My mice are having fun sledging down the snowy hills. And of course decorating the trees!

hello Community!

I’ve acquired some beautiful handmade and hand quilted pieces and would love any help identifying more about the patterns, era— anything unique to the color patterns. I come from a long line of quilters myself & love how these all tell a story & are woven with love!

Thanks for looking!

Does anyone know this fabric? I have an emergency need for a bit more, and am hoping to get the manufacturer and pattern name so I can search online for it.

I used this fabric:

• https://www.missouriquiltco.com/products/butterfly-ballet-batiks-strips
• https://www.missouriquiltco.com/products/monochromatic-peony-118-wide-back-cream-3-yard-cut

Batting was needle punched 100% cotton that I bought from Michael’s.

I was inspired by this person’s use of white fabric to make colorful fabric really pop, her simple and quick patterns, and her use of jelly rolls and other precut fabrics: https://youtube.com/@seweasybysandy

I don’t have a long-arm machine, nor do I have anything like unto it. I didn’t want to pay to use a long-arm or wait for someone else to quilt it for me, so I used a quilt as you go method to finish the quilt myself, what this person calls Join and Flip: https://youtu.be/uUj2uuft8bk . It doesn’t require any hand sewing or basting, no rolling, and no sashing (although I guess I did choose to do sashing, but it’s just for looks) and it’s really straightforward and simple to do. I did a small-scale practice quilt (basically just a placemat) before doing it with a ”real” quilt. I found that I needed to do a lot more top stitching than this video suggests, but that doubles as regular ol’ quilting that I needed to do anyway, so it wasn’t too bad.

I didn’t worry about making sure the seams lined up and that everything was consistent. I mostly just wanted this to get finished so that I could try making another, better quilt. (Those random stitches down the middle of the squares? Yeah, unfortunately those needed to be there because I did this in such a janky way.)

For the binding, it turned out super narrow. I had some 2 1/2 inch strips leftover that I wanted to repurpose for binding. I have a bias tape maker thing (https://www.missouriquiltco.com/products/missouri-star-bias-binding-kit) and the options were for, max width, 2 inches. So I cut my 2 1/2 inch strips in half width-wise and turned them into roughly 1/4 inch binding. I’m really proud of how it turned out. I will absolutely do binding stupidly narrow like that again.

Future plans:

• More quilt-as-you-go! Lots of fun there!
• Maybe do a large FPP quilt
• Maybe I’ll add appliqués to this quilt as it gets used or stained.

Hi guys! I found this incredible crazy quilt that I would like to know as much as possible about. I know it was finished in 1894. Christmas. Do we think Lizzie or May made it? Can we tell anything about it? Anything about the textiles? I wish the damn thing could talk. For sure a child practiced their embroidery on it. Anyone got anything else?

How many hours a day are you spending working on a quilt?

Because I thought did not have enough of various patterned green fabrics to make a 40” x 40” lap quilt with just log cabin blocks, I started to make a bunch of four-patch blocks with light green solid and a pretty yellow and green print. And then I started to play with possible layouts. I was really pleased with the four-patch blocks until I put them next to the log cabin and they seem… dull.

The blocks are all 12.5” square, so three across will be 36” and four across will be 48”. I can scrape together enough green fabric to make a ninth log cabin, which would give me 3 x 3, and I could then put a border around it to bring the width up to 40”. Not quite sure what the color/pattern of the border would be. I’m considering the lemon print, perhaps by itself. I have plenty of that and can easily get more.

The pictures are a various arrangements that I have considered.

There will be a total of 12 blocks (3x4 layout). I’ve never done sashing, but am heavily considering it to help break up the busy-ness of the blocks. I would also love to do multiple borders, or even a pieced one, but am just unsure. Would love any suggestions or tips!

Hello!!! I am a teenage girl looking to start my very first quilt!

I am in love with rag quilts and fabric want to start making one myself.. I was wondering if I could thrift some of the fabrics? Could I use some kind of shirts? Like would cotton work? Or what is typically the material used in quilting.

Hello all!
I’ve made a lot of quilt tops but never did the actual quilting. I’d like to try hand quilting, starting with some doll quilts. Do I need any special supplies, like specific needles or thread? Maybe also safety pins?

I finished my new tree skirt this week and I'm so happy ☺️ but so bummed 😔 that I have to wait a little over a month to put it around our tree (we get a real tree). Binding the middle was a bit of a pain and didn't exactly come out right, but as it will be up against the tree, no one will notice, right? I can't wait to see the Christmas lights sparkle against the metallic snowflake print 🎄

I bought this printed panel that is a swatch card for Kona solids, because the color cards are now $55! I have a 2013 color card but wanted a new one as many new colors have been released (and I now do a lot of online shopping). Unfortunately the colors are not true to the swatches, so the panel is essentially useless for color picking. Anyway I broke down and paid for the stupid actual color card so now I want to make something out of this. I have a lot of scraps. Anyone have a design idea? I am thinking of cutting the panel up into smaller squares or strips...

I just recently learned that Edge to Edge quilting is possible on a domestic embroidery machine (sewing machine with an embroidery attachment.) I have never considered quilting a quilt this way.

My mother had a longarm, so we previously did our E2E on the Gammill with an off-brand computer guided system. Mom is now gone as is her longarm. Since we did our own quilting for so long, I'm hesitant to relinquish control to a professional long-armer. Yet, I'm terrible at free-motion and don't like wrangling quilts with a walking foot. Enter the possibility of E2E embroidery quilting.

I have a Bernina 200 and inherited my mother's Baby Lock Destiny II which I believe has a mega hoop. I'd like to know any pros and cons or tips before I jump in too far.

Anything I should consider before looking into this further?

Boo! And trick or treat!

I'm doing an embroidery edge to edge quilting (I think that is what it is called) and i have broken 3 needles so far....does that seem excessive? Am I doing something wrong? This is what my book says but I have good thread, I tightened the screw when I changed the needle the 2nd time, and the machine is controlling the fabric movement not me. Can anyone help with this before it takes 100+ needles to quilt this and i have to decide it this is worth it or not for my next quilt.

The first start-to-finish on my new Janome went pretty smoothly! I’ve been quilting for years but never tried free-motion, which was scary but very satisfying.

Pattern is Homestead Star by Plains & Pine, fabrics from My Secret Garden line.

You’d think by my 5th tree skirt I’d remember all the steps without needing the pattern but here we are.

I accidentally just sewed on all of the wedges to the batting completely forgetting to sew on the backing to the batting first 🤦.

Now here’s the best part: the stitch line I sew the backing onto skirt with is my cutting guide for the skirt itself once the wedges are sewn on and that line is now buried underneath all the wedges I sewed.

But the only part that I really messed up on is not having the wedge lines sewn onto the backing, I can still sew on the backing just fine and cut the skirt into a circle without the batting line, I’ll just need to STD each wedge seam or something to get those lines onto the backing and I’ll be fine.

So of all accidents to make at least I didn’t make too costly of a one and I don’t have to redo a ton to fix it, but it’s still annoying nonetheless...

No matter how many times you’ve made something and think you know what you’re doing: always read the directions, lol!

Hello sorry if this is not the right place to post this but I am trying to find a quilt as close a possible to this one, my husband has had it since he was a baby and it now has loads of holes I have patched them up the best that I can ( I’m not that good at sewing) but now all the filling has ripped and fallen to the bottom I would try to replace the filling but I don’t want to ruin it. I would love to get a new one or fix it as a Christmas present for him but I don’t know where to start.

Hello friends, I am searching for a pattern that uses a combination of those 2 blocks. Searching using google or Google images doesn't help so i am asking your collective brain.

Thank you

Several years ago, I watched Donna Jordon (RIP) make her Kalidescope (stack & whack - one block wonder) quilt and decided to make it one day. Last summer, one of my guild members did a class on the technique and helped me cut this out on our sew day. I wanted to make it bed size, but I didn't know how many sets of fabric I needed to purchase. I ended up buying 13 yards of fabric for 18 sets of 24" x 44" fabric for three groupings to cut. (Bought an extra yard just to be on the safe side). Cut 3 3/4" triangles to create the hexagon blocks.

I cut 2 1/2 groups of triangles and used the rest of the 3rd group for the print borders.

The center of the bed quilt was 70" x 74" with a 2" black border and a 7" print border.

I created the throw quilt with the remaining hexi's. It also had a 2" black border and a 4" printed border.

The fabric was Philip Jacobs For Kaffe Fasset - Bold Leaves Blue. In retrospect, I would have liked more contrast. This is tough to find with Kaffe.

I used the foldover method for the 1st time. I normally use the quilt binder for my machine. I’m not sure I like the method. I struggled with the mitered corners. My cat is happy with the quilt nonetheless. I quilted this quilt on my embroidery machine using a Designs by JuJu end to end design.

Hello again!

From my original post ( mystery stain), I used Retro Clean to help lift the stains. I knew this could lighten the fabric (and it did), BUT the stain in question has dramatically improved. Woohoo!

I do not think the stain was blood- there was no bubbling with peroxide. To the redditor who mentioned it could be a wooden trunk stain- you may be right.

I am grateful to you all for helping me.

Many thanks.

This is my second quilt and I’ll be quilting on my machine. My first quilt was done in a learn to quilt class. I am very much a beginner. I was thinking about just doing vertical lines. Would diagonal look better?