So this project was started awhile ago but then my iron broke (one too many tumbles off the ironing board) and I had to put it on pa...
Or shall I call them "Silent Prayers To-Go", or "Quiet Prayers"... Not sure what to call them, but these are our latest creations. I kept trying to figure out what we could give to those who wouldn't have a need (or who we can't provide for) a small/med/large quilt. I came up with one you can put in your pocket (or purse) and take it with you when you visit someone ill, or in caring for someone in need, when (really) the one who needs the comfort is YOU. Here are a few mini quilt blocks (5" square or so...) that I threw together today. I actually have several 5"-6" squares that I make from the scraps of my quilts. I throw them in a drawer in the hopes of putting together a quilt that makes me think of every quilt I've made in the past. Here are a few made with selvedges and fancy stitches. I think I ended up with nine of them.... Of course, you knew they couldn't stay organized... Then you get to see each one of them. All they need is a tie in the center. Okay..... I now have them tied and here is how I'll display them. This is the cute little sign in the basket.
Small but mighty! A pocket prayer quilt is a tiny quilt with a prayer or saying on it. It works up quickly, uses scrap fabric, and the prayer can be ironed on the fabric using HTV or a DTF transfer.
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This patchwork heart prayer quilt is adorable and it comes with a free pattern to use by Shabby Fabrics.
I've been collecting my favourite Ruby Star Society prints to create these beautiful bundles. I just love basics (designs that read almost as solids), small geometric prints, sweet florals - they're all perfect for the small pieces used in EPP. Once collated, I was chuffed to discover that the colours together reminded me of my favourite antique EPP quilts from 150 years ago. They were just the inspiration I needed to make Evensong, a traditional EPP design, known as Rose Star! I made my quilt from the scraps of these bundles, so I wasn't working with exactly the same fabric sizes. But if you'd like to make Evensong with this bundle, you'll have enough for at least 2 rounds per print. (details for the most efficient way to cut fabric from a fat 16th in the Evensong pattern!) You'll be able to make all the blocks with the fabrics included, and you'll need to add to the low volume prints for the joining blocks. Containing 96 beautiful pieces, each 10" x approx 10-11". Ruby Star Society make my favourite fabrics for EPP, not just because of their modern, whimsical vibe, but because the fabric is soft and fine, and really easy to baste, without being so tightly woven, like lawn, that it's harder to stitch through. It's the best of both worlds! These fabric bundles contain 6 metres (a little over 6 1/2yds) in total. Each bundle is exactly the same as pictured (with the exception of 3 or 4 bundles where a single print ran out at the end). The Warmhearted Quilt pictured was made from the bundle by my mum! She got 4-6 hearts from each print, depending on if they had a selvedge, which was plenty to make the whole quilt. Please read before purchasing: Important! A note about metric cuts: The fabrics are metric fat 16ths. This means they have been cut from a metre (100cm/40") into quarters, then in quarters again, rather than from a yard (90cm/36"). An Imperial F16 is usually 9" wide, and these are 10" (25cm) wide. Important! A note about fat 16ths: Fat 16ths are cut from a quarter of a metre (or yard). They are cut along the fold and then cut again at 11", approximately 1/4 of the 44" width of fabric. If the fabric hasn't been folded accurately in half on the bolt, or if the width of fabric differs from 44", these pieces with selvedge can be slightly shorter or slightly longer than 11". We've done our best to spread these shorter pieces (around 10" instead of 11") throughout the bundles so that everyone gets the same amount. Bundles are already cut: if you order 2, you'll get 2 seperate bundles. Bundles can't be altered.
Follow our easy step-by-step tutorial showing your three different ways to make these items that enable you to spread Christian love and kindness. The gift of
I’m back with another jelly roll quilt pattern! This quilt is super easy to piece and comes together in a flash! It’s perfect for beginning quilters or any quilter who needs a quick finish.
This week was a week of stepping back and setting some priorities on my projects. There are a lot of things calling for my attention right now, and some of them are pretty loud and demanding! In two weeks I will begin the first of several classes for my pattern, Amish Beauties! This class was accepted at Runaway Quilters Retreat in September this year, and I'll be teaching it to 20 students that week! How exciting!!! Locally, The Quilter's Path is also offering a couple of opportunities to take the class and make this quilt - Friday, August 29, and Saturday, August 30. You can contact Marita at the shop for more details if you are interested. The best news is that she is putting together KITS for this quilt, and her bright solids are amazing!!!! Patterns will be available for sale on October 1, but those who are taking classes will of course receive their pattern at the class. Needless to say, I want to be sure I have all my ducks in a row on this class, so a lot of paperwork is in process and taking up a lot of my time! But it's a fun time and I'm enjoying it tremendously :) On my Design Wall this week, I have my Blooming Nine Patch still, and I did mange to carve out some time for the joy of making 9-patches for it. I finished up Color 8 this week and got halfway through Color 9, which is the Dark Purple and the last color. These final strips quickly became units for the last of the 9-patches..... Here are some units cut and ready for the final row of 9-patches, with a strip set all ready to cut more when needed.... I can't say enough about how fun this quilt design is proving to be for me! I'm almost disappointed to be finishing up the last row of colors! I've decided not to put a border on it, just finishing up with setting triangles and a binding in the dark purple. Of course, there's still a lot of sewing on this top because all of those squares have to be sewn together to complete the top. Then I saw this CUTE little Shark Pencil Case - it's a FREE pattern and tutorial on Patchwork Posse - and knew immediately that I had to make one for Sara for school this year. Doesn't every Marine-Biologist-in-Training need one of these??? I've even had a few other family requests for this cute little helper :) I haven't started on the shark yet. Of course, I had to wash all my GRAY fabric first :) That worked great since I didn't have a color to wash for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge this month. I even threw a few recent black purchases into the darker grays - isn't this just the cutest little black & white print???? So that's what's going on at A Quilt and A Prayer... how about you? What do you have on your Design Wall this week? Share with us at Judy's Patchwork Times! Hugs & Blessings! Teresa =^..^=
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Cabin Peaks quilt pattern is now on the shop! It's finally here! The Cabin Peaks quilt pattern is now available and I am so dang excited! I've had this idea in mind for a while. I just had to find the time and motivation to get it done. That motivation came when I joined the Pantone Quilt Challenge, and I made my first
Another commission for the same person, all my design. Late 2003.
How to Sew a Patchwork Quilt for Beginners. Tutorial
Prayer flags have been around for thousands of years, but today’s fiber artists are putting their own spin on the ancient tradition. A growing number of artists are using these small but meaningful flags as an outlet for expressing their hopes, dreams, and concerns—and the design possibilities are endless. You can use shibori techniques, sun printing,…
Like a river, A blue prayer rising. A way to use that word. A new wave theory maybe. Grounded by my safety net. Thoughts of nowhere being everywhere. I am here and not here.
Handmade in Santa Rosa, California Handmade rainbow prayer flags to uplift the vibration of your home. Handmade by Sabel Rose Regalia from Sabel Rose Regalia Fine Quilts. Artist Description I hand-make each strand of these beautiful bright cotton flags. Folks love them on their porch, in doorways, in their gardens, kid’s rooms, anywhere you need a burst of color and added dimension. I infuse love, gratitude, clown tears, unicorn sneezes, peace, and harmony into each one. Each panel is about 9”x6” with stitched edges. There’s 12 panels per strand, one of each color in rainbow order, making about a 10 foot long strand (120”). There’s loops on the ends of the cotton twill for easy hanging.
Your Laser or Inkjet Printer Can Produce Wonderful Results! With so many beautiful fabrics to choose from at the quilt store, it’s hard to imagine why you’d want to print your own. However, your printed designs can add truly special touches to a quilt. For example, photos are often printed on fabric and added to …
Top US quilting blog, Diary of a Quilter, sares Fat Quarter-friendly Baby Quilt Tutorial in a modern bricks layout. Click now for more details!
Are you ready to make the easiest quilt ever? If so, read on to see how I made this easy quilt with no measuring or pattern required!
It’s not a fire ball, it’s a Flower Ball! Great news on the kitchen remodel! Things are moving quickly, the...
Are you aware that there is a little Prayer Flag Blog Hop going on at the moment? To further the Prayer Flag movement, Vivika an...
New York Beauty quilts are a style of quilt with broken circles and rays. They resemble the motif of the Statue of Liberty and Chrysler Building
I hope you all had a great holiday – I’m finally getting everything back to normal around here and can’t wait to get back to my sewing machine. I finished this quilt before Christ…
I promised to show you pictures today of a UFO from last year that I finally got quilted – thanks once again to my friend Joanne who allowed me to use her wonderful Gammill =^..^= This is one of my favorite quilts …--- my One Block Wonder! One of my earliest mentors when I first began quilting, Sue Pulling, taught this as a two-day class when Music City had its retreat in March of last year. Sue came all the way from Michigan to join the retreat with her old friends and teach the class. And what a class it was!!! Sue is really, really good at what she does, and teaching is her specialty. We had so much fun with this technique! For those of you who are not familiar with this quilt design, it comes from the this book by Maxine Rosenthal. The basic technique is to choose a lively fabric with a fairly large design that contains at least 3 colors, making sure you have enough fabric to cover 6 repeats of the design run. This was my fabric…. You layer the fabric so that six repeats of the design lay one on top of the other perfectly, cut it in strips, then in 60 degree triangles. Then you sew the triangles back together to form a hexagon kaleidoscope! It was a blast seeing each of these lovely hexies come to shape right before my eyes! It was even more fun doing it as a class because we got to see what the others’ fabrics were producing too. I wish I had pictures of them to share, but I wasn’t blogging back then and didn’t think to take pics. One girl did hers in an African animal theme and it produced some amazing hexies! Others chose orientals which worked out just beautifully! Joanne (of the-friend-with-the-Gammill fame) chose a really lively and colorful fall fabric that turned out some of the most original and exciting designs of them all! Because my fabric is so bright and the colors are not your ordinary run-of-the-mill, I had a hard time choosing the inner border. I had a pink that went okay, and I also had a really nice lettuce green that worked perfectly. But both of them disappeared in the corners where they came next to the same colors in the quilt. And I felt they were kind of blah for such a lively quilt. Finally, just on a lark I picked this stripe out of my stash just to see how it would look – Eureka!!! But it needed something to stop the design between the stripe and the fabrics, so I put in a ¼” pink flange on both sides. I really LOVE that look.... However that love did NOT extend to the quilting! It was quite frankly a B**** to quilt because of those little flanges! I wanted to do an allover panto because the quilt itself was so busy the quilting would have disappeared anyway. But in order to do the panto, I had to pin down all the flanges and stop/start at each one, tie threads off, take great care not to sew over onto the flange…. None of this is easy on a longarm! I am really happy with the result, but I would only ever do it again for a special quilt like this one! For the binding, I decided I needed to use the stripe again, but not on a bias as I usually do for stripes because that just didn’t work at all. And once again, it needed that little bit of pink to corral the two different designs between the quilt and the stripe. I chose to do a small 1/8” flange under the binding which I think works out perfectly! It’s double the work, and a little tricky working the corners out because of all the bulk... .... but the effect is well worth it, don’t you think? So that’s my TaDa!!! For the day!!! Hope you enjoyed seeing my One Block Wonder come alive! I’ll be teaching a class on this at The Quilter’s Path in Mt. Juliet this summer, so check at the shop for times if you are local and would like to make this quilt =^..^= Hugs & Blessings, Teresa =^..^= FYI - Check out the cool giveaway going on over HERE at Lily Pad Quilting! And then go see what others are doing where I'm linking up this post: Can I Get a Whoop Whoop? at Confessions of a Fabric Addict Link a Finish Friday at Richard and Tanya Quilts June Finishes at Such a Sew & Sew Tuesday Linky Party at Quilting by the River Fabric Tuesday at Quilt Story
This Easy DIY Rag Strip Quilt is a great gift to give to a new bundle of joy. It can come together in one afternoon, it's so easy.
.... Unless it's a Seahorse ! Design by ©The Tartankiwi I spent my weekend happily paper piecing, testing this wonderful pattern desi...
Finished the campfire piece today. Actually, I thought I had it finished yesterday. It looked like this: I don't know if you can see what I changed. The bottom foreground wasn't quite working for me. Those rocks around the fire looked too tight and somehow unnatural. And the ground itself wasn't "grounding." I added a couple more rocks and some deep shadow, which seem like an improvement to me. And then I added more sparks. Seemed like it needed those. This piece will be submitted for our next High Fiber Diet show, "The Elements." If I can get them done in time, I hope to complete all four elements to submit. I started with "fire" because it seemed the most challenging, but now I am having a hard time coming up with any ideas for earth, air and water! The size of this is 15" x 35". I kind of wish I had made it larger.
Star Connection, nylon, natural dyes, 68 x 83 inches Yoshiko Jinzenji lives and works in Japan and in Bali. Her quilts are simple and to the point. They are spiritual, covered with hand work and attention to detail. They are like prayers. Baby quilts, bamboo dyed silk, hand stitch She began quilting after she came upon quilts made by Canada's Mennonite people in the 70's and was moved by their resonant, sacred quality. When she attended the Mennonite Relief Sale she realized that the Waterloo area Quiltmakers played a role of global significance. "Women's handwork was making a huge contribution to the welfare of humanity, and that helped inspire my eventual decision to devote my own life to quilting." Ten Thousand piece quilt, Natural dye, cotton, 72 inches square The energy in the repeated texture of the many seams and the understated colour make Ten Thousand Piece Quilt a minimalist masterpiece. All images in this post are from Quilt Artistry: Inspired Designs from the East, a book published in 2002 about Yoshiko Jinzenji's work. Versification II Yoshiko calls the method used for the above quilt 'spiral block', a technique similar to the traditional log cabin technique in that the fabrics are stitched around a central square. What's different is the use of innovative materials such as titanic coated nylon and rubber in combination with silk, wool and cotton and the artist's use of piping cord to strengthen and enhance the wide variety of textures. Dew II, silk, cotton, wool, linen, natural dyes including bamboo, 75 x 77 inches "What I am striving for is to bring out and add to the essential textures of the cloth" she says. "to create shadows and light, to find a balance between minimalism and a sense of richness." white repose hand stitched bamboo dyed silk quilt 85 x 102 inches
