Choose from Several Already-Coordinated Color Themes! This striking quilt is so beautiful and one you’ll be proud to call your own. The creative design is given texture and depth by the use of batiks, although small-scale prints will be lovely too. Any color theme is wonderful in the quilt. We have several examples to help …
Quilt by/ Vanessa Bogensberger https://www.quilt.today/2021/08/midnight-garden-quilt-pattern.html
Welcome to finish it up Friday! I finished my quilt! This one took me on quite a journey. It feels so personal and like such a milestone f...
It’s Great in Christmas Fabrics, Too! Depending on the fabrics you choose, this Nordic star quilt can be for the holidays or all winter. Crisp blue and white with a pop of red give it a beautiful wintry look to enjoy all season. Another color theme will be just as lovely. It’s easy to imagine …
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Hexagons carefully cut from a stripe. Maybe 1870-1890 British 1820–50. The Metropolitan Museum of Art Gift of Adele Pharo Azar, in memory of her late husband, Jemile Wehby Azar https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/229936 Inspired by the May quilt on my Metropolitan Museum kitchen calendar I've been looking at hexagon patchwork, seeing if there is anything new on sources, etc. The standard citation for first publication in the U.S. is still "1831 The American Girl's Book," in which it was called hexagon, six-sided or honey-comb patch-work. You can read this book at Google Books--- I had no idea it was a book, I always thought it was a magazine. https://www.google.com/books/edition/American_Girl_s_Book/WO0XAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=hexagon Design and text were copied in 1835 in Godey's Lady's Book---a magazine. By then Americans had been making the quilts for decades. Britons seem to have developed the style first. The earliest date-inscribed hexagon quilt found so far is attributed to Anna Ruggles of the British Isles, dated 1796 in the collection of International Quilt Museum. From Bridget Long's dissertation Anonymous Needlework https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/29849749.pdf The earliest date-inscribed American-made hexagon patchwork (an unfinished piece) has been dated by the newspaper templates as 1792-1803, attributed to Catherine and Susan Springer of New Castle County, Delaware. Of course, the papers could be earlier than the patchwork. Barbara Schaffer took detail photos when it was on display a few years ago. I also saw a list made about ten years ago by Lynne Z. Bassett, expert in early quilts. She noted: The Newark Museum holds an unfinished top dated 1793. The Bache family of Philadelphia holds a 1790s unfinished top. The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art holds a quilt made by Sarah Ewalt Spencer (1766−1842) of Bedford, Pennsylvania, acc.no.1982.165, dated 1794. In 1860 Peterson's Magazine explained the basics of making template patchwork (basting fabric over paper templates.) Tin for the basic reusable pattern, paper for the templates and scraps from the rag bag. Below a description of a quilt from the Huguenot Society of South Carolina. Suzette should not have cut up the deeds to the French land but paper WAS expensive. Author above makes a common error in confusing octagon (8 sides) with hexagon (6 sides.) Six sides---hexagon Pentagons (5 sides) and hexagons will tesselate. Octagons need another piece (square or triangle in the corners.) Winterthur Museum Detail of a hexagon center bordered with a field of octagon patchwork. Update: Louise Tiemann found an 1814 reference to tessellating patchwork in a London publication. In 1827 a Charleston newspaper was telling readers about hexagon quilts in England. I haven't seen any early instructions for what we'd call fussy cutting, centering the hexagon on a print figure. A spectacular piece In the collection of the Royal Ontario Museum in Canada. Their caption: Pieced quilt. Made in England; used in Barbados. 1800-1825.#949.259 Gift of Mr. and Mrs. R.J. Mercur. Barbados---quilts of the West Indies--- completely unexplored territory quilt history wise. At one time Barbados was the most prosperous of the British Caribbean colonies. More careful cutting. Some one was quite taken with an early roller-print style of "storm clouds" Similar print at the bottom in this one from Lila Laurette Carroll's collection. Detail from one from the Townsend-Pope family quilts of South Carolina that Sharon Pinka has been studying. Hexagon in a square from a New York sampler I own, early 1860s. Attributed to Hannah Wallis, Philadelphia DAR Museum Collection Susan Mueller recently posted pictures of a pair of blocks she was lucky enough to find at an American estate sale. They look to be block-prints---early 19th century. The paper foundations are newspapers dated 1800 to 1808. The papers show just enough information we can guess they were American-made. A 1791 New York directory lists "Reily, Terence, hatter, 36, Wall street." A Dr. Benjamin M. Stillman was a Revolutionary War soldier from Massachusetts An Elijah Bemis, born 1770, lived in Worcester, Massachusetts. Mid 20th-century American This intrepid quiltmaker probably called her design Grandmother's Flower Garden, a 20th-century name. What did their grandmothers' generation call the design? In 1856 "Katinka" published an American tale Abbie Nott & Other Knotts, in which a hexagon quilt is named: "Job's troubles, that is to say, innumerable bits of red, yellow, and vari-colored calico, cut in hexagonal form." See the bottom of the page for speculation as to who Katinka really was. Another possible name: Job's Patience. In 1868 Ella Wilson of Massachusetts won $1 with a Job's Patience quilt, perhaps a hexagon. Art Institute of Chicago https://www.artic.edu/artworks/158421/honeycomb-centre-quilt No doubt what she called the pattern. https://collections.rom.on.ca/objects/362783/pieced-quilt?ctx=fb17488f-3656-498e-a941-a0342cfd29e1&idx=5 Job's Troubles is an often-used nineteenth-century name.http://quilt1812warandpiecing.blogspot.com/2012/08/mosaic-patchwork.html Who was Katinka? Was she Walt Whitman wonders Roger Asselineau in The Evolution of Walt Whitman (University of Iowa Press, 1999.)
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A couple of weeks ago, I started a little scrap quilt using 2½” squares and leftover binding ends that I couldn’t seem to throw out. I showed my process for partial seams in making those super simple but interesting blocks in that week's blog post, Partial to Scraps!I made a total of sixteen blocks that ended up 6½” square. Now, to figure out a layout 🙂I decided on four rows of four blocks to make a square quilt. I thought it would be more interesting to put the blocks on point.… and that meant
Not a new quilt, but one I love. Made a couple of years ago. And horses. These are some of the 13 wild horses that were rescu...
...being not one thing or another, and certainly not the things they probably could have been. Continuing my inability to focus on Things I Said I Would Do, being distracted by Things That Seemed Like A Good Idea At The Time, here are a couple of quilty things that happened lately instead of things I've told some folks I would do for them. I mean, I will. Soon. Meanwhile.... First, a baby blanket for the cousin of a friend - kind of an odd color palate, but she gave me free rein on pattern and color, and I had been noodling with some orange-yellow-green-purple bits and bobs I had sitting around. At her wise suggestion I swapped purple for blue and in the final analysis, it's a cheery, bright, non-gender specific lil Broken Windows strip on a mottled Grunge white, with a cozy gray windowpane flannel on back + a strip of yellow 40s juvenile print flannel I inherited from the Estate of the Unknown Benefactress. Then there's this: a scrappy low-volume Rail Fence quilt with bonus Scrappy Rainbow Pinwheels - a super easy quilt for beginners, if you have a ton of semi-neutrals lying around and some bright squares. This has still not quite used up all those shirt scraps that made Chris and JJ's Trip Around the World quilt and also appeared in the Cap'n's Low volume Postage Stamps, lo these many years past. In fact, it was probably some of the first fabric in my stash, when I started a sewing class 7 years ago this fall. (Seven years! That's kind of nutty. I was thinking 2015 but, no, per this very blog, it was 2012. Yowza.) Below, you can see I used the blue-er shirts more centrally and as I got out to the edges it was more whites and grey-er ones. This has very little to do with a grand strategy and everything to do with that being how it got laid down on the Design Floor the first time around. Continuing a proud tradition of not having enough backing width by mere inches. Anyhoo, these are 2.5" x 6.5" strips with the 2.5" color squares sewn in diagonally - though, trickily, since the blades of the pinwheel need to be free to spin, you can't strip piece these because the colors are on the inside, not the outside, of the block, so you cut out all of the 6.5" lengths, add the colors, and then sew the Rail Fences together. It's great mindless sewing for summer baseball game "watching." (Go Cubs!) This quilting was a BIG DAMN DEAL for me - my first entirely free-motion machine quilted quilt, instead of just select easy-to-reach areas. I did wavy lines in the direction of the rails which, as it turns out, may have been kind of wasted effort and I could have just done it as an all-over pattern, because you can't really see how the wiggles change from Fence to Fence unless you're looking for it. But it was exciting to finish and I'm MUCH more comfortable with freehand wavy lines. I started with closer lines, almost a wood grain texture but soon discovered that was going to take me an ice age to finish, so loosened up a bit. That results in a nicer drape to the quilt anyway, IMO. Also, the binding: rainbow ombre! I dig how it looks, especially on the gray/black back. Cheery! Except maybe for the gray binding strip (centered on at one side - I just hadn't prepped enough of the rainbow stuff for binding and didn't care to go back and cut one more strip of it, when I had the gray binding already made for some previous project. Because I'm lazy. Or thrifty. Or whatever, it didn't happen. Then there's this odd raspberry cotton-candy colored confection which is just a basic Coin quilt (also called "Chinese Coin", "Roman Coin", and "Bar Quilt" - mine's more of a Bar, since I think coins are supposed to be narrower columns, and sometimes also different heights). (Why do people pronounce that "heighths"? I never understood that.) (Of course mine WOULD be a "Bar Quilt.") But the color scheme has been in my brain a lot lately - this pink-yellow-orange-purple series. Not sure why. Missing sunsets? Strong yen for sherbet? Trying to rekindle a childhood love of FruitStripe Gum? Maybe being in Houston this long has made me a secret Astros fan, but in 1983? Colors a little more true in the sunlight (if wrinkly) The only thing I could think to use for sashing (since I am quite bored with white and gray, for a change) was this very light blue, which is a linen texture from Henley Studio, which *kind of* sets it off perfectly and *kind of* makes it look like the colors ran in the wash, which they haven't (yet. But I guess now it doesn't matter if they do.) Finally, there's this unfortunate top, which probably needs several borders to make it a usable size.... except that it is wildly out of true, with these rows of wee 2" squares finishing up pretty dramatically different lengths, despite having the same count... uh, woops. At upper left, we find.... wait, WTF? So because this is not critical, it has been summarily wadded up and thrown in a corner until I have energy to fix it or take it apart for reconstituting some other way. Bleh. Looks better when you can't see the corner in question. These will likely be donated at some point - but first, I have to get them back to Illinois, because I will shortly be ending my stint at this gig in TX and heading off for ... somewhere else, tbd. And every time I move hotels/airbnbs/ accounts, I gotta pack up whatever giant mounds of fabric have accumulated in my pro tempore Sewing Studio, and shove it all into my teeny Mazda for schlepping to the next port of call. You'd think this constant upheaval would make me more conservative when I buy fabric in a temporary location, and force me to Kon Marie the crap outta my traveling selections, but.... then you'd remember who you were talking about, and you'd laugh and laugh. In my defense, there are some GREAT fabtic stores around here. In conclusion: I might not be doing what I've told myself sternly to do, but at least I'm sewing, and mental-health-wise, that's better than not sewing and waiting for The Right Inspiration to hit. I mean, these piles of fabric are not going to cut themselves into smaller pieces and sew themselves back together. Right? Right! Back to work! Except maybe I'll just take a bath for a bit, and check out Pinterest, in case there's anything VERY CRITICAL that I must make RIGHT AWAY. Linking up with Confessions of a Fabric Addict for Whoop it Up Friday ... er, Saturday.
Choose from Several Already-Coordinated Color Themes! This striking quilt is so beautiful and one you’ll be proud to call your own. The creative design is given texture and depth by the use of batiks, although small-scale prints will be lovely too. Any color theme is wonderful in the quilt. We have several examples to help …
I have always wanted to make a crazy quilt! http://www.crazyquilts.ca/CQGallery.html 'Crazy Quilts' were a fad that started in t...
52 of my favorite modern quilts from QuiltCon 2024.
The best of Modern Improv Quilting was on display at Quiltcon in Atlanta. These are the quilts that fed my soul at this particular Quiltcon, and here's why.
Scattered is one of my most popular quilt patterns - Check out the way the Scattered quilt looks in different colorways and fabrics.
A simple patchwork quilt made entirely with prints from the Field Study collection by Anna Maria Horner.
Here as promised are the Kaffe Fassett quilts from the Festival of Quilts show. If you’ve visited my blog before you may know that I quite like Kaffe Fasset’s work! That is a total unde…
KAFFE FASSETT - QUILTS IN AN ENGLISH VILLAGE – a new collection of 19 exquisite quilts set off against the ancient half-timbered Tudor houses in the medieval village of Lavenham. Kaffe Fassett’s Quilts in an English Village has a collection of 19 great projects exquisitely photographed by Debbie Patterson. Kaffe has chosen the medieval English village of Lavenham in Suffolk to show off this exquisite new collection of 19 quilts, set off against the ancient half-timbered Tudor houses. They are displayed in all their glory in a sumptuous eye-catching quilt gallery. Included in this set of new designs are many very special ones by Kaffe, and several by his long-time friend and co-designer, Liza Prior Lucy. This exquisite new collection of quilts, featuring both his scintillating new fabric designs and his classics, all in his unique color palette. This book, the 23rd in the series, includes a range of quilts for all skill levels, from beginners to advanced. Flat shots, a practical know-how section and glossary, back up the fully illustrated, step-by-step instructions, plus templates for each quilt. A practical know-how section covers all the information needed by less experienced quilters.
The Tetons are probably America's most easily recognized mountains, a row of peaks shaped like shark's teeth. (Note that the Tetons were named for their resemblance to something else, but that is because it was men, no doubt starved for female companionship, who did the naming.) Bounded by steep faults in the rock, the mountains rise sharply along the western edge of Wyoming's Jackson Hole valley. Teton sunset from Mormon Row Hikers who venture into Paintbrush, Cascade, Garnet, Avalanche, and Death Canyons, the main routes into Grand Teton National Park's back country, quickly find themselves amid enormous boulder fields with canyon walls towering up on both sides. Although some of the hikes are daunting, gaining thousands of feet of elevation over only a few miles, spectacular scenery and easy proximity to the road naturally draw many hikers. Hanging Canyon The west side of the range is a very different story. Most of the trailheads are miles beyond the highway, at the ends of poorly maintained gravel roads. The trails themselves tend to be much gentler, climbing open slopes that reflect the underlying westward dipping rocks. Along the trail towards Grizzly Creek Last month I spent five days on this gentle side of the Tetons as part of a geology field trip. Beginning at Coyote Meadows trailhead we hiked up Bitch Creek to the uppermost reaches of Grizzly Creek, just outside Grand Teton National Park (GTNP). It was a lovely spot, though thankfully it didn't live up to its name. No bears, grizzly or black. Our second camp, about five miles south of the first, was a greater challenge to reach as the trail crossed over two steep ridges and several times disappeared entirely in lush meadows. Picking it up again took sharp eyes and good map skills. The difficulty in finding the trail reflects just how little frequented this area is. Not counting a few people very close to the trailhead, I didn't see a single person outside of our group for the entire five days. Another advantage of being on the west side of the range is seeing dramatic sunsets over the plains of Idaho. But best of all are the enormous high meadows that, even in late summer, are filled with wildflowers. For an even tamer side to the Tetons, here is my now completed quilt made with vintage blocks that I acquired at a Jackson Hole garage sale years ago. I finished piecing it last summer, but waited until I was a little more sure of my skills with a long arm machine before attempting to quilt it. The blocks were foundation pieced (by hand and by machine) so the finished quilt has a little more heft to it than most quilts. As I mentioned last summer, I used vintage scraps to complete the blocks. The funny thing now is that I can't positively identify all of the pieces I added.
Instructions for reproducing a scrappy Ohio Star quilt from the 19th century. It is a social media project with 500+ participants. Lots of pictures.
A rare double sided patchwork crazy quilt circa 1890. Hand-stitched at the turn of the century, the quilt features "crazy" quilt patchwork on one side, and a log cabin quilt pattern on the other. The "crazy" quilted side features hand-embroidered months and years. The quilt has a ruffled burgundy trim. From our Heritage Collection CONDITION In good condition with wear consistent with age and use. There is some fray and missing panels. MEASUREMENTS Length: 66" ... 167.6 cm Width: 53" ... 134.6 cm 21681
Honey Ridge Quilt pattern is a controlled scrap quilt with a beautiful alternating block. The pieced blocks are striking in the placement of fabrics within the block to create versatile looks, even though the blocks are all the same.
All done and the binding will be in a small, dark red & navy check, cut on the bias. Log Cabins and recycled clothes - for me, what could be better :) Pictures & comments in Piecing 2015 Set 1.
We have a huge stash of free patterns in our Free Quilt Inspiration archive and we are excited to share them with you. T o go to a patte...
Judy and I visited Quilts in the Barn last Sunday where we greeted by Veronique's beautiful Isabelle quilt hanging in the entrance. And there was another quilt by Veronique inside - Provence. I loved these beautiful Warracknabeal Aunts quilts made from a huge stash of inherited hexies. Beautiful Jo Morton fabrics and quilts filled the Barn. And Mary Koval was there with some gorgeous antique quilts. Read about when Judy met Jo on the G'nT Sisters blog. I came with a home with a couple of fabrics for my blue and cream AWS. Hope you enjoyed the show. Carole
Garden Stroll is a downloadable pattern. Downloads are sent immediately after purchase.This quilt is a fun and funky garden design.Designed using the Winged Garden by Alexandra Bordallo collection by Andover Fabrics.The quilt finishes at 54" x 72".Please respect the copyright law. The artist has worked hard to create this work. If another copy is needed for a friend, another license needs to be purchased. Thank you for supporting the quilting community.
Modern sampler quilt - Inspired by Tula Pink City sampler - Mostly Carolyn Friedlander fabrics
Transform your fabric scraps into beautiful new scrappy quilts by making string quilts. A tutorial from NewQuilters.com #stringquilts #stringquilttutorial
Early last year, I was a part of my guild’s Liberty quilting bee. There were six of us, so it ran for six months and each month we made two blocks for the queen, and all our blocks were to be made predominantly with Liberty fabric. Fun! One huge reason I love Liberty fabric is […]
The perfect accent to your favorite cozy space, this gorgeous quilt has been handmade by me from the highest quality materials. Inspired by vintage bedsheets from the 70s, I put this pattern together in a traditional half-square triangle pattern; the use of white "negative space" gives the quilt a clean look and makes these bright prints really stand out. I wanted a quilt that looked like it had just been pulled from your grandmother's cedar hope chest-- something soft and clean, something familiar and safe, something comforting in its simplicity. I've had this pattern custom printed onto a seamless piece of high quality fabric making this a "whole cloth" quilt. The top is not pieced together from small blocks of fabric, though I've designed it to look that way. The entire top is one seamless piece of fabric; this gives it the look and feel of a traditionally pieced quilt. I've quilted the entire thing in a meandering loopy pattern which adds to the quilt's vintage feel. The quilt shown here is backed in an orange soft cotton blend; you have a choice of colors in the dropdown menu at checkout, and if you'd like your quilt backed in a color not listed, just let me know in the Message to Seller box and I'll get it for you. If you're looking for a traditionally pieced quilt, I'd love to make one for you; please feel free to reach out, or you can check my "Traditionally Pieced" section here: https://www.etsy.com/shop/OutOfCharacterQuilts?ref=seller-platform-mcnav§ion_id=46334629 You have TWO FABRIC OPTIONS when choosing your quilt: DOUBLE GAUZE: 100% cotton double gauze is often called "muslin" and is commonly used in baby blankets and swaddles because of its lightness and breathability. The weaving together of two layers of gauze creates a material that is incredibly lightweight and airy yet strong; it's also a coarser natural fabric so it has a more rustic look and feel. The double gauze version of this quilt is extra crinkly and measures approximately 66" x 50". Again, this version is very lightweight. Because of its looser weave, double gauze isn't recommended for pets with sharp nails. MINKY: Minky is a polyester-blended plush fabric; it's a cuddly, silky soft blend that triumphs over comparable fabric options in every way. Warm and durable, it boasts an unrivaled thick plushness that is soothing and cozy. The minky version is approximately 70" x 54". The colors are bolder, and the quilt itself is much heavier. If you're looking for a heftier, warmer quilt, this is the best option for you. The photos of this version are labeled "minky" in the images above. Both versions are gorgeous and striking in their own way. Throw it over your favorite reading chair and you'll do more reading. Fold it over the end of your bed and you'll find yourself sleeping better. Spread it on the floor for your baby to happily roll around on and you'll do more laughing, picnicking, tickling, and snuggling. These are all sound guarantees. The quilts are shown thrown over the foot of a standard queen-sized bed in the listing photos, but it is not sized to be standard bedding. Machine wash warm. Tumble dry low. Gets even better with time. The rustic nature of muslin means that there are often natural variances in the weave of the fabric. Orders will be shipped via USPS Ground Advantage or USPS First Class International; I do offer expedited domestic shipping at checkout, and you can select the "Express" shipping option to have your order shipped via USPS Priority Mail. The selected shipping method will not affect the production time. Please check the "Shipping & Policies" tab above for current production times. Follow me on instagram @outofcharacterquilts for a heads up on flash sales! ***Please double check the shipping address: If an order is returned due to an incorrect shipping address, the postage fee necessary to reship the order is the responsibility of the buyer. Because I make every quilt to order using customized colors and materials, I do not accept returns or exchanges. The finished size of your handmade quilt may vary by 1 to 2 inches depending on the materials used and the density of the quilting. ***
This quilt pattern will be mailed in the USA and can be sent email as a digital file outside of the USA. It is Jelly Roll friendly. Great for a different t-shirt quilt. Uses up your orphan blocks. Use up those small panels you could not resist to buy! Use that fabric you have been afraid to cut! Tula Pink's animals are great for this pattern! The quilt is made in 20 inch square sections. Six sections make a lap quilt, while 12 make a twin sized quilt.
Just yesterday I found out about the Tokyo International Great Quilt Festival, and with a name like that how could I not go immediately? It’s on for a week, at Tokyo Dome and is absolutely hu…
Most of these wall hangings are original....no pattern is available or possible. I share them to inspire you to try your hand at crea...
Beads Quilt Pattern https://www.quilt.today/2021/04/beads-quilt-pattern.html
