Jar quilt

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A strange title for a quilt I know but I was talking to a friend Raewyn about 'Jar' quilts. You probably have seen one or two of them, they...

Main - Free Jar Quilt Patterns - Per Everyone's Requests - http://quilting.about.com/od/quiltpa...uilt-Block.htm http://quilting.about.com/od/quiltpa...ilt-Blocks.htm This is the best pattern that I could find for doing my fruit jar quilt. I have been 'bombarded' with dozens of requests for the pattern. The crate

Finished the borders on the bugs in a jar quilt today. Here is the finished twin bed sized quilt top. I was planning to make the blue border look like a book (jar) case. The blue I finally found to match a few days ago has too much stretch to it and so I decided to use the border I did, because it has almost no stretch and was a little bit heavier cotton. The fabric that started this idea is the outside border and the bug fabric between the rows of jars. It was one piece of fabric that…

Finished quilt size: 36" x 38" Finished block size: 6-1/2" x 8-1/2" Fabric Requirements & Cutting Instructions: Print Fabric: 20 ~ 4 ½” x 6...

This fabric still makes my mouth water. As I mentioned in my post from this morning, JoAnn Fabrics had their irons on sale for 25% off and I had a coupon for 25% off of my total purchase. I spent enough on my total purchase that I saved $71 and the retail price of the iron was only $65......any way I look at that it looks like a free iron! My previous Rowenta, which was about 20 years old, finally died. I had a spare Sunbeam iron that I really wanted to be able to use but it just was too…

Designing our new collection has been a lot of fun. Strawberry Season will be in stores early 2024. Here's the Strawberry Season Lookbook full of good reasons to look forward to spring! I'm so pleased to get to share a free pattern with you! It's the Jam Jar block! And as another bonus, in the instructions, I've given you some guidelines to calculate larger projects. Happy Sewing! ... ... ... ...

I have a confession to make. I have now been quilting for 14 years and I just finished my first quilt with applique on it. I've never appl...

A crafty ode to the kitchen essential.

My quilting laboratory is stocked with all sorts of spooky specimens, thanks to Tula Pink’s De La Luna fabric. Time to make a Halloween jar quilt! I use my mini rotary cutter, the Shark Applicutter, to fussy cut creepy apothecary jars filled with eyeballs, skeletons, bugs, and bats. This is a super fun project with tons of room for creativity, so let your imagination run wild as you concoct this spine-chilling quilt!