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This week I'm going to tell you a bit more about each of the new patterns I recently announced. Next up is Night Sky! Night Sky is the first large quilt pattern that uses Sidekick! Quilt Details Fabric is Kona Solids by Robert Kaufman Pattern - Night Sky, JBQ 137 Designed by me Quilted by Angela Walters Started on 6/24/13 Finished on 9/5/13 Quilt measures - 56" x 65" The awesome team over at Robert Kaufman has put the 16 colors I used together into a Jaybird Night Sky Fat Quarter bundle!! I'm SO excited about them!! FYI, they will have a limited number of them during Sample Spree at Quilt Market next week. I'm planning to pick one up and have a giveaway here once I'm back from Quilt Market. Here is the back of the pattern cover. Each of my patterns now has its own hashtag! #NightSkyQuilt -- Fabric selection is key with Night Sky. Create beautiful monochromatic stars with depth and detail using four shades from the same color family for each block. Four fat quarters will make six blocks. Here are the colors that I used to create the cover quilt. The baby quilt will have blocks in one color family only. The lap features four as shown on the cover. The twin has blocks in six color families, and the queen & king both have seven. We checked in with the team at Robert Kaufman to identify specific Kona Cotton solids that complement the existing Jaybird Night Sky bundle if you want to make a larger sized Night Sky quilt. Here's what we came up with: Grey color family: Silver, Shadow, Iron, Pewter Pink color family: Pomegranate, Bright Pink, Candy Pink, Carnation Yellow color family: Canary, Lemon, Sunny, Papaya You can find more Night Sky fabric inspiration here, too. -- Here are some of the outtakes from our cover shoots. Lawrence & I also took night sky with us to Santa Barbara. We tried to shoot the cover there... but never got the right shot. This could have worked if the lighting wasn't so strong from behind the quilt. I was actually holding the quilt this time! Check out my tutorial on how to bind quilts with 120-degree angles to finish this quilt. I did get a nice photo that shows the detail of Angela's quilting. In the background of Night Sky, Angela quilted straight lines that crossed each other. Inside the quilt blocks, she quilted geometric quilting designs using the points of the block as a reference. Since I didn't get the cover I wanted in Santa Barbara... I decided to bring the quilt to Hawaii!! As soon as we discovered this bridge I knew the photo I wanted for the cover. Lawrence patiently held the quilt while I got the camera settings just right. Got it!! I think it is going to be hard find a more beautiful place to photograph my quilts! Night Sky will be available on 10/30. © Blog post written by Julie Herman For more information visit http://www.jaybirdquilts.com/
I had promised my friend Amber a basket for do-dads on her changing table and finally got around to it this weekend. (Baby Liam is almost 2 month old...yikes!) And , here it is with my new baby, a garage sale find, works great... can you see me smiling? Also, I had quilted a signature into the Stars and Moon quilt... Have a great week!
I cannot believe I didn’t blog about this quilt! This quilt has such a story to tell. The piecer of this quilt – Lorna – had been bringing me quilts for a while. Lots of fab…
Make a Big Impression with This Beautiful Quilt! This pattern is very popular and it’s easy to see why. The finished quilt is simply stunning, no matter what colors you choose. Plus, it’s a joy to make. Construction is much easier than it looks. The quilt pattern was brought to our attention by visitors to …
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Stunning New York Beauty variation block pattern from 6" to 16", instructions for constructing a baby to king-sized quilt included. Foundation paper piecing includes templates for all sized blocks. This pattern was recreated from a one-of-a-kind quilt that has appeared in Pinterest from an Austrian quilt guild who didn't keep the instructions for the blocks they had each member make for their charity quilt shown at a festival in Austria. It was then auctioned off, with no pattern subsequently available. After tracking down some members of the guild, and speaking with them, after their quilt has shown up all over, folks asking what the name of it was, where they could get the pattern, I was given permission to recreate it. And here it is for your use! A Tri-Rec ruler is recommended for this pattern, but is not required to complete the Tri-Rec units that make the star points in the sashing. Upon purchase, if you wish to have a tutorial on how to make the Tri-Rec units without the ruler, please message me and I'll be happy to send the link to you. If you are interested in a printed version, please check my shop for that listing. This pattern is under US Copyright Law. Anyone making quilts with this pattern and retailing the finished product for sale is considered to be in violation of said Copyright Law and will be sued for infringement of these laws.
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Did anyone notice that I completely skipped over “Baby #1” when I started posting last fall? I posted the quilts made for babies #2 and #3, but wasn’t quite sure if I had photos …
Click the Buy Now button to find the On-Point Expansion Packages! The Prismatic Star was originally published in 2014 to show how an exploded star could be paper pieced using the (48) 2-1/2” strip ...
This mini runner was designed as part of an on line row-along - the theme was My Happy Place. I have a lot of happy places, but one of my favorite things to do is to go outdoors on a dark, cloudless night and admire the heavens. I love gazing at the multitude of stars and enjoying the quiet and taking the time to enjoy the stillness of the night. This little quilt is made with three different three inch star blocks. They are all traditionally pieced - once you start making these mini blocks, you will be hooked! This is a great scrap fabrics, the largest pieces needed are 3 1/2 inch squares. The three star patterns used are Friendship Star, Ohio Star and Sawtooth Star. This row will finish at 9 inches by 30 inches and can be used either horizontally or vertically. This is a great scrap quilt, and if you are like me you probably have a few star fabrics in your stash that you can put to use to make this! Enjoy!
This is the ENGLISH VERSION of the pattern. The pattern includes specifications for two different quilt sizes. The quilt background can. be constructed in two different ways (single fabric or multicolor background). The pattern also contains detailed instructions for the construction of the stars and the construction of the complete quilt top. Coloring sheets for both quilt sizes and background options help you with the planning step. The pattern is great for using up fabric scraps - even very small ones! Of course you can also use yardage. difficulty level: confident beginner and of course advanced quilters. It´s the perfect project to make a big dent in your piles of scraps! The instructions do not include basting, quilting and binding steps. After purchase you receive a link for the digital download of the pattern via email. Please save a copy for your personal use straight away. The amount of downloads possible is 5, the download link ist valid for 3 months. Please respect our copyright rules, you can find the under 'Terms & Conditions'.
Here are morefree patterns for STAR quilts! Sawtooth stars, Ohio Stars, LeMoyne Stars, Lone Stars, Mariner's Compass Stars, Friendship St...
I am SEW glad you are joining us for our Star Upon Stars Quilt Along!Welcome to the first week for our Star Upon Stars Quilt Along.I always enjoy learning something new and exciting and then sharing it with you!Today we will be sewing Small Stars to let our quilt top sparkle.Visit our YouTube Channel for in depth details.For this project, I chose our Primrose Fat Quarter, Star Upon Stars Template Set, Scrappy Lights Fat Eighth Bundle, and Scrappy Darks Fat Eighth Bundle (or you can use scraps f
The Stars and Moon top is finished, 36" x 48". Tonight I'm going to get the back ready and move onto the Free Motion Quilting. Here's ...
Vela Quilt PDF Pattern, Scrap Friendly by Slightly Biased Quilts Finished size: 45" x 45" (Baby), 54" x 66" (Lap) A fun take on wonky stars, the Vela quilt is a fun modern quilt pattern that comes together like a puzzle. This pattern is pieced by machine, scrap friendly, and beginner friendly. Start sewing right away with an instant download of this PDF pattern. Note: This listing is for the PDF pattern only and not for a finished quilt.
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Think about you, quilting. Pair that image with your wildest, most wouldn’t-it-be-amazing dream. What does your marvel of a quilting experience look like? For astronaut Karen Nyberg, her quilting adventure was a literal out-of-this world event: making a quilt block in orbit, on the International Space Station. Wow! Inspiration doesn’t come on a scale much …
Last summer, my friend Colleen and I decided to take the Hunter Star class at Along Came Quilting. Here's a photo of the class sample, made by Kim Morrison, from the Along Came Quilting website, . This is a gorgeous quilt, in a traditional Hunter Star layout. This is a 4 day class (over 3 or 4 months), with lots of homework. On the 2nd day of class, you play with layout designs, as there are many options. Believe it or not, you can spend a whole day twisting and playing with block arrangement. Kim, our instructor, warned us in advance not to be too set on the traditional layout, as the fabrics and blocks might tell you how they need to be. Colleen was sure her quilt would be a traditional Hunter Star, as laid out below. And here's another layout option, with the same blocks. But Kim was right. Colleen's blocks did not want to be traditional. And here's how she chose to set her blocks... This layout required more light blocks than dark blocks. Colleen was starting to really like her quilt now, but wanted it slightly larger, and didn't care for the unfinished light stars on the edges, so very cleverly decided to add 1/2 blocks all around the outside edges, which finished the stars and made the quilt the size she wanted. And, for consistency, and to make it more border-like, she used the same dark blue fabric in all of these blocks. Isn't it wonderful with those 1/2 blocks added and the stars finished? Colleen IS brilliant :) I took a huge number of photos, but not one of the whole quilt after those 1/2 blocks were added. The fun continued with the quilting. Silk batting gives a nice loft without adding a lot of weight to this 88x102 quilt. Whimsical freehand feathers in the border, feathers between stars and some line-dancing in the block centers, giving lots of motion to the quilt. The stars were stitched around (ditched) to define them, and some continuous curves through the stars for softness. I had been getting a little discouraged quilting the light areas, as it was very hard to see what I had done, and it seemed like it wouldn't be worth all the time...but then I came back downstairs and the light was just right!! Hooray, the quilting really does show! These photos are while the work was still in progress, so the dark stars aren't stitched in yet. And, Colleen really wanted pillow shams, but didn't want to piece any more blocks (plus I think she was out of usable fabric for light stars) so she gave me some of her border fabric, and I designed some quilted pillow shams. oops, forgot to remove the chalk lines before taking photos The quilting is hard to see from the front, but when the light hits right, it's visible. If you're still here, thanks for enduring through all these photos with me.
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As far back as I can remember, I have memories of my Mom making something. Always with knitting needles in her hands making a blanket or sweater or a hat or booties...or hunched over her sewing
Use it for Strollers Too! We all know how babies have a tendency to kick off their blankets. That can be a problem when you’re out and about, as blankets can end up on the ground or even overlooked and left behind. This sweet little car seat quilt has ties on the side so it …
Hallo Ihr Lieben, heute gibt es den Post mit den aktuellen Fotos der "Oh My Stars" Näherinnen. Es sind nicht so viele Fotos, wie beim letzten Post. Aber alle sind sie wunderschön. Es entstehen bzw. enstanden wunderschöne Quilts. Ich bin begeistert, wie unterschiedlich und einzigartig jeder einzelne ist. Ich hoffe nach der Sommerpause rüsten sich alle Mitnäherinnen zum Endspurt. Hi Everyone, today I show you the latest photos from "Oh My Stars" sewers. There are not so many pictures how the last time, but they all so wonderful. I`m so happy, how the stars looks with all the other fabrics and colors. I hope after the summer break all "Oh My Stars" sewer upgrade to the finally stars. I hope my English is Ok. Maja Heidi Marianne Simone Frauke Christiane Ingrid Sigrid Jannette Gudrun Und meine Beiden ( Grit ) Ich möchte ganz herzlich meine neusten Leserinnen begrüßen und danke Euch allen für die lieben Kommentare zu meinem letzten Post. Welcome to my newest followers. Thank you all for your lovely comments to my last post. Liebe Grüße Grit
My top 10 favorite traditional patchwork quilt patterns. With links to get the quilt patterns for yourself.
We're so excited to share another free project with you! This one is called Seeing Stars, by Alex Anderson, and is from Make Star Quilts. FINISHED QUILT: 48 1/2˝ × 54 1/2˝ FINISHED BLOCK: 6˝ × 6˝ TOT
Volare is the Italian for 'to fly' (or soar) and is the name of the current European Space Agency mission being conducted by Luca Parmitano on the International Space Station. And now it's the name of my latest quilt: It's now in the possession of the young boy I made it for, so here are a lot of photos... (closest to the sun, Mercury, then Venus) I explained in earlier posts about piecing the background. It came together really well, and with a bit of care at the sandwiching and quilting stages, laid beautifully flat, especially given all the free-form curves. The planets were all made from fabrics which I painted myself after researching the colours and textures required for each. One (Mars) was an over-pained commercial print, but the others were all plain white when I started. (Mars, with two Martians and an approaching Space Shuttle) Each of the planets is fused with a narrow (roughly 1/4in) ring of fusible web to a matching solid print, and then with another ring both layers were fused to the background and appliqued in place with a blanket stitch in matching thread on my machine. The double layer was used to enhance the colours in some cases, and avoid the background showing through. I only fused around the edges to keep them soft. Before sandwiching, I pinned cut-to-size circles of scrap batting under each planet (and the comet and moon) in a simple trapunto technique to add extra dimension and fullness. (Saturn, with rings added by machine and an astronaut on a spacewalk) Obviously it wasn't possible to make them all to scale - or keep the distances to scale; I applied a liberal dose of artistic licence to make the layout visually pleasing. With the exception of Earth, they're sized in order, and the planets were initially placed in order of their position from the sun, but somehow Saturn shifted a bit closer than intended and here appears about as close as Jupiter. (Jupiter; my favourite of my hand-painted planet fabrics) Most of the details were free-motion stitched prior to sandwiching (e.g. the Martians, plane, ISS and Saturn's rings) but near Jupiter is something I added during the quilting. It's visible in the image above, below and to the left of the planet, but here's more detail below: Rotated here to its more familiar orientation is the Southern Cross, a constellation always visible in the southern hemisphere, and depicted on the Australian flag (as well as others). On the Australian flag, all but the smallest star are shown with seven points, one for each of the six states, and another for the two territories. So I chose to quilt the larger of the two pointer stars (bottom left of the photo above) with seven points (the others were really too small for such detail). Uranus is a pale greeny-blue, but I'm still not used to how much lighter the painted fabrics are once dry, and it's a bit paler than intended: Furthest out is Neptune, among the darkest background fabrics: I remember the passing of Halley's Comet in 1986, so I decided to add it into the quilt as well. Some of the tail was added prior to sandwiching, but I added a little more yellow at the quilting stage, and if you look closely at the main image of the quilt (open it to view it larger), you'll see I quilted a subtle extended tail in navy thread round underneath and up past the left-hand side of Saturn. I used a pale yellow fairy frost fabric for the body of the comet, which gives it a but of luminescence. The greatest detail went into Earth. I over-emphasised its size to be able to include more detail - although it was still hard at 7in across. I used a commercial leaf-print batik for most of the land appliques on Earth - and a pearlescent snowy-white fairy frost for Antarctica. I used a combination of straight-stitch and blanket-stitch to applique the fused pieces in matching threads. I'll tell you a little secret. Australia is sufficiently symmetrical in shape that when traced in reverse on the fusible web, I forgot it was flipped. I carefully positioned it on the fabric with a brown section to represent the drier desert areas of the central outback and northern Western Australia - and ended up with it towards the lusher rainforests of far-north Queensland instead, and didn't realise until it was permanently fused in place - oops! The larger land areas and islands are appliqued (I especially like the peek of Antarctica down the bottom) and I added a few more in thread-only, but naturally had to simplify considerably. I took special care to make sure the Philippine archipelago was recognisable. This tiny little plane over China was also thread-sketched (by machine of course). And of course, one of my favourite details, the International Space Station (also rather simplified, at about 1 1/4in across) passing by New Zealand. I had the perfect fabric for the crescent moon, then had to find a section of sky that was both suitably close and suitable dark to place it! I mentioned several posts back about our plan to go and see the ISS. Well, we had a perfect viewing, as it passed right over Adelaide on a clear evening, and was easily visibly for over 5 minutes. James was the first to spot it. I set up my DLSR on the tripod and took a number of 4-second exposures. Without a remote-shutter, even the most careful depression of the button moved the camera a fraction, and my small tripod isn't the most steady, so the path looks rather jagged in my photos, but I was pleased with the results from so little effort. I especially liked the image below, which was towards the end of when it was visible (moving away from us, 'down') and shows a change in colour as the angle of the sun's reflection on it changed. (Several stars are also visible.)
Here are more free patterns for STAR quilts! There are Sawtooth Stars, Ohio Stars, LeMoyne Stars, Lone Stars, Mariner's Compass Stars, Fr...
Photos above © Quilty Love What a beautiful quilt (free pattern)! Night Stars Quilt - A bold star quilt pattern - Quilty Love. Bold and modern sawtooth star quilt pattern. Large throw size quilt. Ful
This is Missy’s Prismatic Star quilt which is a paper pieced pattern by Judy Niemeyer of Quiltworx. Missy owns Up North Quilt Shop in International Falls, MN and this quilt was a class she held at her shop a few months ago. This is the first time I have quilted for Missy so I asked her if she liked feather quilting and she said they are not her favorite. I’m so glad I asked as I would have put feathers all over this quilt! So my next idea was to have lines radiating out of the star with some fillers. I first doodled about 8 different fills but it was getting too busy so I simplified it with only two designs and very happy I went with this route. The fabric used is Timeless Treasures Gypsy Tonga Strips and the batting is Hobbs Heirloom 80/20. I used a light blue So Fine thread for most of the quilt top, and switched to a light plum for the purple diamonds. I quilted CC’s in the diamonds, stitched in the ditch around the large diamonds and did free hand swirls and U turns in the background. I used my QP Fat Edge ruler for the diagonal lines.
Blossoming Lonestar. Seriously wish I could find the time to finish this one. I am going to extend the blocks with Alison glass abacus fabric………hopefully soon! lol! Finally I have…
Found another STAR block. I am making a quilt from the MIDNIGHT QUILT SHOW on You Tube. MIDNIGHT QUILT SHOW .. VARIABLE STAR QUILT I...
It’s a Lovely Baby Quilt, Too! This charming quilt brims with color and cheerful blooms. It’s a great way to put to good use some of those scraps you have tucked away. Easy piecing and fusible applique mean this is a quick and easy project for anyone with solid quilting skills. The pattern, by Erin …
This is the weighted quilt I wrote about a few days ago. As I mentioned, weighted quilts can be calming or soothing for people who have sensory issues (such as many people on the autism spectrum) or restless legs. I had to photograph it lying flat on the ground, because the added weight means it won't hang nicely on a wall, even if I had tape strong enough to hold it! It's 35 x 45in. I started with a 14x18 layout of squares cut from my stars stash (and a few plainer dark blues), layered the top with a single layer of plain black cotton (more strength to keep the pellets in) and pinned them as I would a regular quilt sandwich, then fused four five-point stars and appliqued them with a small buttonhole stitch by machine. I then created the double-decker sandwich; charcoal flannel backing, wool/cotton wadding to soften the pellets, plain black cotton (pellet security), then the pre-layered top, and re-pinned the whole lot. I quilted around the edges and the channels, then worked my way up the quilt, filling and quilting as I went, and double-securing the ends of every seam. I then added plain black binding in my usual manner - but slowly, due to the need to manoever all the tiny pellets away from the needle and keep it straight and even (which was harder than I'd thought).But after hand stitchign the binding to the back, I reinforced it with a neat row of machine stitching. I don't like machined bindings usually - I don't like the visible stitching, and they're rarely neat all the way around. But hand stitching first gives the back a perfectly straight (and perfectly placed) finish, and makes the final machine stitching much neater. Of course, this approach won't please those who choose to machine bind for reasons of speed, but in this instance it allowed me to add strength to the finish without sacrificing neatness. In a few places the stars overlapped the grid for the pellets, but rather than put ugly dark blue lines across the stars, when I came to a star, I followed the shortest path around the edge of the star back to the original gridline, so a few of the pockets are slightly odd shapes! I've sent this quilt off already, and I hope it works as intended for the little boy - and that he and his mother like it!
I mentioned here that I made a center block for three different medallion quilts. Two are Marcelle Medallion blocks from the medallion pattern in the Liberty Love book. The third was for the design as you go Medallion project we’re currently working on with the Utah County Modern Quilt Group. For that block I decided to make a lone star [...]
Foundation pieced using quiltsmart interfacing method...
finished putting the rows together.... Think I will put a small border around. and I am finally finishing the binding on Easy Street!
This is the ENGLISH VERSION of the pattern. The pattern includes specifications for two different quilt sizes. The quilt background can. be constructed in two different ways (single fabric or multicolor background). The pattern also contains detailed instructions for the construction of the stars and the construction of the complete quilt top. Coloring sheets for both quilt sizes and background options help you with the planning step. The pattern is great for using up fabric scraps - even very small ones! Of course you can also use yardage. difficulty level: confident beginner and of course advanced quilters. It´s the perfect project to make a big dent in your piles of scraps! The instructions do not include basting, quilting and binding steps. After purchase you receive a link for the digital download of the pattern via email. Please save a copy for your personal use straight away. The amount of downloads possible is 5, the download link ist valid for 3 months. Please respect our copyright rules, you can find the under 'Terms & Conditions'.
Click the Buy Now button to find the On-Point Expansion Packages! The Prismatic Star was originally published in 2014 to show how an exploded star could be paper pieced using the (48) 2-1/2” strip ...
