If you're a quilter , you know the pain of having a huge fabric scrap pile and nothing to do
Sure, squares are interesting and easy. So, why not? If you are considering making a quilt, any one of these would be a great way to begin. How, you ask? 1. Start with a square of fabric and sew it to another square. Keep adding squares to form a row until you are satisfied that the row is long enough. Thirty inches is a good start, but you can certainly make it any length you want. 2. Make several rows. If you have a square quilt in mind (equal length and width) count the squares in the first row and make that many rows. 3. Now you're ready to begin stitching the rows together. Sew two rows together matching up the squares as you go. 4. Keep going till all the rows are in place. Really, it's that simple. One of the great reasons to use simple squares is that you can use a different fabric for each square or just a few fabrics for the entire quilt. Thanks for stopping by. Please say hello. Only Google+ members can leave a comment, BUT you can reply if you're not affiliated with G+.....just click the reply button. Please leave your email address or blog address--I'll shoot back a "hey."
How to make a memory quilt for beginners. Take all of those sweet memories, get them out of the closet, and make something beautiful!
The Playroom Quilt pattern is here! This pattern is the second to release in the Sewn Home Series. I love how playful this pattern is without being overly complicated. This is a simple and easy pattern! It's the perfect beginner quilt. Do you recognize that backing? I finally made use of my Itajime Shibori fabrics. Read more about that process here. I have made this quilt four times and every time I am surprised at how fast it comes together. Fun Fact: This pattern was actually the very first one I designed for the series. I knew I wanted it to be called the Playroom Quilt because it reminds me of the stacking blocks we have for the boys in their playroom. I love that you could shift all these blocks around and come up with a different quilt top every time if you wanted to. They create so many fun patterns when they are all together! The blue and white version you see above is the crib size quilt. I have also been using it in the stroller almost every day now that the weather has cooled off. Can I start calling it a Stroller Size instead of Crib or Baby? It really does fit perfectly around both of them in our double Bob. Now this quilt kit will be available soon from Lamb & Loom - but isn't available quite yet. It brings me all the Fall/Winter vibes. I pulled these fabrics knowing I was going to gift this quilt top to my sister in law and her partner for Christmas. As the quilt was coming together I kept thinking... well maybe I should just keep it. I love it so much, but alas it will be getting wrapped and shipped off as a gift. I guess I will just have to make another one for myself. Quilt Kits Available Now: There are so many gorgeous kits available for this quilt. Check out all of these wonderful online quilt shops to purchase the kit after you have purchase the pattern here. ROSIE GIRL QUILTING I love the gold and white, but they are also caring all of these two color versions as kits as well! How will you ever decide?! They would all be beautiful! FABRIC STORK This gorgeous pink and green combo makes me so happy! Check out this quilt kit from Fabric Stork and grab one before they are gone! SALT CITY LANE Pattern Testers: As always - we can't forget about my wonderful pattern testers. I hope these inspire you as much as they inspire me! This first one is by Shannon Killham (@Beachmamamade) Look at this little nugget! I love this color combo. I'm adding it to my to-do list. It's just perfect! This next one is by Christine (@lopolokko) and just take a look at all that color. I love how the vibrant floral balances with the white. It's gorgeous! Look at this additional gold and white combo by Ama @thevibrantpixel. I love how vibrant the gold is against the white. It's giving me all the sunshine vibes! You might also be interested in the other patterns of this series: The Living Room Quilt Pattern The Playroom Quilt Pattern The Sunroom Quilt Pattern The Mudroom Quilt Pattern The Sewn Home Pattern Bundle
FABRIC: 1 yard Yellow Ochre, 1 yard Raincoat Yellow, 2 1/2 yards Raw Oats, 1 3/4 yards Putty Gray of Purl Soho's Spectrum Cotton SIZE: 36½ x 53 inches
In this tutorial I'll show you a new size upgrade option for my Dragon Dreams pattern: add a flower banner to make a beautiful throw quilt!
Mix Them with Smaller Prints and Solids! Do you have beautiful large-scale prints you’re not sure how to use? They’ll be wonderful in this quilt and show off to perfection. Mix large-scale and smaller scale prints, then use a quiet print or solid for the sashing accent to give the eye resting spots. Any color …
Double Pinwheel & Peeping Cats Quilt Blocks. Free Pattern and Tutorial
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It's time again for a new Pattern of the Month! This month we selected the Strawberry Social Quilt Pattern by The Pattern Basket as our August 2013
Here is another Star Fling quilt, pattern by Atkinson Designs, that was made by our guild and this time they used Kansas Troubles fabrics. The other Star Fling quilt they made was pieced using bright coloured fabrics and had a totally different look. You can see that one here. This quilt is going to be donated to the Respite Room at the Personal Care Home in Flin Flon. The panto used on this one is called Wildflower and looks nice with all the tiny floral prints in the fabrics. I used a light brown So Fine thread and Quilters Dream Blend batting. Woke up to more snow this morning but the temperature got up to +3’c today so I enjoyed watching it melt!!! Looks like spring might finally be making its way up north!
Modern Quilting Tips, Tricks and Tutorials! - Everything you need to know to make quilting easy and fun so you can do what it is you love to do and create a beautiful joy filled life!
It’s Gorgeous in Any Color! This beautiful rose is big, bold and absolutely stunning. The quilt is gorgeous in whatever colors you want your rose to be. The pixelated look is produced with 2 1/2″ squares of solid fabrics. Choose color variations that create depth and shading within the flower and leaves. Quilt from Miss …
Create a simple quilt that's sure to make a splash with this stunning modern star quilt tutorial. This Supernova Star Quilt Tutorial may look complicated, but is incredibly simple to piece together, and is made up of beginner-friendly half square triangles. This throw quilt uses a combination of strategic color placement and diamond shapes to create movement within the design, and can be made with precuts or fabric scraps, depending what you've got on hand. Complete with a layout diagram, this modern quilt is a great project for beginners who want to work on their piecing skills, and is sure to be a conversation-starter wherever it's displayed.
I have never been more excited to share with you a quilt than I am today!! My hexie flower quilt is done. Finally! No more basting hexies or sewing flowers together. When I initially started back in the summer of 2015, I never thought it would take me this long. In fact it was going so slow tha
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The Voyage quilt pattern is fat quarter friendly and a great quilt pattern for beginners – includes lots of extra video tutorials.
Make a striking pillow cover that has the look of woven fabric by orienting one easy block four ways. Fabrics are from the Imperial Garden collection by Teresa Chan for Paintbrush Studio.
Are you new to machine quilting? You may have made tied quilts for a while and now want to explore machine quilting. I’ve seen a lot of advice given for how to machine quilt but I think mos…
Two layers of Embrace Double Gauze from Shannon Fabrics with Pellon Wool Batting in the middle makes for a super soft and cuddly quilt. The wool is lighter and fluffier than cotton batting — the only difference in care is that it can't go in the dryer. It's just returned...
Bricks and Square Teen & Child (click here to open the pattern in a new window)
Hi friends! Today I have a really special (long) post for you! Today I want to share a quilt that took me two years and about 85 hours to...
When I went to Quiltcon in February, I discovered a new type of quilting called Matchsticking. It might not be new, but it is new to me! Matchstick quilting on one of the quilts hanging at Quiltcon 2015 I fell in love with this technique, so I cornered Jacquie Gering, the Chairperson of the Modern Quilt Guild, to tell me how it is done. She gave me some great tips, including telling me to just go home and try it! That is just what I did. If you want to try it, here are some tips to get you started. The first thing I did was use a ruler and a chalk marker to draw straight lines 2.5″ apart. I sewed on those lines, then I drew lines in the exact center of those lines and sewed over them. On both of these steps, I started in the center and worked my way out. It’s pretty important to get these first lines as straight as possible or your whole design will be off. I asked some matchstick quilting experts (AKA people that had done it more than once) why you can’t just start from one side and then keep sewing lines really close together. Each of them said that it is impossible to get straight lines that way. The only way to keep the lines straight is to start with drawn lines and keep sewing lines in between the lines. Every time you sew a set of lines, cut the distance in between those two lines in half, and sew another line. I did always start in the middle of my piece and work out. At this point, however, I didn’t draw the lines on anymore; I just used the edge of my foot as the guide. But, I started to get worried. To me, this still looked like Straight line quilting, not Matchsticking. When I split that last line in two, the matchsticking emerged! Isn’t it cool ?!?! I used several different thread colors, weights and types of thread to add interest. For this piece, I used Sulky 30 wt. Cotton Blendables®, Sulky 12 wt. Cotton, Sulky PolyLite™, and Sulky Metallic thread. The fabric I used is Amy Barickman’s Crossroads Denim. At one point in my sewing, I started to wonder, what makes it Matchstick quilting vs. Straight Line or Echo quilting? I decided in was 1/4″. If the space between the lines is 1/4″ or more, it is Straight line or Echo Quilting. Under that, it’s Matchstick. (Disclaimer: This is not a scientific study, it’s just my opinion) I made two large rectangles with matchstick quilting, but wanted to go one step further on my second piece, so I added a tight zigzag with Sulky 30 wt. Blendables Thread in Granite. I am in love with this technique. I can see using this for so many projects. This particular piece, I am going to make into a computer bag for my new computer (tutorial to come, I promise!). What do you think of Matchsticking? Have you tried it? will you try it? Let me know in the comments below! Happy Sewing!
Incorporating curves in my work has been as challenging as it has been satisfying. There’s something about the shape of a half circle in a quilt that’s unexpected, gentle and pleasing — elements that you can’t get from other shapes. I consider it an intermediate-level sewing skill, but I encourage y
Cosseting and quite weighty throw, created in collaboration with Glasgow-based homeware designer Niki Jones. Hand-quilted, soft and lustrous cotton velvet. Pure linen reverse and cotton filling. For the end of a bed. ### Details Dry clean. 100% cotton velvet front, 100% linen reverse, 100% cotton filling.Made in India. 140 x 220cm.
Free large hexagon quilt pattern & template. Make a simple hexagon quilt with no Y seams with our tutorial. Uses half hexagon quilt pieces.
I indulged in a few long afternoons of playing in EQ8 recently. As usual, what I ended up with bears no resemblance to what I started with. This instance was rather extreme: I was thinking flowers and somehow ended up with a sailboat. Go figure! This block design ended up in my Sailing School pattern. For a tutorial about HRT, go here. After I drew it, I printed out the cut sizes the software suggested and happily started cutting and sewing, only to find that my sails were not turning out the size they should. I suppose I could have winged it and fudged all the other block parts to make it all fit together, but I'm really not an improv kind of quilter. I can appreciate a well-made improv quilt, but I don't particularly enjoy the process myself. I like to know what to cut to what size to make things fit in a predetermined way. So there. This of course meant that I needed to figure out why things weren't working out. I double- and triple-checked my seam allowance. I cut more fabric, checking my measurements. Nope, still not working. I finally figured out that my problem arose from having to guess how to line up the triangles when I sewed them together. I wasn't hitting the sweet spot. I thought I knew where to align one piece relative to the seam allowance on the other. I was wrong, though it would have worked if the geometry of that long triangle hadn't messed up the works. To make a long story short, in a HRT unit, if you want the diagonal seam to reach perfectly from corner to corner, you don't want the seam to be exactly on the diagonal of the unfinished unit. I drew it out on paper to wrap my mind around it. The paper is cut to the unfinished size of the unit and the drawn rectangle inside is the finished size. If you extend the line that runs diagonally from corner to corner in the finished size, you see that it does not actually cross the corners of the unfinished unit. Well, that's a fine how-do-you-do! I know there are rulers out there that take all this into account. In fact, I have one on my wall that would suit, except that it isn't large enough for the unit I needed. Also, the quilt design I have in mind uses just a few boat blocks, and I'd hate to ask folks to buy a specialty ruler for just a few blocks. I humphed and harrumphed and decided there must be away to make these a little larger and cut down to size so alignment wouldn't be such a bother. I took in ideas from various tutorials, and spent half the afternoon stirring them all together and finally came up with something that worked the way I wanted. I spent the rest of the afternoon figuring out the math to know what size rectangles to start with to end up with a given size. It would be a pain to use trial and error every time I want a different sized unit. There's a tutorial in the works to share the details. In the meantime, tell me, have you used HRT in any projects? If so, do you have any tips or trick to share? UPDATE: The tutorial is now available here!
FABRIC: 1 yard Yellow Ochre, 1 yard Raincoat Yellow, 2 1/2 yards Raw Oats, 1 3/4 yards Putty Gray of Purl Soho's Spectrum Cotton SIZE: 36½ x 53 inches
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…
To see most current post at Kelly Girl Quilts, click HERE! Good Friday morning, look at all the nice Nevada sunshine today! I ran out to take these pictures before work... I forgot yesterday morning. I'll take some more quilting pictures when I have a kinder afternoon sun and you can see the texture a bit better. I thought about a gold binding, but decided to stay with blue. and... the back is a panel of the solar system, the stars glow in the dark. I usually go with a pieced back, but fell in love with this panel! Yay, a finish! and it's Friday! To see most current post at Kelly Girl Quilts, click HERE!
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
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I made these two quilt tops for fall, the second one begin with the scraps from the first one. Then I had a baby... and now I’ve had some time to see again. So these two quilts are in the shop! Bo
