Guest post from Sharon McConnell sharing tips and tricks for piecing curves in quilting as well as the Classic Curve Ruler to help with cutting accuracy.
Have fun :) Please click images to enlarge Fill pattern, version 1 Fill pattern, version 2
Step 4 is done - here placed on top of the blocks for Mill Girls. I did this step the same way as step 2. Making bigger pieces of fabric...
My friend Laura has been trying free motion quilting! We are time zones apart, so unfortunately I can't hover over her shoulder with encour...
How to sew, Free quilt patterns
I love the "Swoon" block done scrappy style. The three quilts below are the wall hangings I made last summer as teaching tools for my lect...
The February Aurifil Designer Block of the Month was released a few days ago and I had so much fun sewing it up this morning!!! February i...
Copyright 2008, Penny Squirrell. Made in Ontario, Canada. Here is the pattern workup for the Ultimate Scrap Quilt. Penny was getting so many requests that she asked me to post it here to share with everyone. Please remember that this pattern is for CHARITY quilts and may NOT be sold nor are the quilts made from it to be sold. It is protected by all copyright laws, yada, yada. You know how it goes. Please respect the work she put into this pattern and make lots of charity quilts and quilts for people you love. You can always send a thanks to her at the email below! Of course, you will want to print this pattern, so here is what I figured out after trying 17 different things! Hey, I'm slow at 6 in the morning =) Click on the pattern and your computer will magically open up just the pattern in a new window. Then, hit the print button on the top of the screen and just the pattern will print out. Hope that works for you. If it doesn't, ask a teenage kid to help you. They know way more than I do about computers and I'm not afraid to say that. I work with teenage kids all the time (I teach high school science) and I get them to fix my computer at school so I don't have to learn how. My brain can only hold so much information and I'd rather fill it with quilting skills any day thank you very much. As for putting the quilt squares together, here's what I did. If you look at the block, you will see that there are three vertical rows. One row has three 8 1/2 inch squares, one row has the three skinny strips and the middle row has lots of pieces. If you work on one block at a time, which I did because I pre-sorted my fabrics so I wouldn't get too many of the lobster (which I have been told are actually crawdad--crayfish) prints together. I would sew two of the 8 1/2 squares together, then the 6 1/2 x 4 1/2 then something from the 3rd row and back to the 1st row. I like the chain piece so I'm not wasting thread. Back and forth between the three strips until you get to the end and you don't have that choice. Then, I got brave and grabbed into the next group of blocks for the next big square. I kept each big square's pieces on a different leg while sewing so I wouldn't get them mixed up. Hey, the system works for me. Just don't ask me to get up in the middle of making these blocks or I look at you with my mean look. I'll post that picture one day. Then, when each of the blocks is done, lay them out on a clean spot on the floor. For most of you, this isn't a problem, but for me, I have to find a spot big enough. Luckily, the kids had vacuumed the living room yesterday and we were able to lay it out there =) They actually accused me of planning that. Who me? Twist and turn all of the blocks so that you don't have two of the same colors touching, unless that is the look you want. Penny said that one lady in her guild did this with only 3 colors. I'd like to try that one and see how it turns out. Should be interesting. Sew the blocks together and I put a 4 inch border around mine. You can see from the pattern that the original pattern is for 12 blocks. That makes a mighty big quilt. Perfect for homeless shelters or battered women's shelters. I've never made anything that big before and am always afraid to try new things, but one day may give it a shot. Thanks again Penny for sharing with all of us! Aren't quilters just the best?
If you’ll remember back a few days ago we were all challenged a bit by the Greek Key design. Now,...
After staring at fabrics for too long trying to decide what pattern to make my baby a quilt with…I went with classic hourglass blocks. There are probably loads of good tutorials for these blocks already, but since these are one of my favorites I wrote one up for this quilt: Baby Hourglass Quilt: Quilt...Read More
My newest quilt pattern - part of the Monster Horde collection. It was SO MUCH FUN to make! Read more about it at wendigratz.blogspot.com/2013/03/monsters-scary-squares-qu...
2020 Update: I made a new version of this block to share on Instagram! If you make one, please tag it #pinwheeltoss and tag me @cloverandviolet. You are welcome to use the block for quilting bees. And if you want your finished block to measure 12” instead of 13”, just replace all the 5” measurements...
A printable Apple Core Template can be a useful tool for various craft projects or educational activities. It typically consists of a simple outline of an apple core that can be printed and used as a stencil or guide for cutting or tracing..
Updated to reflect actual Kona colors in text and in colors displayed. These are the colors I used for the Baby Bottled Rainbows!
BERNINA Educator Nina McVeigh created the BERNINA Block of the Month quilt to help you improve your piecing and quilting skills.
Reproduction Quilts & Fabric
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The Secret Society Part 1 - Apple Cores Why is it that it has been such a secret over the years on "How to English Paper Piece Apple cores"? People love the shapes but simply don't know how to do...
Quilter Jill Finley shares her easy method for invisibly stitched machine appliqué in this tutorial at WeAllSew.
I’ve made many strip quilts in the past and I’m often asked for a pattern. I don’t really think that a pattern is necessary – one of the things I really like about strip qui…
Nearly 150 years after emancipation, we still delight in hearing tales of a slave's escape. This lively block stitched of only one triangular pattern piece captures the cleverness the adventure required. In her 1935 book The Romance of the Patchwork Quilt, Carrie Hall gave the name "Catch Me If You Can" to an old design with many other names including "Winding Blades", "Devil's Puzzle" and "Flyfoot." Escape was often an impulse move. When opportunity knocked, a slave might slip through the door. Eliza Potter told the story of a young woman, a slave in Kentucky, who accompanied her mistress across the river to Cincinnati in the free state of Ohio: "She was sent out one morning to make purchases and never returned, but found a happy home, I trust, on English soil." Although we enjoy imagining good's triumph over evil, successful escapes were far too few. Most ended in failure for the simple reason stated by slaveholder William Dunbar in 1780: "Ketty came home this morning of herself, finding it uncomfortable lodging in the woods." Ketty must have weighed her options during the night and decided that hunger, cold and no real escape plan were worse than the expected whipping. Don't make the mistake of thinking this first week's block was a code or form of communication on the Underground Railroad. The block was given the name in 1935 and Carrie Hall did not mention slavery or the Civil War at all in her description. We are using a traditional block and a fanciful name to commemorate the Underground Railroad and escape from slavery. These symbolic patterns will have a label each week, as will reproduction patterns that actually existed during the Civil War. Stitching the Block 8" Finished Block Rotary Cutting Cut squares 2-7/8": 6 light, 6 medium and 4 dark Cut each on the diagonal to make 12 light, 12 medium and 12 dark triangles [oops! that's 8 dark triangles] Piece the triangles into squares, following the shading in the block photo This story is taken from my 2006 book Facts and Fabrications: Unraveling the History of Quilts and Slavery. See page 68 for a 15" pattern. Click here for more information about the book: http://www.ctpub.com/productdetails.cfm?PC=1049 You can buy it as a bound book or a digital book. Read Eliza Potter's 1859 memoir of her life as a free black woman before the Civil War at Google Books. A Hairdresser's Experience in High Life Click here: http://books.google.com/books?id=ksYEAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=eliza+potter+hairdresser&source=bl&ots=-_yxJAyFuU&sig=FDg_CaF_X6FX0JuAWSgW-XhauiA&hl=en&ei=b7P_TLDFIIT7lwffwfihCA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CCcQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q&f=false
Lots more photos to come! I shot these in raw+jpeg, so now I have to figure out how to massage the white balance of raw photos. This is the grand prize winning quilt. They measured how much thread was used in thousands of miles. Today was mostly for shopping, but I'm going back this weekend to actually see the quilts.
The bargello technique can be used to create backgrounds for applique, to showcase landscape prints, and to use up your stash. In a previou...
Hi and Welcome Here is a free pattern of My Lil Bargello Please feel free to make as many as you like , this is copyrighted material so please do not sell pattern. You are free to link my pattern on your website. Thanks, Click on Pictures to enlarge Download Pattern Here
Make a scrappy granny squares quilt with this free tutorial. Free quilt pattern for your jelly rolls. Easy beginner friendly jelly roll quit pattern.
Just how much fabric do I need for my quilt back? A question we have all asked. Here are some quick guides that will help. It's always good to measure twice before purchasing fabric. These measurements are a good place to begin. Happy Quilting! :) -Sew Kind of Wonderful-
The final new pattern is Radio Way! I also love this one. It is fast & fun to make... since you know I like to get things done! Here is the back of the pattern. All the math for 4 sizes! Quilt Details Fabric is assorted. More info Below. Pattern - Radio Way Designed by me Quilted by Angela Walters Started on 8/5/11 Finished on 10/17/11 Quilt measures - 50" x 70" About the fabric. Most of the fabrics that I used are from 2 collections. -- Citron Grey by Michael Miller -- Metro Living by Robert Kaufman In addition to those I added in some black and white prints from my stash. I have a weakness for Black & White prints and have been collecting them for some time. I have over 50 and rarely use them, but decided this was the right project. If you want to make Radio Way similar to what mine looks like I suggest starting with those two collections and adding in some more B&W prints from your stash or favorite quilt shop! {If someone makes a similar kit I'll post the info for you!... hint hint to shops out there!} Ready for the outtakes? When my brother was here we also took Radio Way out with us in hopes of shooting the cover. The quilt actually wasn't bound yet... but you can't really tell unless you look closely! ...but one thing you can see is a big fold a little more than half way down! It drove me crazy! I'm usually good about pressing quilts before photographing them but since I grabbed this at the last minute...unbound & all I forgot! Here I am chatting with a fellow photographer. Brad & I drove to the peak for these photos... this woman walked/hiked up. I did the walk/hike the next day & my legs killed me for a few days!! {But the place is so beautiful and I did enjoy the hike while I did it.} This was probably my favorite... If it wasn't for that fold this might have been the cover. Here is a peek at the back. Once the binding was a few days later on I headed to the beach. Because the quilt is mostly yellow, white & grey it just felt like it blended in with the sand. Ok... back in the car and off to another beach... yes another one. {It is nice to live in Cali!} Location #3.... I tried the rocks over by the water.. no luck. Eventually I ended up taking a bunch on an old piece of wood & ended up with the cover shot you see above. It was WAY more photos & locations than usual... but worth it! All four new patterns will be available starting 12/1. © Blog post written by Julie Herman For more information visit http://www.jaybirdquilts.com/
