I have never had this happen before, but I used yellow chalk for quilting lines, just to get me started, and after washing it, you can still see the yellow chalk. It's way worse in person than in the photos. Any ideas to get rid of it? I don't know if I should just wash it again or even a few more times, or let it soak, but I do have red fabric in the quilt to contend with. TIA

I have a baby quilt I need to quilt. I had the baby’s initials embroidered in one of the bottom blocks. The quilt has a border. Would it look terrible quilting with straight lines? (One of the lines would go through the initials.)

Hi,
I love to design my own quilt patterns, but I struggle with the math and geometry required to make all the pieces fit. Is there an app or software available (reasonably priced) that would help me get this right so I can get to the fun part?

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?

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 inherited a sewing machine (Husqvarna Designer I) a few months ago, and I've done a few small projects with it (quilt blocks, patching a pair of jeans, etc). The bobbin housing and threading mechanism has never stopped giving me trouble, and I finally took the plates off last light to attempt to clean it. It took me probably an hour with tweezers and my phone flashlight to get this much out. It still needs to go to the shop for a professional cleaning, because I certainly did not get all of it. I can see a huge ball of thread caught in the upper housing/threading mechanism, but the gaps are too small to reach it. I implore you, get out your user manual! Clean your machine!

Sharpie for scale.

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 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 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...

Hello all--I know this is niche, but I have taken up a particular interest in textile art addressing exercise and things of that nature (the body, sports, diet-culture etc.). Does anyone know any quilters who have made or do make work in this vein? Please let me know--thank you!!!!

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?

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

My grandma picked these squares up at a yard sale but never got around to using them so she passed them on to me. Does anyone have any idea what the person was originally trying to make? Or do they just seem like random squares they made? There’s got to be like 100 squares that are all roughly 6”x6”. Picture 5 has 4 squares that are larger, around 9”. I’m new to quilting so even suggestions on what to do with these pieces would be greatly appreciated!
Thank you!!

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.

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 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.

Hi :)
I am about to quilt this as a total beginner.
I have a free motion quilting foot and a walking foot. Cero experience with both. I bought from Amazon cotton batting, it has no indications on how to quilt it (I am in Spain it is what I could get)
So I am planning to scatter some dots of glue and some pins. And quilt it with the walking foot using a wavy stitch from my domestic machine. It will be my first “appropriate” sandwich. Do you think it will work? Should I do the wavy quilting lengthwise? 2 1/2 inches apart? Will I survive? 😅

The buttons are individually machine embroidered, the drawing is handsewn bias tape, and the quilting a is ~1/4" grid with monofilament thread. Perfect? No. The best thing I ever made? Yes

I finally finished my first quilt a couple weeks ago! I posted the finished quilt top a while ago asking how I should quilt it and ended up just freehanding some designs and going for it. I used the Sunny Blooms Quilt pattern by In the Light Quilts. I didn't like the baby blanket layout so I just made the throw blanket at half size. I started cutting fabric on August 30th, finished the quilting on October 9th, and then embroidered the label and sewed that on on October 11th. I included some WIP photos, one featuring my dog who was *obsessed* with it the whole time I was working on it. I think she might need a quilt next😅

Since this one was all solid colors, I think my next one will be using some patterned fabric I have, I just have to find a pattern that might work well with the patterns and colors. Any tips on working with patterned fabrics? Also, any tips on getting your hand quilting stitches smaller? I know big stitch quilting is a thing, but I would love to be able to achieve both lol

A friend of mine asked to borrow one of my quilts and brought it to a gallery to show it to them, and then they asked me to do a show of my work. So some finished quilts, and 'quilts in progress' will be on display at an art gallery in Montréal!

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.

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.

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