Millefiori quilts

Katie on Instagram: "Better look at my finished La Passacaglia quilt top. She is 80 inches by 90 inches and I have NO IDEA where I’m gonna put her when she’s done. I’m so thrilled with how this quilt turned out and I’m forever thankful to Pink Door Fabrics for organizing this Block of the Month program. This pattern is by Willyne Hammerstein from her book Millefiori Quilts. It’s called millefiori because it looks like Venetian millefiori glass, literally translated to “thousand flowers.” It…

I’ve been in touch with numerous English Paper Piecers working on the La Passacaglia Quilt, and they have all said that getting started was the hardest part. In this post Ill provide a step by step…

I'll start with my quilt, which was the Millefiori Quilt Along pattern by Katja Marek based on her book The New Hexagon. There were five quilts in the Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum exhibit based on this pattern! I love how different they all are! Enjoy!!

Today's quilts include all the quilts I saw in the RMQM exhibit made from patterns by Willyne Hammerstein. Probably the most "famous" pattern of hers is La Passacaglia, which include all the quilts shown here except the second one. A couple of these ladies said this was their first attempt at English Paper Piecing. I'm not sure they could've picked a more difficult pattern! I have this book and the "papers" and have yet to start it. Some of the pieces are very tiny! I love all of these…

= free pattern = Poinsettia Millefiori Quilt, 44"x59", by Marinda Stewart for Michael Miller Fabrics

When I saw Willyne Hammerstein’s quilt many years ago, I knew I had to do it! The pattern was beautiful, although I didn’t really like the c...

Have you ever made a “One Block Wonder”? To make one you place 6 layers of the same fabric on top of each other lining up the patterns exactly, and then cut them into triangles then sew each group…

At a rate of about one rosette every two months, I’ve finally finished my second! With saturated red-oranges, prints resembling snowflakes (at least if you squint), and wintery novelty prints…

About a month ago I dug out my Cobweb Quilt that I'd started in a class with Chris Kenna on 1 April 2017 - almost exactly a year ago. This pattern is by Chris Kenna and I've included details of how to get a copy further down this post. Chris Kenna's Copbweb quilt hanging up I'd made quite a few cobwebs at our guild's retreat in July 2017, but I really hadn't touched it since. So I decided to sew a few more cobwebs while I took a break between other WIPs. You're possibly thinking that these…