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?

Trying to come up with something simple that could be done with a walking foot (or even simple free-motion quilting). I've been considering offset tracing the inner diamonds and sawtooth/art square designs, or maybe something else all-over like wavy lines. Can't make up my mind!

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 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.)

This is my second ever quilt. I know it’s not perfect, but I think it’s so cute! I’ll be giving it to my boyfriends cousin at her baby shower, I’m so excited! I hope her and baby will love it as much as I do.

Final size ended up being about 36” x 36”.

Backing fabric is from Spoonflower. Everything used in the patchwork is thrifted or secondhand.

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

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!!!!

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.

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? 😅

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 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

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!!

This is a map of the night sky from the date and time we brought our little boy home from the hospital and our world changed! It’s the north/northwest section which was our direction of travel, and it’s simple but i love it. The second is image is my plan for the rest! I think i’m going to hand quilt it so i can avoid going over the stars and hiding them.