Leah from Day Style Designs shares how to paint on a finished quilt using Shiva Paintstiks. If you are never quite satisfied with the colors in a quilt, be sure and check out this video tutorial and the book where … Read More ...
Candy’s Sew-Scraps-Along quilt
Candy from Quilt Vine made this quilt using only green, brown, purple and orange fabric scraps. It’s modern and cozy all at once. Setting a limit such as a specific color palette can spur creativity. Visit the post to see … Read More ...
Tutorial: Tulip Stitch by Laura
Embellish your next quilting project with beautiful stitched tulips. Laura of Artfabrik shows you how. Go to Thread-u-cation Thursday: Tulip Stitch.… Read More ...
Book giveaway: Picture Piecing
This week the generous folks at Kaye’s Quilting Friends will be giving away this book Picture Piecing: Creating Dynamic Pictorial Quilts by Cynthia England. Burn some scraps and get a photographic look to your quilts to boot. Appropriate for all … Read More ...
Ta Dah!: Baby quilt with points
Liz of Quilterie made this oh so sweet baby quilt. I love the funky pastel blocks finished on the edges with prairie points – 109 prairie points for a 36″ x 46″ quilt. Visit her post to see her first … Read More ...
Tutorial: Girl on a Tree Swing
Aneela shares how she made this modern mini quilt Girl on a Tree Swing at her blog Comfortstitching. Isn’t it magical? I spent a magical day Friday going to two craft fairs in Northwest Arkansas, USA. I tagged along … Read More ...
T-shirt Quilt – Quick and Easy
Jerilynn from Jerisew(s) shares her secret for making T-shirt quilts fast and beautiful. She skips the usual method where you apply interfacing for stabilizing the stretchy fabric for sewing the blocks together. Find out how she makes, I mean prevents … Read More ...
Giveaway: Snippet Sensations
I’m intrigued by this book Snippet Sensations: Fast Fusible Fabric Art by Cindy Walter. We have a local quilter (retired engineer) who creates realistic quilt art of say a house from tiny bits of fabric. I love his work and … Read More ...
Meet a vegan vampire
onja, a pattern maker with a blog called Artisania has a talented husband who originally drew up this nifty Halloween block on a Denny’s napkin. The idea behind it was a comment one of their children made. From this … Read More ...
Tutorial: Dresden Plate quilt block
That Crafty Gemini Vanessa is at it again – generously sharing her know-how. This time it’s Dresden Plate blocks. Get the downloadable tutorial here.
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Sneak peek: Oh, Fransson!’s book
Elizabeth Hartman of Oh, Frannson! fame is the author of the book The Practical Guide to Patchwork
, out this fall. Get a peek at some of the projects over at Stash Books.
Twin Nine Patch quilt
Just out of the oven, check out this quilty Moda Bake Shop recipe Twin Nine Patches. Featuring fabric line Arnold’s Attic and a simple nine patch these fraternal twin blocks are not identical and that’s the beauty of them. … Read More ...
Video: Cheating Needle Turn Applique
Vanessa from The Crafty Gemini shares two simple ways to applique. The second, shown here, is her needle turn applique method that she calls “cheating”. She says, even if you don’t quilt these videos will help you add fun appliques … Read More ...
Bind a quilt the Pat Sloan way
What a happy day it is ’cause over at Pat Sloan’s blog Pat herself has just posted a tutorial with video on how to put a binding on a quilt completely by machine. That’s right, all by machine. The usual … Read More ...
Selvage asterisk block
This asterisk block from Selvage Blog’s sidebar is made from sewing down selvage strips. Karen has a tutorial for the more common pieced approach on her blog. But for this block a one line caption will get you started. Visit … Read More ...
