Category Archives: Quilts

Feb14

Have you made a T-Shirt quilt?

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Have you made a T-Shirt quilt?

T-shirt quilts are a great way to commemorate life events or put all those shirts to good use!  Here’s a couple awesome t-shirt quilts made by Lauren.  Notice the sashing detail that really sets off the t-shirts.  She did a wonderful job stabilizing the t-shirt fabric which makes the quilting easier and with better results.  My usual approach to quilting the T-shirt quilt is to stitch right through the motifs with a medium to large meander.  The quilting adds texture and becomes another element without distracting from the topic of the shirts.  The quilting density is even and makes the quilts very usable.  The batting is Quilter’s Dream Puff which is light and machine wash and dry.

Shadow sashing
Sashing with corner details
Meander adds texture with distracting from shirts
Medium large meander

Feb13

Double Nickel Quilt Challenge

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Double Nickel Quilt Challenge

Here’s a couple quilts from Candy’s Double Nickel Quilt Challenge.  Check out her blog for more information.  “Nickel I Spy #2”  is a great kids quilt!  The Bubbles pantograph and King Tut variegated thread are the perfect compliments to  a fun quilt like this.

Rows of color
Bubbles pantograph
Great for fabric too awesome to cut!
Feather border and ziggaty center

The Ziggaty Zag quilt is awesome!  For this wallhanging some simple feathers in the border and stitching to mimic the center are the best quilting choices.

Jan27

Stacked Squares quilt

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Stacked Squares quilt

It’s really great when I get to quilt one of my own quilts, especially when they are gifts for special people.  This is a fun, fast quilt to put together from a pre-cut kit available at  The Fabric Stash Club.   I think I have made 8 of these and still don’t have one for myself!  You just stack the squares together and stitch around the edges.   Wavy outline quilting and the Quilter’s Dream 100% cotton select batting adds lots of texture.  The completed quilt is machine washed and dried giving it that antique, soft and cuddly look.   The edges are going to fray which gives it a tattered look.  The combination of 100% cotton batting and homespun or yarn dyed flannel are necessary for that effect.  Just for fun, I added a greeting to the borders congratulating the recipients on their 50th wedding anniversary!

Joe & Carole’s Anniversary quilt
Frayed edges
Border greeting detail
Thread writing
Wavy outline and loops
Great texture
Wavy quilting design
Jan24

Another fun pantograph

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Another fun pantograph

Here’s another fun pantograph designed by Sue Schmeiden.  It’s called Stars and Loops and looks great on Betty’s Boy Scout theme quilt for an overall pattern.  The back is flannel so the quilting really shows well along with the gold thread.

Betty s Boy Scout quilt
Flannel back
Boy Scout quilt front detail
Stars and Loops
Jan20

Custom vs E2E

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Custom vs E2E

“So, how do you want it quilted?” Should you go for the custom quilting or the economical edge to edge quilting? Sometimes it’s the quilts decision! Here are 2 quilts from the same customer using the same fabrics, same batting and about the same size. One quilt is custom, one quilt is E2E and when you look at the pictures you’ll see why. The overall quilting adds texture and detail and is the best quilting option for quilt 1. The custom quilting with border, block, sashing and background fill designs, along with 3 different thread choices really makes this quilt stand out, making it the best option for quilt 2.

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