Tutorials. Pages Tutorials Quilts & Quilt BlocksQuilting SkillsSewing SkillsProjects Email ThisBlogThis! Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest 24 comments: KatieQJanuary 8, 2012 at 10:03 AMThank you for posting so many lovely tutorials.ReplyDeleteAnonymousFebruary 24, 2012 at 3:30 AMI love your tuts. they are very well done and so helpful. Load more... Home. Scrappy Mama's Bag. Tis a season for finishes, it seams! Which is good because I have a very long list of projects I'd like to start... today? It's always a joy to see the finished quilty goodness piling up. So here's my mama's bag all ready to wear. Ta da! I finished my purse with leather handles , thanks to your recommendations. I hand stitched these 24" handles to my finished purse with black button thread through the pre-punched holes. I added 3 pockets to the lining before assembling. So, another quilted purse for me to wear and love, day in and day out.
Here in the States today is election day. Book. I don't know how that could have happened! And my friend Ruth at Sew Love Fabrics sent 2 charm packs as a surprise birthday gift to Aria. Verykerryberry: Oakshott Liberty Love. Months back, Oakshott fabrics were kind enough to send me a stack of Impressions, a set of 16 colours all shot with a white warp (vertical) thread and I immediately knew my plan, starting with some Liberty lawn from Jo's shop- she lives close by so I got personal delivery. The next part of my plan was Alexia Abegg's Green Bee Diamond Ring Quilt Pattern available here. I remember seeing this pattern in multiple photographs a few quilt markets ago and I knew it was perfect for this- big cuts of fabric that will allow the prints and the colours to shine. Liberty and Oakshott are a similar weight so this marriage is a happy one.
The Liberty is more densely woven but they play together very nicely. The background fabric is one of my favourites: Kaufman Quilter's linen in grey which has an etched crosshatch linen style pattern on it but is soft quilting cotton, very quiet but it says just enough. You can see the pencil dot marked with the arrow below. Shine Bright: Free Matching Mini Tutorial - Love Patchwork & Quilting. Did you love the Shine Bright project by Karen Lewis in issue 39? As an added bonus she put together an extra tutorial to use up the colourful triangles trimmed from the quilt’s Star Point units to make the most of all that fabric goodness! Read on to learn how… You will need… Print fabric: one hundred and sixty (160) leftover trianglesBacking fabric: 23in x 30inBatting: 23in x 30inBinding fabric: 1/4yd Finished size 18in x 24in approx Notes Seam allowances are 1/4 in, unless otherwise noted.RST = right sides together.Fractions: We love our website but it has a few font restraints when it comes to showing you fractions.
Fabrics used Print fabrics are from the Blueberry Park collection by Karen Lewis and the Carkai collection by Carolyn Friedlander, both for Robert Kaufman. Step 2: Open out and press. Step 4: Arrange the units into five rows of sixteen units each. Step 5: Repeat steps 29–31 of the quilt instructions to quilt and finish the mini quilt. Tallgrass prairie studio: Sewing Hexagons by Machine Without Marking. A couple of things to remember before starting to machine piece hexagons with this method: *Cut your hexagons accurately. Perfectly cut hexagons will help you achieve the precision required for this method. *Sew consistent 1/4" seam allowances. A 1/4" foot or patchwork foot is helpful. I'm able to place my needle 1/4" in by lining up the edge of the fabric with the edge of the presser foot. *You may want to reduce your stitch length to 2.0. *Don't press until all hexagons are sewn. *Be sure not to backstitch into the seam allowance.
*The KEY TO THIS METHOD is your stitching lines. *This method works sewing individual hexagons onto a column or sewing two columns together. *Relax...this really does work. Step 1 Sew a column Start by sewing the hexagons together to make a column. Sew from edge to edge as shown and backstitch at each end. Step 2 - Sew Seam #1 Place a hexagon in the second column as shown. Position the hexagon under the presser foot. There is the stitching line. Lily's Quilts: Fabulously Fast Binding and Fabulously Fast Quilts. Today I am going to show you fabulously fast machine binding. This blogpost is part of the fabulously fast quilting tips blog hop celebrating the release of Amy Smart's book, Fabulously Fast Quilts, a collection of 12 patterns - many that are pre-cut friendly - using quilting short cuts to help you make quilts quickly.
Some of the patterns are faster than others, but all use techniques to help you save time. Some patterns are inspired by traditional designs and methods, and others are something new entirely. From the photos you can see below, you will see that there is a whole host of fabulous designs in there and anyone coming to this year's Fat Quarterly retreat will have the chance to work on one of those designs with Amy. And so on to fabulously fast binding. And here is the view of the back of the binding (confusingly, I am using the same print front and back on this quilt!)
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 5. 6. 7. 8. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. Monday April 28 Tuesday April 29 Wednesday April 30 Friday May 2. Foundation Paper Piecing Part 1. Share this: This article is the fifth in a series of beginner's guides to patchwork and quilting written by Kerry Green If you have always wanted to make a quilt and don’t know where to start, this series of ten posts will include instructions to make basic quilt blocks, introduce simple techniques and combine the blocks to make a small sampler quilt.
Foundation paper piecing is a precision piecing method, which uses paper both as a pattern and a stabiliser, and this helps to produce perfect points and accurate blocks. It’s a straightforward technique once mastered but initially it can seem counter intuitive. What is Foundation Paper Piecing? Foundation paper piecing is a method of sewing quilt blocks, which involves sewing through a paper pattern with the paper upwards, and the fabric positioned underneath. Equipment You don’t need special equipment to foundation paper piece but there are a few basic items that can make life easier. Construction. How to Sew A Jelly Roll Race Quilt - Wise Craft Handmade.
The jelly roll race quilt. Maybe you’ve heard of it? If you haven’t, you’re in for a treat, because it is, quite possibly, one of the fastest quilt tops you will ever make! I made mine in an hour once I cut my own strips. I was looking for a project to practice free motion quilting doodle flowers on (I’m still doodling flowers on everything), and this seemed perfect for that. I thought I’d share how I made mine in case you’d like to make one. A “jelly roll” of fabric is literally a roll of 2 1/2″ x 44″ pre-cut strips of fabric, and a roll usually has 30-40 strips.
These are usually created and sold to feature prints in a particular line (one or more strip of each print included) or groups of, say, coordinating solids. I added in a few jelly roll strips from Denyse Schmidt’s Chicopee line which I bought at her workshop last summer. Jelly Roll Race Quilt Instructions 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. I spent the afternoon doodle stitching/quilting away.
Quilt Binding - How to Turn the Corner Part I - Pinning. Tallgrass prairie studio: Walking Foot Wednesdays. I get lots of questions about quilting with the walking foot. I love straight line quilting because of the clean, modern feel it gives a quilt and so I do it a lot. A long time ago I did a post called Straight Line Quilting Hints and Tips which is a good introduction to quilting with a walking foot, but since then I've learned so much more and I'd like to share what I've learned in a new series of posts I'm calling "Walking Foot Wednesdays. " I'm thinking about exploring the following topics based on the questions I've gotten from readers and from my walking foot quilting experiences. Here are my ideas: 1. What is a walking foot? 2. How do I set up my quilting space to create a successful quilting experience. 3. What is the best way to move your quilt through a home sewing machine? 4. How to channel quilting and grid quilt without going crazy. 5.
What are some options for going outside of the box with straight line quilting? 6. 7. 8. Yes we can. 9. 10. Oh and the winner!!!