew alongs, design fabric for Benartex, and share it all with my worldwide online neighborhood of quilters. Find out more about my sew alongs HERE and join my online neighborhood HERE Block #3 is darling, are you ready? Block Three: The darling cottage! I'm going...
House quilts really appeal to us, maybe because "home is where the heart is." With dozens of FREE quilt patterns... which house will you cho...
A little walk through of how to sew the roof... i knew you'd want one! The pattern has ALL the sizes and Directions, so follow in the pattern for that (you get it here) In order to avoid flipping a triangle around the wrong way, lay the block out next to the machine as you sew Sew one side Press, this is important. If you don't press, you block is not flat so you create issues when you sew on the next triangle. Did you ever sew on that next triangle and find you were not on the straight and...
This was the last house block I made for the Dwell Quilt (The Dwell pattern comes from the Simply Retro book by Camille Roskelley) Sew Along my friends and I are working on. It took me three and a half hours to make three blocks but, hey, they loved it! The pattern for the topiary tree …
church quilt block | Skill level: Intermediate One of the visitors to the website requested a pattern for a Church Quilt Block, so I recently drafted the block you see above.
I put all those triangles to use this weekend and a mini-quilt was born. It still needs to be pressed, and then I think I’ll make it into a size we can use around the house. The triangles were leftover from making these blocks: The quilt turned out fab. I got myself a bunny this...Read More
Moda Fabrics and Miss Rosies Quilt Co are sharing a free Village Quilt Pattern with everyone in the quilting community so we all remember that in times of uncertainty we are not alone, we are all still part of a village! Across miles and oceans we are intertwined and our well-being is tied to each other. So as a village, we’re going to make a Village. Please join us in making these lovely Village House blocks! They are made from charm squares and background fabric. You can also use lay
Choose your favorite 5" charm squares to make you own cute and scrappy My Town quilt!
Hello and happy Wednesday! Today I’m happy to be sharing a little update on my Village house quilt! I’m making very scrappy houses using all of our fabric collections: Bright Sun, Valley, Desert Bloom, Creekside, The Front Porch, and Clover Hollow! I’ve actually had some of these houses finished for quite a little bit now […]
Hi everyone! Today I'm releasing the pattern for the first block of the #HillsideHousesQAL . This is House #1 on the coloring sheet . ...
We're taking a stroll through the neighbourhood this month at Quilt Block Mania. If you'd like to take a fun selfie on our walk, why not stop in front of these colourful houses? This quilt block is named after downtown St. John's, Newfoundland, where the houses' bright colours earned them the nickname Jellybean Row.
My scrap little house quilt Tutorial - Megelles Sewing Tutorials My scrap little house quilt Tutorial - My scrap little house quilt
After much fiddling with my new EQ7 software, I finally have templates for my Wonky House block that are ready to share and download! You may remember this block from my massive Stash Bee block catch up from last month. Pauline requested wonky houses for her month back in February and I definitely hesitated as I've mentioned before that I don't do wonky very well. A lightbulb went off and I thought to design a paper piecing "wonky" pattern with EQ7. This way I could have my cake and eat it too...the block would be perfectly wonky...with the bonus of crisp template lines to follow along with. I'm not going to share a tutorial for paper piecing in general, as there are several awesome ones out there in blog land, and why reinvent the wheel. If you have never paper pieced before, or need a refresher, check out Faith of Fresh Lemon's Quilts Paper Piecing Tutorial her's is my favorite! The Wonky House Paper Piecing Templates can be found here. Block size is 12.5" unfinished, or 12" finished. Please download the file to your computer before printing the templates, as I've found the block sizing to be off when printing directly from Google documents. Cut out all template pieces and paper piece using the numbered sections on each template. Once all your sections are pieced, use the above diagram to assemble your block. Please note sections A, H and I are single fabric sections. Due to the size constrictions of fitting the template pieces onto standard 8.5" x 11" paper for printing, this was the only option. Also, please note that the above finished block is a mirror image (read: backward) of the template pieces. Once your block is pieced, admire your work! Also be sure to add it to the SewCraftyJess Flickr group, as I'd love to see your interpretation! If you are interested in the ramblings of my EQ7 experiences so far, check out the review below: I had been in the market for quilt design software for some time now, and had deliberated between several options. I have used the TouchDraw app for my iPad thus far for quilt patterns and tutorial illustrations, which has worked great, but I really wanted something to help design paper piecing templates. I checked out jumping in with Adobe Illustrator, but ultimately thought that might be a little more than I really needed (and pricier too!), as well as checked out a few online quilt design options including Thread Bias' Quilt Design Tool, but decided that I wanted something that would be downloaded to my computer and not require a monthly subscription fee. After ruling out these options, I settled on Electric Quilt's EQ7. After receiving my software in the mail (I ordered from Fat Quarter Shop) I spent quite a bit of time reviewing the users manual for EQ7, learning the ins and outs of the software, as well as watching the demo videos and tips that are built right into the software. I also purchased the book EQ With Me: Pieced Drawing, as I was still a little unsure of the best way to use the software to design blocks that I had in mind. I can't say enough good things about this book. It takes each of the modes available in the EQ7 software and teaches you how to use them via a multitude of step by step tutorials (lessons) detailing how to construct various blocks of assorted difficulty. If I had known about this book from the beginning, I would have skipped the users manual and dove right into the lessons, as I'm a hands-on learner. So far, there hasn't been a quilt block I've come up with that EQ7 couldn't design, or a quilt layout that didn't easily come together. I'm also a huge fan of the ability to import fabric swatches to get an actual image of what a quilt will look like with certain fabrics. As for the cons, my main dislike is the lack of instruction within the software and users manual itself for using each function to actually construct quilt blocks. Maybe its just me, but I find its one thing to understand how a tool works and another to apply that tool in a string of 9 other tools to make a finished product. Now as mentioned before, the EQ With Me book completely did this for me, but after spending all that money on the software, its understandable to not want to spend another $30 on a book to learn how to use the software. One of the main reasons I wanted this software was to design paper piecing templates not only for myself, but to share with all you lovely readers. While EQ7 makes the designing aspect of this incredibly easy (once getting the hang of things), it doesn't make the sharing part easy at all. I found (and confirmed) that there is no way to save the resulting pages of paper piecing templates as an image document or PDF in the software. While this is no big deal if only making templates for yourself, but it poses a huge problem if planning on sharing the templates as a download with others. There is a way around this, I used Shape Moth's suggestion of installing a free PDF creator (I downloaded this one for free and it works like a charm) that lists itself among your printer options, so instead of printing the final copy of paper piecing templates via a printer, you can "print" them by selecting the PDF creator from the drop down printer selector which then results in PDF pages to save to your computer that are ready to download, instead of printed pages. Let me make myself clear, most of my gripes I have have nothing to do with the actual function of how the software works to design quilts and quilt blocks, but instead are with the little extras that would help with the finishing stages of publishing and sharing paper piecing templates. Perhaps this is where I should have considered Adobe Illustrator (and its heftier price tag) for publishing purposes, but in case you perhaps are considering EQ7 for the same reasons, I thought I'd share my experiences. On the whole, I can't say enough good things about this software and its ease of use, and only a minuscule amount of gripes, which for the most part I have been able to navigate around. I definitely give it a two thumbs up, which if I had to purchase again, would do so in a heartbeat! Disclaimer: I have not been paid in any way for this review. It is simply an unbiased review of my thoughts and impressions to share with others who may be in the market for quilt design software.
Hello! I’m stopping in with a reminder today about the Village parade here on the blog next week… Pictured is a lovely group of houses constructed by Michele at Island Life Quilts. This is the perfect pattern for scraps…or choose a favorite collection as a starting place and then add in other favorites! (For extra […]
Hello and happy Wednesday! Today I’m happy to be sharing a little update on my Village house quilt! I’m making very scrappy houses using all of our fabric collections: Bright Sun, Valley, Desert Bloom, Creekside, The Front Porch, and Clover Hollow! I’ve actually had some of these houses finished for quite a little bit now […]
House quilts really appeal to us, maybe because "home is where the heart is." With dozens of FREE quilt patterns... which house will you cho...
You’ve seen temperature quilts haven’t you? Each day is represented by a block or patch? My sister Deb making one this year … I lifted this photo from her Facebook page. I love house quilts and coul
It was such a privilege to make this Dacha quilt for RJR's "What Shade Are You?" blog. Working with all of these bright fabrics was s...
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...
Forever Green Quilts is offering a free block of the month quilt in 2009! This cute house quilt is called "Come Over to My House" and was de...
Hi everyone! Okay, so I said I wouldn't bug you until next week, but I made a layout guide so you know how we're going to be placing the blocks. The quilt is made up of 12 blocks, and the quilt will b
This spooky Witch's House mini quilt is the perfect sewing project to create eye-catching Halloween decor! Haunted House Paper Pieced Quilt Pattern
From a Quilt Designed by WENDY SHEPPARD WEB BONUS Download the FREE House Block Pattern. Use House Blocks along wiith Square in a Square and Pathway
An easy no math method teaching how to make polaroid quilt blocks. A quick and easy quilting tutorial for polaroid quilt blocks.
Jeanneke from the Netherlands led a group of quilters in making lots of scrap house quilts. You can see photos of all the quilts at BuildingHousesFromScraps. They used rubber stamps to mark the fabrics. These houses are tiny! They measure 3" square! (Thanks for that info in your Comments.)
In this free pattern for a 6" dairy barn quilt block, you will learn how to make three different blocks including the half-rectangle block.
Make a raw-edge applique wall quilt with bright colors for a row of houses and flowers.
There is nothing like home decor that features a cozy hillside full of cottages. We love how varying the fabric shades lends different looks to the Hillside Houses Quilt. Darker backgrounds give the look of houses in the evening. The download includes a color sheet and layout guide. Take a look at Leslie Unfinished’s ideas […]
Use our three free quilt block patterns to start making your own handmade quilt. Follow our tutorial and start sewing today.
