Looking for an adorable baby gift bundle? Follow our steps for a whole cloth quilt and a matching stuffed teddy bear. Even if you’re brand new to sewing and quilting, this pair of projects is something you can make quickly and easily.
A bed runner is a decorative throw for the foot of the bed that helps protect a fancier full-size quilt or bedspread. Sit on it or stretch out and place your feet on it. We used ours to show off some very pretty patchwork and quilting.
A lovely patchwork panel meets an ol’ softie fleece panel; they fall in love and become inseparable. That’s the true tale of this beautiful lap blanket: the perfect pair. Love the yarn bows at each intersection!
With a rag quilt, you want your seams to show! After washing and drying, the exposed seams gently fray or ‘rag,’ producing a very soft and cuddly feel – perfect for babies. Our design features unique scalloped outer edges.
Using 10″ Layer Cake squares, you can whip up this cute and cozy lap blanket in a single afternoon. The patchwork is about as basic as you can get, and the quilting is done with hand-sewn buttons. A very beginner-friendly project.
Small and soft; those are the requirements for a “lovie” – a cuddle-up-with-me blanket destined to become an instant favorite and a soothing companion for nap time, story time, or any time a little soft security is needed.
This handsome (and easy) quilt is made up of bright, bold geometrics. We added a custom monogram to a bottom corner square to personalize the project and make it a cherished keepsake for baby and parents.
Wrap up your favorite someone in this snuggly rag quilt with its special “secret admirer” heart appliqué. A rag quilt is sewn together so the seams show on the outside. After washing and drying, the seams begin gently fray or rag.
We based our tutorial on the words we hear whenever we receive questions about this topic: "How do you figure out how much fabric you need?" "How do you cut all the strips?" "How do you sew all the strips together?" "How do you put it on your project so it looks smooth and pretty?"
You’ve promised to make a baby quilt. You’ve had nine months to get it done. Right?! Now, the baby is due in a week! What are you going to do? Our fast, but still adorable, Charm Pack Baby Quilt might be the answer.
We used bold, bright fabrics from Kaffe Fassett to create this bohemian throw. It has a patchwork front bound and backed in super soft sherpa-style fleece – then hand-tied to finish.
On the “Easy Quilting Scale,” the rag quilt ranks right at the top. It’s sewn with the seams exposed, and the whole idea is to create a softly rumpled, very cuddly, wrap-me-up-now result. It’s a great gift idea in fall-tone batiks.
Our Blooming Florals Quilt is a throw size with an expanding half square triangle design that is echoed in the throw’s unique angled corners. We selected and sorted delicate floral colors and motifs, perfectly positioning them from the center out to simulate a flower opening up to the sun. We used 10” layer cake squares
We explain the fundamentals of quilting, including the tools you’ll need, cutting techniques, how to create blocks from basic shapes, piecing tips and techniques, and stitching. Enter at your own risk; quilting can be addictive.
It’s a little bit like the ancient art of origami. You start out with a flat square (or rectangle), and after a few folds, flips, and slices, you have perfect bias strips ready to become custom binding for your next project.
This gorgeous quilted table runner was originally designed to feature the Downton Abbey fabric collection from Andover Fabrics. However, the traditional patchwork star design is one that would work well with any number of current quilting cotton collections – especially ones that feature a similar palette of both dark and light colors and a selection
A cheater quilt is one in which the top fabric is pre-printed with a patchwork design, allowing you to skip the piecing. It’s super fast and easy! As a fun twist, we used a soft piped edge rather than traditional binding.
Make Baby’s First Holiday special with an adorable baby quilt and matching bib. We used traditional 9-patch blocks, but stretched four of the squares within each block into rectangles, resulting in the look of a little wrapped present.
Flying geese blocks combine with the fabric’s vintage motifs to give a beautiful background for free-motion quilting. The variety is a quilter’s dream. Isolate and piece together all the interesting bits into a wonderful collage.
Do you usually turn to quilting cottons or fleece for a throw? Give linen and rayon a try! This lightweight yet warm throw has an absolutely amazing drape. The finishing touch is the swing and sparkle of chainette fringe.
This cute quilt has an intricate-looking pinwheel effect, but it’s just 12 cleverly rotated blocks made up of basic half square triangles. Super beginner friendly! We chose some metallic cotton for a bit of nursery sparkle.
As we enter the final phase of making a quilt, you should be proud of all you've learned thus far. If you think back to Part 1 of this Series, you may have been skeptical about adding "how to quilt" to your sewing toolbox of skills. Now you can see it was simply a case
We're back for the second half of our piecing tutorial – part Four of our Five-part Quilting Basics series. Quilters are very resourceful and innovative. You can see this trait revealed in some of the popular quick-piecing methods that have been developed over time. The mindset behind each is to save thread and/or time. They
In quilting, there are special techniques used to sew patchwork pieces into blocks, then assemble those blocks into a quilt. The precise execution of these techniques is paramount to a beautifully finished quilt. It's similar to putting together a puzzle; each piece has to fit perfectly in order for the larger picture to come into view.
You saw the appropriate tools and other stuff needed for basic quilting in Part 1. You leaned how to properly (and safely) rotary cut your fabric for patchwork piecing in Part 2. Now, you get to discover how to use those pieces you cut (squares, rectangles and triangles) to create some of the most popular
Quilts start out as lots o' little pieces. So it makes sense the first thing you should learn about in quilting is how to cut your fabric! If you ask any quilter what she/he feels is the best cutting tool for the job, the answer will be: a rotary cutter. Many compare it to a
The word "quilt" or "quilting" has many different meanings. It's a special word because it can be both a noun and a verb. Quilting can describe the overall craft itself. What type of sewing do you like? I like to quilt, or I like quilting. It can also mean the act of quilting, which is
This throw is a wonderful way to use bold motifs. The patchwork is very easy, and the quilting is done with a 9mm decorative stitch at each seam line, adding an extra splash of color and texture and uniting all the floral blocks.
We use binding on lots of projects and we get lots of compliments about how nice it looks. We also get lots of questions about how we managed to pull that off! This tutorial summarizes the binding basics you need to know.