Many quilters like English paper piecing and the hexagon is one of the most popular shapes. You can buy already-cut hexagon templates. But if you need only a few or an unusual size, or if you don't want to wait 2 weeks to receive them (my case), or if you want to save money, you have to make your own templates. Cutting templates one by one is boring task and it takes ages! I will show you … [Read more...]
Free Motion Quilting Tips II
When I bought my sewing machine,11 years ago, I wanted that someone be able to show me all the secrets so I can stitch easily. But no one could do that for me because one of the secrets is PRACTICE. In my first years of quilting, I did not have major problems with piecing or straight line quilting (with a walking foot) but free motion quilting was a real challenge to me. So here are a … [Read more...]
How to sew hexagon cubes quilts using English Paper Piecing
Do you need one more reason to paper piece hexagons? Try some hexagon cubes- learn how to sew two different cube designs. You could use this design.... or this one: 3D Effect Guaranteed! The quilt should be a wall hanging, it has to hang on the wall so that you can see the 3D effect. You can make how many cubes you want. A quick project needs only three … [Read more...]
Dresden Fan Plate tutorial or from circle to octagon!
Dresden Fan Plate tutorial- learn to transform a circle block into an octagon then into a square. No applique is required for finishing the block. I wanted octagons because it is easy to turn them into squares. My Dresden fan blocks have 24 wedges. I use a 15 degree fan ruler to make them. An octagon has 8 sides so all I have to do is to turn 3 sides of the dresden block into 1. The … [Read more...]
Easy blocks
I will have a busy summer and there is not a chance to finish the quilt for my husband. I want to make two pillows to complement the quilt, I am happy that I made their center! I need bigger blocks so that I will add some strips to them. I used a striped fabric, I cut four strips and I stacked them. Fabrics with straight stripes work best. I cut a set of quarter square triangles with … [Read more...]
Tilted squares- patchwork tutorial
Edited: pictures of the finished quilt here ! If you have not made yet tilted blocks, maybe someday you would like to try them, it's fun ! I will show you how to sew the quilt below. Here is the way I pieced this quilt top. The top has 42 (6x7) 12" blocks, 4" borders and measures about 80"x 92" (2x2.3 m). For the center of the blocks I used this striped fabric (Michael Miller) … [Read more...]
Fun with stripes- Quilt Tutorial
Let's have fun creating intricate blocks with stripes! Do you hesitate to buy striped fabric because you don't know what to use it for? Well, buy some and I will show you a few easy ways to create lovely blocks with minimum effort. Lately, I have played a little more with such fabrics and I love them. The fabric I used for this tutorial is a heavy cotton canvas from … [Read more...]
Free Motion Quilting Tips
Here is the promised tutorial on free motion quilting! In my country quilting is unknown to most people that is why I had to learn all by myself. Can you believe that the hardest thing I had to understand was stitching in the ditch? I had no one to tell me “Don’t do this, it is wrong” so I do some things in my own manner. They make my quilting easier and I use them all the time.Here are some … [Read more...]
Quick and easy strip quilt- Tutorial
I made this quilt for my mother's birthday. It took me just 4 days to piece it and quilt it. This is an easy project for a beginner quilter and a very quick quilt for a skilled one. I made the sketch using Electric Quilt. I love Electric Quilt. You can scan your fabric, import them in the program and see how your quilt will look like even before you cut a single piece of fabric. Quilt … [Read more...]
Tutorial strip quilt II
Follow this strip quilt tutorial and sew this quilt with me! I pieced it in a day, I quilted it in the second day and I added the binding in the third day ! Quilt size: 62 x 86 inch; Finished block size: 12 x 12 inch; Number of blocks= 5 x 7 = 35 (if you need a larger quilt, piece more blocks ). This quilt don't have borders; if you need a larger quilt, you might add borders; because you … [Read more...]
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