Quilt motifs

Free motion quilting sampler block using quilt as you go technique. Post series include tutorials on how to free motion quilt and assembling quilt as you go

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From the American Folk Art Museum Blogged here: On The Design Wall

I'm teaching a Free Motion Quilting class starting in April at my LQS, Heartstrings and Heirlooms. I finished up the class sample over the weekend. In the class the students will do larger samples, but I needed a small book of designs to advertise the class. As you can see in the above end view, I used three different types of batting for my sample book - Quilter's Dream 100% Cotton, Hobbs 80/20 (80% cotton and 20% polyester), and a 100% wool. I used a tutorial from a recent Quilting Arts…

Free-motion quilting design ideas with tutorial for each design. Try out different free-motion quilting designs to make your quilt unique!

As soon as I saw the 2020 Pantone color of the year, I knew i had to create a quilt inspired by it! The challenge was finding a design that was both soothing and energizing, restful and fun! The color reminded me so much of the buildings of Santorini, and what sums up a combination of relaxation and

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Sunbeam And while we are on the topic of sampler blocks... The Denver Post is posting a vintage quilt pattern regularly for a few weeks on their Archive Blog. The blocks are from a sampler from Ruby Short McKim's column, originally published in 1931. Check it here: http://blogs.denverpost.com/library/tag/quilt-patterns/ McKim was a trailblazer in 20th-century quilt pattern design and publishing. She syndicated patterns to newspapers from the teens into the thirties. I'm most familiar with…

Erin Grogan of Love Sew Modern on Instagram: "I’ve just finished unpacking everything from International Quilt Market and thought I’d celebrate by sharing a pattern from my book, Retro Curved Pieced Quilts. This is Darling Daisies. When making this quilt I kept referring to it as Grandmother’s Kitchen. It reminds me of coming together around the kitchen table and catching up with family over something warm to drink and sweat to eat. Fabric is @artgalleryfabrics Pure Solids Photography by…