Quilting Fabric Designs
The oldest, and probably the slowest method of applying a design to fabric is block printing. A design is cut from a piece of wood or clay, then the block is loaded with dye from a felt pad or inked with a roller and pressed onto the fabric. The size of the block determines the size of th ...
- Applique Animals on a Quilt
Each year when my kids were in elementary school, their teachers were the recipients of a quilt. The design for the quilt generally came from an idea that they had, and we converted into a quilt. One year, quilting daughter Stephanie found this Thank You card and decided that it would be ...
- Apple Quilt for a Teacher
Tradition has it that students should bring an apple to a teacher to win her (or his) favor. Why not give your child's teacher an apple they can keep forever, and possibly pass onto a future generation? This quilt with an apple is simple to make and involves every child in the class. Although ...
- Transferring Photos onto Fabric
Q: Hello, I am a casual quilter, or have been, and plan to do more now that my grandkids have moved away and my husband has Alzheimers....in other words staying close to home.... I want to make my grandkids a quilt using pictures from their life as they were growing up....where can I fi ...
- Screen Printing Fabric for Your Quilts
There are so many ways to embellish quilts. If you have quilted for very long, you have probably tried at least one method of embellishing, whether it’s embroidery or thread painting or adding shiny trinkets like beads and rhinestones. But how can you get the latest, trendy grunge embel ...
- Sashiko Quilts and Stitching
Sashiko is a Japanese stitching technique that can be used for embroidery or otherwise reinforcing sewn projects like quilts. The technique is rather simple to master. It’s just a running stitch. As a matter of fact, “sashiko” means “little stabs” in Japanese. That’s exactly what a running ...
- Batik Cat Quilt (and some lessons learned)
This quilt is made from small batik squares that many quilt shops sell in a pack. These were all cat squares. Each kitty square is 4 inches, and I surrounded it with squares and half-square triangles forming a type of Pinwheel Block (called ...
- Two-Color Quilt Blocks
Making a quilt should be a fun and relaxing experience, so choose fabrics that you enjoy working with. Two-color blocks have a unique appeal. To be most effective, choose colors that contrast – white with blue, red or green work well. White with pink, yellow or lavender are nice, but do ...
- Adding Prairie Points to Your Quilt
Prairie Points can make an otherwise simple quilt look absolutely astonishing. Prairie Points are a border of triangles that edge your quilt. They look difficult, but are not too hard at all. The traditional method of creating Prairie Points is an easy one. The best part is that you won’t ...
- A 3-D Rainbow Quilt
When quilting daughter Stephanie was about 6, she drew a picture of a rainbow with a little rose in the corner. One day, I was looking for inspiration for a new quilt and came across the picture. It was a time in quilting when quilts with pleats were popular. Merging the two ideas, I created t ...
- Designing a Clamshell Quilt
I'll admit that for years, I looked at quilts that used a clamshell pattern and just stared wondering how to sew them together - let alone design one. I thought it would be much too difficult for me to stitch together, so I didn't even consider buying a pattern and following someone else's des ...
