I get emailed about free quilt patterns very often, so I thought go a bit more into this topic today. I'm planning something similar with beginner quilt pattern, but that's a little later. There are lots of patterns online that you can get free, just do a google search and you'll find yourself an impressive lists of lots and lots of free quilt patterns. Today I'll be pointing to a ...
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Star Dance Quilt – #2 – Quilt Reveal
You might remember that last summer (2018), I hosted a quilt along for Coats + Clark over on their Make it Coats blog. Such a great experience that was and I learned so much from working with such a big company! Fingers crossed I get to do it again. Anyway, I'm getting sidetracked! I made my second version of the Star Dance quilt. You can see the first one here. I was trying to ...
Another Easy Machine Cover – This time for the Juki
Peeps! I am so dying over these machine covers. So many years without one and now I have two of them! One for each of the machines. Absolutely thrilled! Custom Quilt Labels You might remember last week's post with the free pattern for the machine cover, well, I used the same pattern to make this one. I just changed ...
Easy Sewing Machine Cover + Free Pattern
I made myself a machine cover! This is something I've wanted since I first got my machine. So what was that like 11 years ago? Oh, geez. How we let time slide away! Enough of that! Let's dive into all of this, because I've written a pattern and had it tested and voila..... I've got a free PDF pattern for you to make one as well. I'm so excited! Get a ...
Hand Cut Heart Quilt #7 + Free Quilt Pattern – quilt reveal + video tutorial
Today I'm showing off my 7th version of this quilt, all in blue this time, and I'm updating my tutorial of this block. I'm killing it lately with my scrap busting. Making monochromatic quilts is the way for me for this. Here's what I do: I have a basket for each color of my scraps. All the pink and reds have a basket, all the greens, all the blues, each has their own basket. When the ...
A Dresden Quilt #5 – (quilt reveal) + Free Quilt Pattern
Last week I finished my fifth Dresden quilt. This is the second time that I've used small blocks as my background and also the second time that I've done a low volume background. See my last quilt here. I did try some new center methods though.... I can't even begin to describe how excited I am about this particular quilt block. This might be the single best block I've ever made. ...
Emerge Circle – Pineapple Parade Quilt (quilt reveal) + a FREE quilt pattern
Emerge Circle is a group of 11 quilt makers (including myself) dedicated to making quilts for those in need. Our aim is to donate 10 quilts per year. Our circle is part of the bigger group of charity quilters called do. Good Stitches. You can read about it and it’s creator Rachel Hauser here. Every month a different member of our group is Lead Quilter and in charge of deciding on quilt plans ...
Orange Peel Quilt Tutorial
Helloooooo! The past few days I have been working on an Orange Peel quilt. I thought I might share my method. There are 3 ways to make an orange peel quilt: 1. using needle turn applique 2. sewing curves 3. raw edge applique Today we are going to explore method #3. It is easy. It is fast. And it is lovely. The above picture shows my chosen fabrics. The three stacks on the left are ...
How to make a hexagon quilt with half hexies – free quilt pattern – 5 different sizes
Hey, hey! This week is MY week of hexagons. I have cut up 3 different hexagon quilts, one of them is for a custom order you will see in this post. Very scrappy. Two more to come soon, one will be a new pattern. I've been asked for a tutorial and pattern details for this hexagon quilt that uses half hexies. This will be a LONG post, so let's get right to it. No history this ...
