Today is National Quilt Day, a day to celebrate our love of quilting and the heritage we leave to the next generation of quilters. You can read about the history, and download this year’s free pattern here - http://www.nqaquilts.org/nqd/ On a quilting forum recently, a member asked us to show our first, best and last …
Category: Quilting
Link party
I have found so many neat things on other blogs, and the latest blog to capture my attention is Sew Fresh Quilts. There are interesting block tutorials, quilt-a-longs, a wonderful quilt gallery, and lots of participants in the link party. Naturally I had to add this one to my ever growing list on Bloglovin! Check …
Spring Floral and McTavish Monday
I made progress on two things this past week. I had decided to do some McTavishing on the Spring Floral quilt, but after viewing the video, reading through the book, and viewing the DVD, I decided that would be too dense for what I had in mind. So, I quilted up the Spring Floral freehand …
Bleeding colors on quilts
At some point, nearly every quilter will face the problem of a bleeding fabric in a finished quilt. Some of us try to minimize this by pre-washing, but there are times when that isn't possible, like a block of the month club where you only get a few little bits. Other times, pre-washing just didn't …
Spring Floral Wall Quilt – Part 1
One of my UFO Challenge projects for the year is to get a spring floral wall hanging done, something that will last partway into summer, and something to put up between St. Patrick's Day and Easter, if like this year they are pretty far apart. So, started out with a couple of florals and found …
Spring Floral Wall Quilt – Part 2
OK, so now, I am going to use proper border attaching method of measure and sew. See the top of the blog for a full tutorial on this process. The quilt is supposed to have a design that is shared, the floral squares all share the HSTs, so the stars blend into each other. Neat, …
Coffee Bag Project
I was in a cute quilt shop while on my last vacation, and found an adorable coffee motif panel. It had six little mug rug size motifs. I had to have it along with a yard of the coffee bean fabric that went with it. Getting home, I pulled out my coffee color stash …
Mitering Printed Borders
One of the comments on my tutorial on borders was a question on how to miter with prints. Luckily, the question came at a good time when I had just had two of my friends over to help me do just that. I still had some of the fabric, and I could take some close …
Binding Color – Match or Contrast?
Since I now have three quilts mostly the same, I decided to continue the experiment in color with the binding. If you missed the beginning of this series, click on this link to see the thread color experiment. I think most of the time I tend to put a contrasting binding on a quilt because …
Thread color experiment
Standing in my French inspired kitchen, I was thinking about the toile quilt I was in the process of making. The pie safe in the middle of the kitchen is green, and it occurred to me that the toile would make a perfect addition to the décor. After all, toile is a French word meaning …
From My Carolina Home 