Make Yours as Vivid or Subdued as You Like! We first saw this quilt a few months ago and shared it on our Facebook page. Not surprisingly, it was a big favorite, with many asking for the pattern. We’ve been looking off and on ever since for the pattern and had given up on it …
My quilt is done and here’s the post about it! Click here for part 1. Since the first post, I decided to add another 15 blocks because I wanted all four corners to have a 9 patch block. With …
I posted about this quilt for the first time on my blog back in February 2012. It was started way before that, back in 2009. It has taken me a long time to make, but I am so thrilled with the end result and happier still to be sharing it with you!! I found this pattern in Quilt Sampler from fall/winter 2008 and I fell in love with it. I had a big bundle of fat quarters I had gotten from my mom when she was my secret sister a few years before. They were perfect for this quilt. I simply added more cream fat quarters for backgrounds as I didn't have enough. I first got discouraged while making the little 6" stars for the border. There were so many... I had already finished the 12" blocks for the centre of the quilt and those were a lot faster to piece. When I finally pulled it out again, I got those little stars finished by working on them here and there when I had a few moments to sew. It was easier to tackle a little at a a time. When those were finally done, I went out and bought the other borders. As I was sewing them on, I had a problem with the gold border. I measured the borders down the centre of the quilt, as I always do, but when I sewed them on, I had a lot of easing in to do. I wasn't sure what to do. I asked my mom for advice but I was discouraged so I put the quilt away, again... When I took it out again, I saw that it wasn't too bad and that it definitely would be okay to continue. The quilting might actually help. So I finished it and brought it over to my mom's. I love the secondary pattern that comes through on this quilt and I really wanted to accent it with the quilting. I love my mom's feathers and so I asked her to quilt feathers in the cream parts of the quilt. She asked me if I had any suggestions for the stars and I said no, I didn't care, I just knew I wanted feathers in those cream parts. Some of you may remember last June when I went to a retreat and my quilt group and I embarqued on this challenge where we each put 6 UFOs in a bag and pulled one out at random. We each put 10$ in a pot, and are suppose to have our UFO done by June this year in order to get our 10$ back. Well, this is my UFO! I am so excited it is done, and way before the deadline too! The best part is, I finally have a quilt that fits my bed properly. We got a queen size mattress back in 2006 and didn't have a queen size quilt to fit on it, until now! I am linking this special finish to TGIFF over at Quilt Matters this week. Posted with Blogsy
Soulshine Quilt I have a new quilt pattern coming out late February called Soulshine. I designed this one early summer 2021 and wrote the pattern for it that fall. I’m ridiculously in love and plan on making it all the ways. Pre-order Soulshine quilt pattern here. About Soulshine Quilt Pattern When I was designing this...
A cat lovers dream, Cats on Cats is a beginner friendly look at simple quilt techniques and chain piecing. Featuring fabric from Kitty Garden and Jenny's Basics by Jenny Ronen.
Attic Window Quilt Along Week 3 - Southern Charm Quilts - A Life With Quilts Quilt Alongs by Melanie Traylor
The Ivy League quilt pattern is a modern take on classic argyle. This pattern works well with solids, prints, or a mixture of both and is!
For a little behind-the-design inspiration, we spoke with Vanessa from our Home Design team to discuss what makes the Marianne Quilt and our quilt collection so special. From pattern inspiration […]
Learn how I quickly created this Amalfi buffalo check quilt using strip piecing. The result is a timeless object thanks to the beautiful fabric!
Download the FREE Ombre Puff Quilt Pattern here! If you've been around for any amount of time, you might've seen my Puff Quilt that my grandmother made for me. I love this thing SO much. She used various scrap fabrics and clothing to create this very dense, yet very snuggly quilt. . . . When I look at this quilt, I see something new each time. Recycled tablecloths from the 80s, pieces of my grandfathers button-down shirts, left-over fabrics from previous quilt projects. The list goes on. Some fabrics are used multiple times within the quilt, while other fabrics are only represented once. I love looking over all of the puffs and finding all of the similarities and differences between the squares. . . . My Granny made this for me when I was 7 years old. I absolutely LOVE that she created a tag for this quilt. I also love that she referred to the quilt as a
One of our most loved/used quilts in our house is the Prairie Picnic quilt I made several years ago- it has the perfect amount of simplicity, crinkly goodness, and coverage. It was no question that…
Earlier this year, some of our Tasmanian MQG members got together at one of our sewing days and started putting blocks together for our raffle quilt. One of our very dedicated members (my friend Lauren) then put the rest of the blocks together. We worked together to piece the top - and then it was handed over to me for the quilting (which I finished back in April). We made this quilt using a bundle of Kona solids, and Carolyn Friedlander's fantastic Aerial pattern. The blocks are all paper pieced, so it was the perfect choice for a group quilt in terms of making sure the blocks were all the same size. It went together like a dream! It took me a while to decide how to quilt this one, but I knew I wanted to keep it fairly simple since it's such a dynamic and complex design. I ended up deciding to quilt in the ditch in all the seams in each block, and then chose one colour within each block to do some free motion organic straight lines. I think it works really well - the texture is really lovely without distracting from the complexity of the blocks. I used coordinating Aurifil thread for all the quilting - my healthy thread stash certainly came in handy ;o) How to quilt the borders had me stumped for a while - but I ended up extending out the 'fractured' lines within the blocks, and then filling in the spaces around them with some swirls and a couple of feathery designs. It wasn't until I quilted the last border that I discovered what I should have done across the whole border - rather than extending the line and echoing it at an angle on both sides (as in the photo above), it looks much more effective where I've just echoed one side (as in the lower area in the photo below). I'm still really happy with how this one came out, but it was a really great learning experience and has given me ideas for how to quilt future projects :o) We are currently selling raffle tickets for this quilt, and the winner will be drawn at the Craft and Quilt Fair in July. The money we raise will be going to a support a sewing program at our local Women's Prison. I am thrilled that we are supporting this program - I know so many people (including myself) who have found sewing and quilting to be amazing therapy when going through difficult times in life. If you are interested in purchasing tickets, please contact us at tassiemqg at gmail dot com. xx Jess PS stay tuned for my MisDirection pattern release later this week! I can't wait to show you my amazing testers versions.
Back in the fall of 2020 I saw the Birch Bella Lawn line come out and the second I saw it, I had to buy it! It is by Birch Fabrics and is organic lawn which is the softest fabric ever. Bella Lawn is silky and the drape is gorgeous and comes at 56" wide instead of the regular 42-44" wide quilting cotton. The main differ
Introducing my latest pattern, Ribbon Candy! I had planned on this pattern being announced before my son was born, but...
This is the Autumn Quilt, my first-ever attempt at quilting, made during a time when my sewing skills were even more abysmal than they are now. I knew I was coming at this project at a disadvantage, having never taken the time to properly learn how to sew, so I chose not to worry too much about maki
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I’m proud and happy to share some promising progress on two more Works-in-Progress (WIPS)! Woo! First of all, I’ve finished the blocks for my Scrappy-Trip-Around-the-World quilt. I added some less-intense reds and more funky shades of the original colors and and I think it’s made a good difference. I like it MUCH better. It’s not...Read More
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For the more traditional types, country quilts are the best to bring that homey, rustic feel to a room or furniture.
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I joined Amanda's Nine Patch a Day quilt along last April and finished the first half of the blocks in May and the second half of the blocks in June. I finally got around to piecing the top of the...
How to Sew a Quilt! (quilting 101): Quilting is my biggest passion. I think it's probably hereditary. :D I also think it's a skill that is useful beyond words... quilts are beautiful and functional and I consider them to be the greatest gift in the world. (Really, who wouldn't want a…
Our Amish made Nine Patch Calico Quilt is full of surprising color, offset by spaces of heavily hand quilted neutral white squares. Gorgeous border, too!
If you're a fabric lover, fabric a-holic, and fabric scrap saver like me...do I have a fun quilt for you to make!!! June, 2015 issue of American Patchwork & Quilting magazine cover photo used with permission I'm blessed to once again to have another original quilt design in the new, June issue of American Patchwork & Quilting magazine!!! Every Little Bit quilt, by Pam Buda of Heartspun Quilts Appearing in the June, 2015 issue of American Patchwork & Quilting magazine photo used with permission Photo used with permission of American Patchwork & Quilting magazine. The quilt, called Every Little Bit, is aptly named as it really does use just about every little bit and scrap of fabric you may have!! Here is a close-up of one of the Churn Dash blocks. The straight sides of the block are paper-pieced. Now, don't be put off by that at all!! Your fabric pieces can be fairly large when you are sewing with them....and...sewing them paper-pieced-style is easy because it's nothing but straight strips. (Notice the little alphabet fabric print? I jumped a line in the paper piecing in order to see more of the print. You can do that, too, to fussy cut, or show more of a print if you'd like.) Here's a photo I took while making the quilt, and I need to tell you that I worked on this quilt...on and off....for about a year. Trust me...you'll enjoy making the quilt a little at a time. It could have been named "As Time Goes By" because you can paper piece and make the other units a little here and there as you come across scraps....because, of course, the scrappier the better!! Making this quilt taught me an important lesson. Organize!!! Sorting the fabric scraps by color made picking and choosing the fabrics for each paper-pieced segment much faster and easier. The key is to have some sort of organizational system in place, then while you generate more and more scraps, you can 'file' them for future use. All of the fabric pieces stored in these containers are strips, or squares that measure less than 2 inches. The beauty is you can use even the smallest little scraps...ones you might throw away, sewing those sweet prints into blocks, and make yourself a quilt of scrappy happiness! Every Little Bit was quilted by Linda Hrcka of The Quilted Pineapple I was twice blessed in that the wickedly talented Linda Hrcka, of The Quilted Pineapple, quilted her magic into my quilt. Please visit her blog to see more photos of the quilting. If she hasn't posted about this quilt yet, she will very soon. Now I know you have lots of scraps, and who doesn't love a classic Churn Dash block?? So the only thing left to do is run out to the store, and buy yourself a copy of American Patchwork & Quilting magazine. It will be on the newsstand April 7th!!! I have four orphan blocks leftover from making my quilt, and I think they need a good home. For a chance to win one of the blocks, please leave me a comment about how you organize your scraps, or what kind of scrappy quilts are your favorite. I'll choose four winners Friday, April 3rd, and send you a signed block for your quilt. Happy Scrapping!!
Made with a charm pack of ABC 123 and embellished with hand quilting in DMC perle cotton no. 8 and Aurifil 12 wt. Solid is Kona Ivory. 27" by 32" and completed June 2013. Blogged at coraquilts.blogspot.ca/2013/06/american-jane-9-patch-baby...
It’s certainly been the year for Aussie quilt designers and their books! It’s such a thrill to see my friends succeed, and I know that there’s more to come. We’re too talented a bunch here Down Under to stop us 😉 Today, I’m excited to share more about one in particular – Fussy Cutters Club: […]
Hi, all! I will confess, I haven't had much time this week to work with my scraps - Hands2Help has been taking almost all my available time - but I did have a chance to finish the flying geese blocks for the Long Time Gone quilt that I had only started last week... And see that plastic jar in the back? It's got a bunch of bonus HSTs left over from the making of these three blocks - won't they be fun to play with? And here's a few ideas that would be great for them.... This quilt is the creation of P., who blogs over at The Way I Sew It - I absolutely love it! You could use any size HST for this! And this one - so simple, but just gorgeous! A great way to use up scraps..... And now for some scrappy inspiration that I ran across this week... Is this not the cutest I-Spy ever? Hopefully by next week, I'll have carved out some time to work on my Long Time Gone quilt - I don't want to lose momentum on it! So tell me - what are you working on to help tame your scrap monster? Hugs! Sarah
Good morning, Morning! Morning, you are my favorite time of day. I designed this simple randomly patched quilt to celebrate the cool wonderfulness of summertime morning. Its predominant color is the exact shade of vanilla ice cream with a bunch of ollalieberries (a type of blackberry, bred here in Oregon) smooshed in.
Several years ago, the girls at our church began making these quilts for each new baby. A baby boom occurred soon after, so we began limiting it to
Choose Your Favorite Charm Squares For Your Own Beautiful Version! This stunning quilt is made from a super easy block that looks as though you spent a lot of time on difficult piecing. The block is a breeze to make, thanks to excellent instructions from Anita Grossman Solomon. Karen Martin made this gorgeous quilt and …
This quilt has become so popular on all the popular online sites and so many people want to know the name of the pattern. (I posted it further down in the blog post but I thought I would add it up here in the first paragraph.). The pattern is called Rising Stars by Cozy Quilt Designs.. Well, I finished this quilt just in the nick of time. I am taking a break from doing the hand binding, and hand stitching the casings on four quilts so they can be hung in my guild's quilt show tomorrow. This is a UFO that sat on my shelves for years, at least the jelly rolls did, and then I started this quilt back in January. I wasn't quite sure just how I was going to quilt it until I just happened upon an IMQA calendar that had this same pattern in it! Wow! I loved the way Debbie Treusch had broken down the elements in this by framing each 16 patch. I contacted Debbie and let her know that her quilt inspired me and she wished me luck with my quilt! She is one talented lady, and has won many awards in the quilting world. The pattern is called Rising Stars by Cozy Quilts. Be sure to tell them I referred you :) Of course I had to put my own creativity on it, so I changed up the fills, the sashing, the feather style, as well as the cc's in the 16 patches. I am a bit disappointed that I did not use a contrasting thread in the white. The stitch definition shows up beautiful in natural light, but in artificial light it gets lost. In the future I will use a slight contrast. After all, why do all that custom quilting to have it get lost? This will most likely be my last personal quilt I work on for quite awhile, as I have a few customer quilts that I am really excited to start on!
📷 Holy cow, I like this one from Pinterest (Russian sewist). Do you save photos of quilts you'd like to try? This one would be great for reducing my scrap bin overflow. 95% of my scraps are 2.5" wide strips. Smaller strips I give to my friend Jerry, the rug guy. This Russian artist's quilt I like the variety of color and pattern, "fits me to a T". (Where did that expression come from, I'd like to know). The Light and dark cornerstones are deliberate--and that is something that peaks my interest. I especially like the skinny sashing, even though its medium to light value is almost LOST. 📷 Above, is one of my quilts. Simple, fun to make. Designing quilts on the fly . . . my design idea here was to join Four (10.5") scrappy strip blocks with a light color sashing and orange corner stone. I couldn't decided in the first place if I wanted orange corner stones or turquoise corner stones . . . . so I framed the quadrant block in a dark blue small paisley print accented with turquoise corner stones. Other Bits: A couple years ago I was waiting, waiting, waiting, for Anita Solomon Grossman to come out with her simple cuts technique for "her Wonky Star" block, but it never materialized online. I experimented on my own to build her wonky star block (trying to think it through like Anita would). That experiment resulted in 8 wonky star blocks sitting in my scrap bin, (4) red stars on a teal background and (4) teal stars on a red background. Having no better use for them, I threw them into this quilt for interest.
Waterfall is a multi-sized log cabin quilt pattern with unique setting triangles to finish the stunning design clear out to the edge. Hues of two colors create a gradating ombre colorwash that just draws you in with its beauty. The Waterfall quilt pattern includes specific instructions for fabric placement, so where each fabric goes is clear at every step of the quilt-making process. Also included as a bonus inside the pattern is a list of the exact Moda Grunge fabrics used to make the blue/aqua cover quilt. Waterfall is a yardage quilt pattern. Choose five hues from light to dark in two colorways, add a light fabric for the center squares and a very dark color for the sashing. What is the difference between the Waterfall and Waterfall II patterns? This listing is for Waterfall which is designed with two colorways with 13 fabrics total, Waterfall II (not this pattern) is made with a single colorway and uses 7 fabrics total. You will find Waterfall II right here. Pattern includes 2 size options - Throw and Queen.See images for Fabric Requirements and Quilt Sizes.This listing is for the PRINTED paper pattern, which will be mailed to you. COUPON! Save $2 off 2 patterns with TWOPATTERNS or Save $4 off 3 patterns with THREEPATTERNS at checkout. Applies to regular-priced patterns only.Waterfall is suitable for intermediate quilters and up. It has easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions, charts and diagrams for cutting and piecing this stunning quilt. Previous knowledge of quilt top assembly, basting, quilting, and binding are assumed and are not taught in this pattern.Pattern #BUS 0551© Myra Barnes of Busy Hands QuiltsAll rights reserved.This pattern is copyrighted and may not be copied or shared.
