Charity quilt pattern

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Quilters often give their time and talents to make quilts for charity. These easy quilts offer instructions for multiple sizes, allowing you to access the correct size for the charity of your choice.

Quilters often give their time and talents to make quilts for charity. These easy quilts offer instructions for multiple sizes, allowing you to access the correct size for the charity of your choice.

I finished my little charity quilt. Normally I would not do anything too involved on theses charity quilts...not because they are for charity but simply because I am volunteering my time and resources to quilt them. However I absolutely fell in love with the last charity quilt. Not sure what it is about this one, but I really like the very simple design and the colours of that quilt. The fabric reminds me of something but I cannot quite place it. Such a pretty quilt and nicely straight. So I decided to do an edge to edge design over it. If you never looked into this check out the designs at Urban Elementz...so many choices and I am not sure whether I mentioned this before but there is also a whole section of some 50 plus designs that you can use for free. Really appreciate this. For this design though I chose a panto that I had bought from Urban Elementz - the self print Cloud Nine Design from Patricia E. Ritter. I think that is the third design that I purchased from Patricia E. Ritter. Coincidence or maybe her design appeal to me because of their openness (for my purpose I do need the design to be a bit more open). I have mentioned in previous blog posts (e.g. HERE and HERE) how exactly I go about doing this on a sitdown longarm machine. I use Golden Threads paper to trace rows of the design. this time though I wanted this to go all a bit quicker and I used 8 sheets of Golden Threads paper and stitched the traced design through that rather than tracing off the design 8 times. As you can see I trace with a blue erasable marker. This is because when you rip out the paper there are always little specks left in the stitching and I just want to be careful not to transfer any markings onto the quilt. A brief look at what this looks like stitched through I remove the paper as I go along, except for the last bit which I need for the alignment of the next row I have done this design before so it went rather quickly. However, this time I did a bit of a stuff up in row 3...it was getting close to dinner time and I was hurrying along placing a row onto the quilt ready to go for the next day. When I started it again the next day, my natural perfectionism was a life saver. I made a very sloppy petal about 2 swirls in and decided to take it out...only to realise when turning to the back that I had aligned my row on the previous already stitched one, so I had 2 swirls stitched twice! I was happy that I discovered it and proceeded to take my stitching out which is something you can absolutely do with the paper, however you have to be super careful. The paper is wafer thin and rips easily. Complicating whas the fact that I had stitched my design through the 8 layers with a very large needle which made the paper even more likely to just split. After I removed all the stiches, put my frazzled paper in place You can see here how the paper is starting to split. I decided to ignore that bit and stitched as best as I can around those split papers. Worked fine as I was used to the movement of the design by that stage, but did make me somehow anxious, as it is very hard to see how it is turning out with all the paper on top. In general I follow the lines as best as I can however this particular design is stitched with a little bit of speed...I can imagine that on a longarm on the frame you would really lean into that which also happens to a lesser extent on the sitdown, so lines are not always followed precisely. I have learned not to worry about that too much, however I do make sure that I hit the points correctly as when I align the next row, I can be assured that they are in the right place. In addition I check how my row aligns against the pieced seam lines...not measuring, however having a bit of a look whether I am still straight and whether design elements hit the same spot as I go along. Works absolutely perfectly every single time. The quilt looks just lovely ...and the back Now I can say with some confidence that none of the swirls would be exactly the same, however it reads as consistent and looks absolutely spectacular. So happy with how this turned out. Altogether I used 9 rows to quilt this. Had to trace one more design to finish off and must say I do prefer to stitch on the drawn line rather than those little dot lines, however it was much quicker of course, using the stitched through rows. So satisfying. Karin

I suppose it is inevitable, isn’t it? Many of us need ideas on how to use our scraps or pieces to make quick and easy charity quilts. Let me show you some common ones I use or HAVE used. 1. Simple squares in two colors For example, yellow and green or pink and purple - here are two of my early

I set a goal for 2018 to make 52 charity quilts in 52 weeks. Join the community and share your charity makes too!

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I suppose it is inevitable, isn’t it? Many of us need ideas on how to use our scraps or pieces to make quick and easy charity quilts. Let me show you some common ones I use or HAVE used. 1. Simple squares in two colors For example, yellow and green or pink and purple - here are two of my early

Here's a free charity quilt pattern using a block I like to call Brick. - Free Charity Quilt Pattern - Brick - Quilting at BellaOnline

Hi Quilting Friends - I'm soooooo excited to share my FINISHED Heartfelt Quilt Along with Fat Quarter Shop !!! I loooove this quilt so much!!!! Plus OVER $100,000 has been raised for Make-A-Wish, which is amazing! Click here to donate directly to Make-A-Wish Central & South Texas campaign. The Heartfelt Quilt is HUGE at 76.5" x 84.5" ... lucky my teenager has become an awesome quilt holder! Heartfelt Quilt Supplies: clickable links to Fat Quarter Shop below Heartfelt Quilt PDF Pattern Heartfelt Project Bag One Fine Day Fabric Collection - designed by Bonnie & Camille for Moda Fabrics - I used half-yard cuts plus (1) Layer Cake for variety 5.5 yards - Cross Weave Black on Grey (Background) #12119-53 Using Moda Cross Weave Black on Grey for the background is amazing and really makes the bright colors of One Fine Day Fabric Collection pop! I really enjoyed quilting different heart themed blocks each month! I love making quilts with different blocks ... the variety is so fun! PLUS the Heartfelt Quilt is reversible! The pattern includes a super cute pieced backing with a giant star/heart! I changed the backing a bit as I didn't order extra Moda Cross Weave Black on Grey for the backing- luckily I had a lovely floral from Smitten designed by Bonnie and Camille and it was perfect! Did you join in and make a Heartfelt Quilt too??? It's a fabulous pattern provided by Fat Quarter Shop! Download the Heartfelt Quilt PDF Pattern - HERE Be sure to follow me on Instagram @ABitofScrapStuff and on my A Bit of Scrap Stuff Blog for more fabric fun! Have a great day and happy quilting and stitching! Melanie This post contains affiliate links. Thank you for supporting A Bit of Scrap Stuff. My family appreciates it!

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These are scraps left from Under the Big Top that I made last summer for a great nephew. This is a charity quilt and I also have learned a neat way to sew the binding on entirely by machine. Here is a close up!! These are leftover pieces from the Chevron quilt I made for another great nephew earlier this year. What shall I do?? I am pretty fond of strippy quilts so I started putting pieces in rows, cutting up a few larger pieces and all of a sudden I had a cool finished quilt! I am afraid my binding stretched the edges a little. I like this basket weave pantograph for this quilt, giving it a contemporary feel to go along with the colors. And here is another machine sewn binding! I used the above pattern for the next three quilts. So quick and easy and cool results! Again, leftover fabrics from a quilt I made last year. Isn't it amazing how much fabric is leftover sometimes, even from a kit?! Another machine sewn binding. . . more details. . . and, a pieced back - just happened to have these fabrics in the closet, waiting for a use. This began with a pile of scraps as I was cleaning out my closet and giving fabric away a couple of weeks ago. I began pressing it, cutting it up in rectangles, added some fun polka dots and bright fabrics and all of a sudden I had two more baby quilts made. I used swirls on both of them - one a pantograph and one freehand. The above quilt binding was a bright turquoise. I did buy this cool backing drastically reduced at a quilt shop as I realized the colors were perfect for these quilt tops in the making. Looks like this is the pantograph! Finished with a binding of sunflowers like the back! Back two! Whew, I think I'll take a break and rest!

The Precious quilt block is the last free block pattern for the Heartfelt Charity Quilt Along. Although it isn’t my final quilt block. I have one last quilt block to make. Since this is my second to last quilt block I only need to make 4 of these quilt blocks. So I chose my favorites and

Do you have extra scraps collecting dust in your quilting studio? Here's a quick, easy way to use up old scraps and do some good at the same time!

The easy charity quilt I made for Craft Hope is finished and on its way. I love how it turned out! Craft Hope is an organization that partners with different organizations to collect handmade items for donation. I know lots of crafters like making items to donate and there's always a demand for patterns for

Charity quilt pattern

Learn how to make these Amazing Potato Chip blocks with scraps to create a beautiful scrappy quilt. Free Printable Tutorial Download!

One of our favorite groups of quilts at QuiltCon is the Community Outreach category. Working with a team of quilters to create a finished and cohesive group project can be challenging. This year's theme was angles and a citrus inspired color palette. As an added bonus, this year the Modern Quilt Guild provided an oppor

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I suppose it is inevitable, isn’t it? Many of us need ideas on how to use our scraps or pieces to make quick and easy charity quilts. Let me show you some common ones I use or HAVE used. 1. Simple squares in two colors For example, yellow and green or pink and purple - here are two of my early

Welcome to June friends!…today is another Bountiful block release day. =) Today we are making two Butterflies and Posy blocks. What a great, springy block!

Last week the PCQ Community Service committee met and we scheduled the sew day projects through the spring. Several of the agencies we give quilts to need twin bed size which they use as actual bedspreads, so this year we're focusing on twin size quilts. For February we will be kitting up and sewing the new Four Patch pattern I've developed. My top will be the teaching sample for the sew day. We've been setting aside fabrics from the club's stash that are large enough cuts for borders. With the one shown here, we got lucky and it was an actual border print stripe. Most of the fabrics we've set aside are just random larger scale prints. The committee will pull coordinating fabrics to go with the borders and cut the squares for the kits. I've also been spending a lot of time writing the patterns for the projects we'll work on this year. Each kit will have the pattern included. I'll update the Free Charity Patterns tab above when I get a chance, once I'm sure the pattern is complete and correct. One of the committee members is currently testing it. Link up: Small Quilts and Doll Quilts

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I spent my evenings last week quilting with a blog reader Marion. Well under complete disclosure I wasn’t actually quilting “with” her as in both of us being in the same room at…

Quilters often give their time and talents to make quilts for charity. These easy quilts offer instructions for multiple sizes, allowing you to access the correct size for the charity of your choice.

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Hi Quilting Friends - I'm soooooo excited to share my FINISHED Heartfelt Quilt Along with Fat Quarter Shop !!! I loooove this quilt so much!!!! Plus OVER $100,000 has been raised for Make-A-Wish, which is amazing! Click here to donate directly to Make-A-Wish Central & South Texas campaign. The Heartfelt Quilt is HUGE at 76.5" x 84.5" ... lucky my teenager has become an awesome quilt holder! Heartfelt Quilt Supplies: clickable links to Fat Quarter Shop below Heartfelt Quilt PDF Pattern Heartfelt Project Bag One Fine Day Fabric Collection - designed by Bonnie & Camille for Moda Fabrics - I used half-yard cuts plus (1) Layer Cake for variety 5.5 yards - Cross Weave Black on Grey (Background) #12119-53 Using Moda Cross Weave Black on Grey for the background is amazing and really makes the bright colors of One Fine Day Fabric Collection pop! I really enjoyed quilting different heart themed blocks each month! I love making quilts with different blocks ... the variety is so fun! PLUS the Heartfelt Quilt is reversible! The pattern includes a super cute pieced backing with a giant star/heart! I changed the backing a bit as I didn't order extra Moda Cross Weave Black on Grey for the backing- luckily I had a lovely floral from Smitten designed by Bonnie and Camille and it was perfect! Did you join in and make a Heartfelt Quilt too??? It's a fabulous pattern provided by Fat Quarter Shop! Download the Heartfelt Quilt PDF Pattern - HERE Be sure to follow me on Instagram @ABitofScrapStuff and on my A Bit of Scrap Stuff Blog for more fabric fun! Have a great day and happy quilting and stitching! Melanie This post contains affiliate links. Thank you for supporting A Bit of Scrap Stuff. My family appreciates it!

Share your love of quilting in a meaningful way. Quick & Easy Charity Quilts includes everything you'll need to make a great quilt for a favorite charity or choose the optional color way provided for each pattern to stitch a quilt for everyday use. These fun and easy patterns are so versatile! Each quilt pattern can easily be made and donated to support a worthy cause or an individual in need. the handy awareness ribbon color guide will help you select the perfect color pallet for your charitable project. We've also included information to help you find local organizations who can sue the projects you create.

I wasn’t crazy about these blocks last night. So I gave it some thought today and came up with a couple ideas to fix them after I identified what I didn’t like. Here tonight’s ver…

I've been on a roll with the charity quilts this year. It's a great way to practice quilting or try out new things. Here are the two I finished this week. The first one is a more girly quilt. I quilted one of my favorite patterns ever, Ginger Blossoms, on it. The second is the second I Spy quilt I made with some bug fabrics I'd had forever. I tried a new quilting pattern, Cobblestones, on it to complement the black fabric. It's very hard to see, but the black fabric has small circles on it. This quilting pattern requires a lot of precision that this quilt did not quite have. Also, I used a gray thread that is virtually invisible in the backing fabric but it shows up like white on this quilt top. It's not quite the look I was going for, but I feel like using a black thread would not have looked very good through the colorful fabrics. What color would you have used? I just love the cute zebra print on the back. Do you remember back in April when I shared pictures of a guild quilt that I quilted and bound? It won first place at the fair! This one is a fundraiser for the local branch of the Dolly Parton Imagination Library. The pattern and fabrics are by Heather Givans of Crimson Tate. And next up for me is, you guessed it, another charity quilt! I am quilting another guild quilt. This one raises money for kids in foster care. What charities do you quilt for? In other news, my husband's single jalapeño plant has continued to produce loads of peppers. I made him some pickled jalapeños the other day. This is a refrigerator pickle recipe, so no processing. He says they are good. I always have to wonder if canning/pickling recipes I find online are actually safe. Sometimes the Ball Canning book just doesn't have a recipe that suits my needs though. Jalapeño refrigerator pickles. They look cloudy because they have condensation on the jars from taking them from the fridge to the counter for a photo. We got/renewed our passports last week and I just couldn't pass up buying some new stamps. I absolutely love fun stamps. No boring flags for me. I added frogs, Sesame Street, and the moon landing to my current inventory, which includes dragons, birds, and John Lennon. Good thing these are forever stamps, because I probably will have them for just about forever! I hope the person processing our Menards rebates enjoys them! 😜 I am still working away at getting my quilting website going. I'm just waiting on the logos and business card design to be finished by a person I found on Etsy. Linking with Sew Fresh Quilts, For the love of geese, and My Quilt Infatuation.

Charity quilt pattern

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Get all of the details on the Bountiful Charity Quilt Along Release 4. This month get the pattern for the butterfly and flower blocks.

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YAHOO!! I have charity quilts to share. Few blog things make me happier than when I have a charity quilt to share. These are from Sandra and her group of quilters. If you’re a regular blog…