Inklingo Projects | By Inklingo Quilters, For Everyone. Simple Whatnots Mini Quilts Club - Fat Quarter Shop's Jolly Jabber. We are excited to announce the new Simple Whatnots Miniature Quilts Club featuring Vintage Farmhouse fabric by Kim Diehl beginning in July! Miniature quilts are everywhere these days and this program gives you a great excuse to sew one up each month to round out 2014. Kim Diehl, the designer extroudinare behind the Simple Whatnots Club is here to tell you about all six quilts in the program, so keep reading for a closer look at these miniature quilt patterns! "Hopscotch" This colorful little patchwork quilt is simple to stitch, and I really love the sense of movement that the rows of triangles bring. Because I'm one if those quilters who think everything is better with a little dollop of appliqué, I decided to offer this design in both a patchwork and appliqué medallion version. So, the only question is...to appliqué, or not to appliqué?
"Laundry Day" "Sunday Supper" "Idaho Lily" "Meandering" This little patchwork quilt shows off one of my very favorite things...checkerboard squares. 24 Blocks. 5 Unique Quilting Ideas with Free Patterns With your quilting knowhow and skill, you already make beautiful blankets – but that talent can also be used to make tons of other fun things. We’ve got a few creative ideas for crafting quilted items, which could make for great gifts, functional household items, or great ways to use excess fabric. Photo credit: Craft Snob Read below for a bit of inspiration! Quilted Coasters (pictured above) This fun project is a great way to use up scrap fabric, and it’s also a cute gift idea. These are definitely not the only unique quilting ideas out there – ornaments, Christmas stockings, vests, and other patterns can be found online as well. Sew Much Like Mom: Double Wedding Ring Quilt Along: Let's Talk Fabric.
Welcome!! Today we're going to talk about one of my most favorite things: Fabric. I have a confesstion. I'm an avid fabric collector. Some may call it "hoarding", but I prefer to call it "collecting". Maybe you can relate? My fabric stash is made up of a bit of everything: treasured reproductions, florals, stripes, solids, new, old, and even some rare, hard to find prints. I'm going to be demonstrating three different ways to use fabric for making your arches, which are generally the focus of the Double Wedding Ring design. As you begin thinking of the fabrics you'd like to use, also think about which method (solid, pieced, and improv) that you want to try for making your arches.
Prewashing. Why prewash for the Double Wedding Ring? Another thing to consider as you think about fabrics, is the overall design that the rings of your DWR will take on. Any of these designs can be used with solid, pieced or improv arches. Let's talk fabric requirements. Thank you for stopping by! ~Cristy. My Hexagon Crazy Quilt. I accepted a commission on Halloween 2008 to make 3 crazy quilts for an 83 year old woman, one for each of her 3 daughters. She had sewn all her life, but was not a quiltmaker. She wanted me to use all the fabric she had sewn with as well as suits from her deceased husband. She had taught for Stretch and Sew so her fabric collection included polyester double knits. When I went to her house on Halloween 2008 she had the fabric sorted into these 8 tote boxes. She had carefully taken apart each piece of clothing. I was glad to have a lot of tables in my studio at QSDS because I needed room to spread out all the fabric and sort it by color.
Above you can see for yourself some of what I had to deal with.Here is a picture of the finished quilt. Why a hexagon? Here is a sampling of some of the hexagons blocks I made. Blog Archive » The Craftonomicon Quilt! June 4th, 2012 at 11:00 So this year’s Natcon has a crafty theme, and that set me thinking. Paper piecing is one of my favourite kinds of patchwork and it occurred to me that if I prepared a bunch of pieces, and didn’t let myself sew any of them together until the beginning of the con, I could see how far I could get over the whole weekend. Sure, I might get distracted and end up with the world’s smallest quilt, but what is there to lose? After all, sewing and talking go together like bread and jam, and if there’s one thing I can guarantee about this coming weekend, it’s that I’m going to be talking my head off. So what would be the perfect themed quilt to work on at an SF convention? How about my Black and White 1960′s Doctor Who Hexagon Quilt?
Hexagons are the classic paper piecing shape, and also happen to be evocative of the TARDIS console. I’ve tacked fabric to nearly 100 card hexagons. Tags: black and white 1960's doctor who hexagon quilt, classic who, craft, doctor who, natcons. March | 2010 | Postcards From Panama. Six blue hexagons Like this: Like Loading... Six green hexagons Six yellow hexagons Six orange hexagons Six red hexagons This morning I spent over 3 hours sorting through my stash of batiks – I picked out 6 each: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple and dark earthy colors. I am printing and cutting in groups of 6. Ohhhh Noooooo!! I should be screaming and kicking and pulling my hair out right now. If I had used the traditional English Paper Pieced method I am sure I could have rescued it – but the way I stitched mine (see below) I will have to unpick the top of each and every seam so I can attach it to the Inklingo hexagons with a running stitch.
After all, tomorrow is another day. No purple! My original plan was to join the rows with purple batik hexes. Yesterday I printed and cut 78 cream batik hexes – thank goodness there was enough fabric left over – enough for those plus the half hexes and the 4 corner ones. This is it Unless I hear from somebody about a change. Test block finished. 4 ways to simplify quilts with triangles. One of the trickiest skills to master in quiltmaking is the good ol’ quilt triangle. You might even say that mastering triangles is the skill that launches quilters beyond beginner status.
Quilt patterns with triangles make up the bulk of history’s quilt designs—and until the 1980s when the rotary cutter made its debut, quilts with triangles were hand-cut with scissors and sewn with only a steady hand and your stitching wits to steer you. (Man, those quilters were tough!) If you’ve ever shied away from a quilt because of triangles, diamonds, or other pointy shapes, you might be surprised at how the techniques below can simplify piecing. Ready to learn a few triangle tricks?
Half-square triangles—on the double From Better Together by Karen Sievert It’s no wonder beginners start with squares and rectangles to make their first quilts—the thought of cutting and sewing stretchy triangles can make some newbies break out in a sweat. “Roman Tile” 1. 2. 3. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. “Snowy Peaks” “Lost Ships” McCall's Quilting Blog. Diane Harris designed the Very Merry pattern for the latest issue of McCall’s Quick Quilts, October/November 2017. Diane is a past editor of Quiltmaker, recently launching her own company, Stash Bandit.
Go to stashbandit.net to see more of what’s happening with Diane. In the meantime, we asked her to tell us the design backstory of Very Merry. Before I was a quilt designer, I often wondered how others came up with original ideas. I think I assumed that quilt designs came out of nowhere, thoroughly developed and polished to perfection. Then about 10 years ago, I read an article in Quilters Newsletter, and I had an epiphany. The article described how one artist had struggled, made, unmade, worked, reworked, sewn, unsewn, conceived, trashed, remade again and eventually finished her one-of-a-kind quilt. It takes time and effort to bring them up, to see them through to fruition. The idea for Very Merry came to me in bits and pieces, and that’s what I’m sharing today. The takeaways for quilters: Quilty Pleasures Blog. The Quiltmaker Scrap Squad is a select group of six QM readers who take one pattern from each issue and make scrappy versions of it to inspire others.
You can see slideshows of past Scrap Squad projects. Mountain Morning is the featured quilt from this issue. It was designed by Jocelyn Ueng who is with It’s Sew Emma, and made in Bali Batiks from preferred partners Hoffman California Fabrics. Today’s featured quilt is by Beth Helfter from Pepperell, Massachusetts. Beth blogs at Quilting Hottie Haven. You’ll hear from Beth in her own words below. I was likely the only quilter in the world who had not yet made a chevron quilt. Mountain Morning seemed simple enough, though, so I dove into making the design more about me. After several tries at relocating them in the design, I decided to just take them out, and immediately the possibility of a THIRD size of chevron strip (light blues and yellows) presented itself. My first thoughts on a design. I liked it okay, but it was a just little “meh.” Blogs - Quilters Club of America.
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