Deborah Louie sets herself apart in the quilting world by taking advantage of all of those stitches on your sewing machine.

Imagine my excitement when I learned Renee Nanneman (fabric designer for Andover and publisher for Need'lLove) chose my Cotton Daisies pattern to create this beautiful quilt using her new fabric line, Beehive. And...it's hanging in the Andover booth at Quilt Festival in Houston! Cotton Daisies quilt pattern can be found on my website: Laughyourselfintostitches.com Digital Downloads and Mailed Patterns Renee was so gracious to take a couple photos for me and i asked her to make sure she was in each picture!! She is the kindest person! Renee added a gold flange to her Cotton Daisies quilt, which adds such a nice touch! The quilting is gorgeous too! I can't take any credit for it...but whoever quilted this for Renee...it's wonderful! Here is my Cotton Daisies quilt. I literally pulled fabrics from my stash to make this and when i saw Renee's quilt, oh my gosh!! I loooove the softness of her Beehive fabrics! And the pattern cover...showing an alternative colorway...i think this quilt has soooo many color options! Looking for the pattern? I have it available in instant pdf's or mailed copies. Find them in My Etsy Shop And if you wait a bit, (Renee is at market right now) I bet she'll be offering some Cotton Daisies kits using her Beehive fabrics/pattern included! Thanks for stopping by! Learn, Share, Quilt! ~karen

Quick Machine Sew Hexagon Flower Quilt Block tutorial is about how to sew hexagon flower with sewing machine, quick method to shorten time spent on quilting

Riley Blake Designs, Bee in my Bonnet, Lori Holt, Prairie Quilt Seeds Flower No.1 Block Kit- Kit includes the Prairie Quilt Seeds Flower No. 1 Quilt Pattern and Prairie fabrics for the 10.5" x 20.5" block.

Turn fabric scraps into beautiful quilted flowers with a sew-and-flip piecing technique easy enough for beginning quilters to master. Tutorial from NewQuilters.com. #easyquiltblocks #foundationpiecing #rosequiltblock #quiltingforbeginners

Beginner's Applique Tutorial #2 -- Teach yourself the time honored art of beautiful hand applique! This pattern has step by step instructions with lots of diagrams to describe as well as illustrate how to do basic multiple piece hand applique. You also get an applique pattern for the flower shown as well as a set of instructions to turn your block into a small quilt or shoulder bag. This pattern teaches you how to take a pattern, in this case a flower, and prepare six different pieces of fabric, nestle them back together into one unit that fits like a glove and is super easy. This is Darcy's unique technique and won't be found anywhere else. Pattern #2 also includes instructions for a shoulder bag and a small quilt. Applique Tutorial #1 is a completely different lesson. The instructions take you through the process of marking your fabric easily and accurately without a lightbox, clipping, the needleturn applique process, and embellishing with embroidery including the eye and Darcy's unique knotted buttonhole stitch. Whether you are a beginner or an advanced applique person, you will learn some useful and unique methods from these patterns. Instructions for the assembly of a baby bunny quilt are also included in pattern #1 for when you finish your applique bunny block. This is one of the classes that I regularly teach and sometimes I have class kits left over. The kit contains everything you need to make the shoulder bag including needles, freezer paper, beads, hardware, the tutorial pattern, and fabric.

The possibilities are endless! I've been wanting to make a simple Grandmother’s Flower Garden quilt for a while. Well, there’s no time like the present! A few weeks ago, I worked up a couple of pillows trying out my layout ideas for this simplified Grandmother’s Flower Garden. I loved this soft palette so much I couldn’t wait to see it as a quilt! This quilt is so easy and fast, even a very early beginner could do it, and it would make a great weekend project! This is all done with just one cut

It certainly has been awhile since I've share some client quilts and talked about them. I have quite a few to share with you today, hope you enjoy taking another look at these gorgeous quilts. - Joleene - Joleene, one of my dear friends and the creator of "Sew Red Glasses", made this gorgeous color wheel. She made it just before this years Home Machine Quilting Show, which is in Salt Lake City Utah each year. She had a booth and gave a couple of demonstrations each day on the main stage. She used this color wheel to teach the values of color. I am so proud of Joleene and all she has done to make her idea a reality and how well she is doing! Her glasses have been in the top 50 notions for Moda's United Notions for awhile. Way to go Joleene! Joleene gave me complete creative control for the quilting on this one. I quilted right around the edges on each of the color spokes, then decided to keep the inside of the spokes pretty simple with a double line triangle. I didn't want the quilting to distract the ability to look at the colors with the glasses and see the values. It turned out pretty cool the dimension that it added. To make the spokes pop and to give the background some personality, I decided on swirl pebble feather all over freehand design, similar to what I did on Denise's "Bloom". Which made the colors and spoke's really stand out. Plus it does look pretty cool to look at the background through the Sew Red Glasses. A few more views! Really LOVE this one! Thanks, Joleene! Always a joy to quilt for you~! - Bridget - Bridget is one of the sweetest clients I have. Always so great to see her and get to quilt for her. This is a mini quilt or table topper, and was super fun to quilt. I started with the center star lines, to enhance the log cabin star, and then it just kind of went from there. Doing the four corner star blocks, just like I did on my Apple Pie in the Sky quilt. Then I added the border quilting, and thought I was finished. But, as I looked at it more I wanted something behind the center star to finish it off. That's when I decided to try the diagonal lines...love how it turned out! Hope you love it too, Bridget. One thing I try and do with quilts when I take pictures, is to capture them in natural light. The colors of the fabrics show up the best, as well as the detail of the piecing and quilting. The texture of the quilting just pops!!!! And, of course creating texture on quilts through the quilting, is my favorite part of quilting. It helps each quilt come to life. I love what I do!! - Jane - Jane is the Moda rep that comes to meet with my mom and aunt Kristin for their online fabric store, Sisters and Quilters. I get to sit with them when she comes and see all the fun fabrics that are coming out in the coming months. It has been fun getting to know Jane. She's so busy traveling I don't know how she has time to sew. She brought this with her one day, and we were all blown away~! It is such a gorgeous quilt. I had quilted for her once before this, and just like the last one she wanted a lot of detail. It was an honor to quilt something so beautiful! Because I wanted to make the circled star design the focus of the quilt, I did an all over swirl feather design in the background. I love the textured it added, and how the light picks it up in these pictures. I doodled out this design on paper beforehand, just to see how it would flow together and I loved it. Quilted out even better than my drawings on the quilt. If you look closely, there is a double lined diamond like shape in the center of the star. A feather with a swirl in each of the star points, and line bursts in the background behind the star. Thanks, Jane! Such a treat to quilt for you! - Jeanne - I have wanted to quilt a "Swoon" quilt, pattern by Camille Roskelley, for quite awhile and was thrilled when Jeanne brought this to me. I must say I knew the blocks were big, but they are HUGE! So big that I cant quilt one entire block at a time on my machine, as I can only quilt around 18", and these are 24" big. I love the size of them though, totally worth having to roll the quilt more often. This is such a fun pattern to make! I made a mini version back at the beginning of July...now I want to make the quilt. haha! Especially after quilting this one for Jeanne. Jeanne made this for one of her granddaughters that just graduated this year. She told me to add some detail and do whatever I'd like. I have loved to use straight lines for the quilting to enhance all the pieces that go into a quilt. Which also gives me the opportunity to add some detail without making it too detailed or stiff. I started with the lines in the inside of the star, then added the wavy lines in the outside diamond shapes. Got the idea from one of my awesome longarm quilting friends, Tiffany from Red Chair Quilts! Which added some awesome texture throughout the quilt, thanks Tiffany!!! Love the light picking up all that texture... I added more lines back and forth behind the star, and then lines and curves in each of the surrounding angular pieces. Finished off the background with some double arch's like a cathedral window quilt, and some ribbon candy quilting in the sashing. Other than the center of the star and the lines in the outside pieces (green ones in this picture), everything else I did freehand. Jeanne picked a light polka dotted fabric, and I'm so glad she did... The texture that shows up on the back of this quilt is divine! I love every square inch. Each piece of the quilt really pops!!! Love love love it! - Joleene - This is another quilt from Joleene. Love the bright colors and textures of this Bullseye flower quilt! Even though the quilting is super simple it really adds to the over all texture of the quilt. Which now that Joleene has washed it and helped the raw edge rag and fray a little more, I'm sure that texture is even better. We decided on a swirl quilted in the center of each flower and some stippling in the background. I decided on the loops in the leaves, which was just enough to add a little something extra to the quilt. I quilted the ribbon candy design in the inner border and a alternating leaf in the outer border to finish it off. Love these scrappy flowers! Love the angle of the picture below, shows the texture of the bullseye layers on each of the flowers. - Julia and Penny - Julia and Penny worked on this quilt of Julia's together to display at "My Girlfriends Quilt Shoppe" here in Logan, Utah. I cant remember the pattern name or designer, but give them a call, I'm sure they could help you. They used their Baby Lock sewing machine to machine applique around each of those intricate pieces. These two ladies amaze me, and it is always so fun to quilt for them. I wish you could each see this quilt in person...if you're local you can! The flowers, pots, birds, bugs, gloves, rain boots, and even garden hose and tools complete the detail of this quilt. Their fabric choices are beautiful and really enhance the pattern. Beautiful job, ladies! Like this basket I tried to quilt enough, but not too much. I little echo in the flowers, some lines in the basket base, and then of course the pebble swirl in the background of the whole quilt. To enhance each section, I quilted the ribbon candy design in the blue borders and a simple cross hatch in the checkered red and white border. Love how the topiary balls turned out with some simple swirls. Its always fun to add some detail to flower pots, and this topiary pot turned out so cool. I started with a pinstripe vertical line and then added the diagonal pinstripe lines, which created the diamond cross hatching look. - Kim - Always so fun to see my friend Kim, get to visit, and then quilt for her. She made this "Lucky" quilt, pattern by Camille Roskelley, out of a Modern Roses layer cake by Stephanie Ryan from Moda. The colors of the fabrics are so soft and pretty, great choice Kim! I added some ribbon candy quilting to the border and some double arch's to the background. To add some depth to the stars I quilted a diamond shape with a line down the center in all of the white parts of the star, and then the wavy lines in the colored part of the stars to add some more texture. Love the complete look of this quilt. - Kristin - My Aunt Kristin from Sisters and Quilters made this sweet "Hugs" quilt for one of my cousins that just had a baby girl in July. Her nursery colors are navy and grey, and this quilt is perfect! Such a classy sweet look. I quilted a petal inside of each of the blocks with a dot chain in the sashing. Because the inner navy border is thin and there was enough quilting surrounding it, I left it unquilted. Finished it off with ribbon candy quilting design in the outside border. Love the texture pictured here. - LaRee - The quilting on LaRee's rainbow chevron is simple, but the texture turned out super fun! I did a line going from point to point on each of the chevron angles, then went back with another line above and below which helped create the alternating arrowhead look. Then I quilted a vertical back and forth loop weaving up and down, in the back ground. Finished it off with a ribbon candy design in the outside border. Close ups and views of the texture. - Mary - Mary made this sweet quilt for her mom, for a surprise birthday party her dad threw for her. He asked her and her sisters to make their mom's gift, and even suggested to Mary that she make a quilt. A quilt is something her mom has never had of her own, and Mary made such a sweet one! Each block is quite detailed, and Mary did such a great job! We initially talked about quilting something in the sashing around the blocks, but after I quilted the petal looking lines and flower petal centers, I asked her if we could leave them unquilted. It made the blocks pop, and also allowed the line design to link from block to block. I did quilt in the ditch around each block to help the sashing stand out even more. Close up below. Here is a view of the back, you can see the interlocking cool design...definitely one of my fav's! - Penny - Sweet Penny has been a friend of mine for a few years, and it is always exciting to hear that her family continues to grow as new grandbabies come into this world. Her only daughter is having her first baby, and its a girl! Penny is super excited, and I am for her. She made this super sweet baby quilt, didn't want too much quilting because the back is minky. Inside each of the ric rac on point blocks, I quilted a simple flower. Added my favorite border design, the ribbon candy, and then finished it off with the swirl in the border. To add a little something to the swirl, I added a leaf on each one. It turned out so soft and pretty! Penny hope you enjoy snuggling that new bundle of joy in this quilt! - Sherry - This bright fun quilt was made by Sherry! She has made several other quilts for other people, and finally made this "Firework" quilt for herself. Pattern is by Camille Roskelley. Love the texture I can create with the quilting in quilts like this! One thing I love to do is try and quilt blocks like this in one continuous motion, without having to stop or restart the thread. And, it took me a few blocks, but I figured out how to do it on this one. I used a great A1 quilting ruler that I got from Judi at Green Fairy Quilts, for all the straight lines except the ones in the background, those are done freehand by me. I love the angles and lines that I was able to create and play with on this quilt. Tried to stay with the firework theme of the quilt. - Susan - Susan made this beautiful quilt as a gift for someone...that someone is certainly very lucky! Susan wanted some detail, but not over quilted. I love how the simple quilting on each alternating block fits so well together and plays off the elegant design. The colors and fabrics Susan chose, are so stunning. She also does a beautiful job piecing each quilt I quilt for her. Thanks, Susan! - Tara - Tara from "Rad and Happy" saw some quilts I posted pictures of on my Instagram and emailed me to quilt for her. This is the first quilt that she sent my way. It is called "Rebel Quilt" and the pattern design is by "Libs Elliot". Tara usually quilts all her throw size and smaller quilts on her regular sewing machine, amazing huh?!?! This one was a little to big, and she was also about ready to have her handsome baby boy...so she entrusted me with quilting it. Tara's quilting style, which I LOVE, is very simple. So, I wanted to keep things simple. I love how it turned out! There really was no rhyme or reason to the quilting, except that I quilted the same design in the same blocks. So, in all the large half square triangles I quilted the double lined diamonds, and alternated the direction depending on the angle of the triangles. I repeated the same designs in each of the same blocks throughout. I shipped this back to Tara in New Mexico, which was sad to not see her reaction. She loved it and shared it several times on her Rad and Happy Instagram! I sure love what I do, and the gift of social media that lets me broaden my quilting audience. Thanks so much, Tara!! Hope you enjoyed another view of these stunning quilts! Which one is your favorite? On each quilt I used 8020 winline cotton/poly blend batting, unless batting was provided from my client. I also used on each quilt a color coordinating Perma Core thread 30 tex from A&E. Thanks for reading, Happy Sewing to you~! ~ leisha 

For the more traditional types, country quilts are the best to bring that homey, rustic feel to a room or furniture.

"Little Blooms" by Irene Blanck is a truly scrappy quilt that allows you to pick and pull from anywhere in your stash.

Probably as a result of all the napkin stitching, I have managed to develop tendonitis in my left hand which requires a rest from any hand sewing until the thumb heals. I thought this might be a good time to post some of my vintage quilt booklets, so I have started the process of scanning the page

The photo above © Terri Staats If you are looking for a simple and charming patchwork project, you might want to try this flower with a stem block. It is easy to make and can be used to create lovely patchwork quilts with a floral theme. You can find different patchwork ideas to make your own quilt patterns using this block. One idea is to alternate the flower blocks with solid color blocks to create contrast and highlight the flowers. You can follow the tutorial step by step at the link below and enjoy making this beautiful patchwork block. Full Post: Flower Quilt Blocks

Inside your Quiltmania Magazine n°154, meet talented quilters from the Netherlands, numerous Indian snake charmers, and quilts from the Houston Festival!

Leaves, vines, stems and trellis. Its a real hectic layout with all the intertwined stems. I have had this great piece of fabric with music sheets printed on it and thought it might work as a nice backdrop for the Clematis flowers. The light gold print and the plan soft field act as a bit of sunlight that might filter through and be seen almost as backlit. That's the plan of course, but we will see how it progresses. I love raw edge applique, its a freedom to go beyond and experiment, no rules, and no boundary. My Baby Lock is getting a workout sewing down all these fused stems and leaves. I have some super great Sulky threads that come in variegated colors and they really help to add depth and texture to the batik and other fabrics I use here. I didn't do a color correction on this shot, it looks very dull and lifeless. Right now I have finally finished with stitching the vines and leaves, and have fused on the flowers and given them decorative stitching too with more of that great Sulky thread. Now that its quilted it really took on some life, it just sings SUMMER and life in the garden. The flowers have an extra layer of fabric under them which gives them more puffiness making for a 3D type effect. I use this process quite a bit on my main focus flowers. I call my effect a faux trapunto. I used meandering quilting for the wall hanging and took this side shot to try and let you see the dimension of this piece. It measures 21x27 inches and its a great size for a wall, almost like a window you are looking through to the outside flowers on a trellis. Its available on Etsy. too! Etsy: TimelessDog Hope you enjoyed the walk through the process.

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Learn how to use baking paper as an aid for your free-motion quilting. Tutorial includes instructions on how to quilt a stylised flower motif suitable for square blocks. Free downloadable template provided.

Bowling Green Lane in Albrighton, Shropshire is the home of David Austin Roses: a family farm surrounded by fields of beautiful roses that have inspired generations of gardeners around the world. The late David Austin OBE - always Mr A. to his staff - started breeding roses in the 1940s, when he was just a teenager. He released his first rose, Constance Spry, in 1961 and during his long life he released over 200 English Roses. They combine the grace and scented beauty of old-fashioned blooms wit

I’ve just spent the past two hours trying to set up some kind of graduated layout using the 2″ squares I cut from the jellyroll I bought from Whims. Not an easy task I discovered –…

Magnolia, a paper pieced pattern by The Designer's Workshop. This was by far the most complex paper pieced project I have done. I really like this technique. I've also sewn several Karen K. Stones quilts as well as a few from Judy Niemeyer.

Patchwork quilt patterns - 5 free downloads by Tilda to help you create the most beautiful quilts from beginner upwards in pretty fabrics

A long time ago I purchased the pattern "Tessie" designed by Amy McClellan/Under The Garden Moon. These flowers are super easy to do. There are 2 sizes of flowers and I chose the small version. This quilt pattern is perfect for small scraps. I had so much fun finding bits of fabric that looked nice together. All the background pieces are different and no 2 flowers are the same. Ridiculously fun to make!! I love the kittens in the background of this one. I think this one is my favorite. I couldn't resist just a touch of fussy cutting..... .....because fussy cutting is fun too. I love this digitally printed border fabric, "Joy of Life" by Sylvie Demers, and to preserve the selvage info I used it as part of the hanging sleeve. I dare the quilt police to come after me for it! I sewed a line of machine quilting from the front to hold the lower edge of the sleeve to the quilt (because I really didn't want to do it by HAND). The loose white part hanging down below the stitching won't unravel because...tada...it's the selvage. Yay. For the quilt label, I made one of the large size flowers and sewed it onto the backing fabric before quilting. There are so many of my favorite fabrics in this quilt!!! (Yes, gecko fans, there IS a gecko in this quilt too!) Linking to Finish it Friday at CrazyMomQuilts.

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Bon Bon #5 Hand dyed and commercial cottons and silks Fused and machine quilted. 30.5 x30.5" Ginkos for Judy H...

I just finished this little quilt for a customer... She wanted me to make the flowers look more like pansies. I'm hoping I achieved her request... This is how I started. Then I added some yellow thread... Still needs some background fill in the white... And finished... One more... The colors changed in each picture as the sun got lower in the sky...

It certainly has been awhile since I've share some client quilts and talked about them. I have quite a few to share with you today, hope y...

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My mission this year to use up as many scraps as I can continues with this baby quilt. I used scraps from previous baby quilts to make the string blocks and kept the colours fairly pastel. Under construction..... .....onto the frame..... ....and my favourite part, the quilting! I decided to jazz up the quilt a little with these padded 3D flowers. They are very securely sewn down. For this though I used my small Janome 601 in FMQ mode. I'm very pleased with how this little quilt turned out. Small projects are fun and quick and usually, like this one, completely unplanned. They just happen. Love my quilting life! See you next time, thanks for visiting. Rhianon.

This beautiful pattern features 20 flowers each inspired by vintage botanicals. Mix a variety of low volume fabrics in patchwork blocks to create the backgrounds for these delicately appliqued flowers. The pattern includes full size drawings and detailed photos of each flower along with detailed instructions for both applique and quilt construction. It is structured as a block of the month but sells as 1 complete pattern set. It is a one of a kind heirloom quilt that will forever adorn your home.Approx. 56" x 67"Materials Needed: Applique background: 1/3 yds of 10 low volume printsFor applique: 6 FQs (greens), 3 FQs (purples), 4 FQs (aquas/blues), 3 FQs (golds), 6 FQS (pinks/corals), 4 FQs (blues/periwinkles)1/2 yd for horizontal sashing strips5/8 yd for vertical sashing strips1 3/4 yd for side borders2 1/4 yds for outer borders5/8 yard for binding3 3/4 yards for backingClick here to see all of our Verna Mosquera patterns.