Quilting, cooking, reading books, gardening, crafting, sewing, photography and more
Update - The posts with the free pattern in several steps has been removed. See my Buy My Patterns Page to purchase the Pumpkin Star pattern. Backside Fabrics gave me this gorgeous wide backing fabric to use for this project, called Brushline by Andover in the Coffee color. Next, the decision on batting, this time …
Continue reading Autumn Jubilee Quilt Along – Finishing the Quilt
It must just be my year for bad borders. I am not going to reveal where this particular quilt came from, I work with several charity quilter groups to do Quilts of Valor, and I do not want to embarrass anyone. I am reasonably sure that this piecer doesn't read my blog, and I want …
Recently, I was discussing borders with a lady after her quilt was done. I asked if she had measured the borders and she said yes she had. But they were too big, and it occurred to me that I have not yet talked about why you need to measure a certain way to get the …
This past week, I had the privilege of quilting a beautiful quilt for a new quilter. Although there were a few issues with the quilt top, I have to say I had a most pleasant experience. This lady was so eager to learn the right way to do things, she was a delight to quilt …
A generous donation was made to our local quilt group of a number of kits from a collection called French Cottage. Each kit made one block. Our program chair brought them to a meeting, and asked for volunteers to make the blocks. I think there were a couple of dozen block kits, and I took …
Now, several more charity quilts later, I promised to show you how I fix some other common problems with longarm quilting. Once again, the main reason for this post is to educate those that send quilts to a longarmer, but new longarmers may find something useful here. First up, the issue of using sheets as …
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 …
From My Carolina Home 